Data Privacy and Policy Lead

ABOUT AMGEN

Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases, and make people’s lives easier, fuller and longer. We discover, develop, manufacture and deliver innovative medicines to help millions of patients. Amgen helped establish the biotechnology industry more than 40 years ago and remains on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what’s known today.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Role Description:

The Data Privacy and Policy Lead will be responsible for defining, operationalizing, and monitoring data access controls to ensure only authorized users and AI agents have access to sensitive data.  He/she will define frameworks to identify sensitive data across the enterprise and will work closely with the Data Governance team to ensure all assets are properly classified.   He/She will coordinate activities at the tactical level, interpreting Enterprise Data Council direction and defining operational level impact deliverables and actions to build secure data foundations supporting the vision of democratizing data with proper security controls.  The Data Privacy and Policy Lead will partner with the Enterprise Data Office, senior leadership, data governance functional leads, and Chief Privacy Officer to protect sensitive data. He/she will establish and enforce data access controls and policies to accelerate access to data in a secure scalable environment.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for co-developing frameworks, in partnership with Enterprise Data Management Platforms team, to enable technology to discover, tag, and generate metadata to manage data access controls.
• Manage a team of Data Governance Specialists and Data Stewards– directly or in a matrix organization structure.
• Responsible for operationalizing the data access controls and in partnership with functional data owners and technology teams, ensure data access controls, compliance with privacy and security regulations are enforced.
• Maintain policies and ensures compliance with data privacy, security, and regulatory policies
• Publish metrics to measure effectiveness and drive adoption of Data Access policies and standards, that will be applied to mitigate identified risks across the data lifecycle (e.g., capture / production, aggregation / processing, sharing, reporting / consumption). ​

Functional Skills:

Must-Have Skills:

• Technical data management skills with in-depth knowledge of Pharma data regulations.
• Aware of industry trends and priorities and can apply to governance and policies.

• In-depth knowledge and experience with data masking, data access controls, and technologies to enable a scalable operating model.
• Experience with data products development life cycle, including the enablement of data dictionaries, business glossary to increase data products reusability and data literacy.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience managing industry external data assets (e.g. Claims, EHR, etc.)
• Ability to successfully execute complex projects in a fast-paced environment and in managing multiple priorities effectively.
• Ability to manage projects or departmental budgets.
• Experience with modelling tools (e.g., Visio).
• Basic programming skills, experience in data visualization and data modeling tools.
• Experience working with agile development methodologies such as Scaled Agile.

Soft Skills:

• Ability to build business relationships and understand end-to-end data use and needs.
• Excellent interpersonal skills (team player). People management skills either in matrix or direct line function.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully.
• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals
• Good presentation and public speaking skills.
• Strong attention to detail, quality, time management and customer focus.

Basic Qualifications:

• 12 to 15 years of Information Systems experience
• 4 years of managerial experience directly managing people and leadership experience leading teams, projects, or programs. ​

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with 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 and accommodation.