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Information Systems

Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

What you will do

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• Responsibility to handle and be responsible for the development of robust data and analytic solutions, while mentoring and guiding a team of data engineers. You will be responsible for leading the development, implementation, and management of enterprise-level data and analytics applications that support the organization's data-driven critical initiatives. You will continuously strive for innovation in the technologies and practices used for data engineering and develop a team of expert data engineers. This role will closely collaborate with counterparts in US and EU. You will collaborate with multi-functional teams, including, platform, functional IT, and business partners, to ensure that the solutions that are built align with business goals and are scalable, secure, and efficient.

• Leads the planning, execution, and delivery of data and analytics solutions, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget.

• Is responsible for the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, high-performance data and analytic solutions (applications) that include data analysis, data ingestion, data transformation (data pipelines), and analytics.

• Develop and manage project plans, timelines, and budgets, and communicate progress to partners regularly.

• Manage the RunOps for data pipelines and analytics solutions.

• Build and feed strong relationships with partners, emphasizing value-focused engagement and partnership to align data initiatives with broader business goals.

• Lead and empower a hard-working data engineering team to deliver exceptional results.

• Provide expert guidance and mentorship to the data engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation and standard methodologies.

• Collaborate with counterparts in US and EU and work with business functions, functional IT teams, and others to understand their data needs and ensure the solutions meet the requirements.

• Engage with business partners to understand their needs and priorities, ensuring that data and analytics solutions built deliver real value and meet business objectives.

• Drive adoption of the data and analytics solutions by partnering with the business stakeholders and functional IT teams in rolling out organizational change, trainings, communications, etc.

• Stay abreast of emerging data technologies and explore opportunities for innovation.

• Talent Growth & People Leadership: Lead, mentor, and manage a hard-working team of engineers, fostering an environment that encourages learning, collaboration, and innovation. Focus on nurturing future leaders and providing growth opportunities through coaching, training, and mentorship.

• Recruitment & Team Expansion: Develop a comprehensive talent strategy that includes recruitment, retention, onboarding, and career development and build a diverse and inclusive team that drives innovation, aligns with Amgen's culture and values, and delivers business priorities

• Organizational Leadership: Work closely with senior leaders within the function and across the Amgen India site to align engineering goals with broader organizational objectives and demonstrate leadership by contributing to strategic discussions

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree and 8 to 10 years of computer science and engineering preferred, other Engineering field experience will be considered OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 10 to 14 years of computer science and engineering preferred, other Engineering field experience will be considered OR

• Diploma and 14 to 18 years of computer science and engineering preferred, other Engineering field experience will be considered

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience managing a team of data engineers.

• 5+ years of experience in leading enterprise scale data and analytics solutions development.

• Demonstrated proficiency in using cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for data engineering solutions. Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles and cost optimization strategies. Experience using Databricks, Snowflake, Python, PowerBI, Tableau.

• Proven ability to lead and develop hard-working data engineering teams.

• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills to address sophisticated data challenges.

• Excellent leadership and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Prior experience in data modeling especially star-schema modeling concepts.

• Familiarity with ontologies, information modeling, and graph databases.

• Experience working with agile development methodologies such as Scaled Agile.

• Experienced with software engineering best-practices, including but not limited to version control (Git, Subversion, etc.), CI/CD (Jenkins, Maven etc.), automated unit testing, and Dev Ops.

Education and Professional Certifications

• SAFe for Teams certification (preferred)

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

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As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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