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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

Role Description:

In this vital role, you will develop data & analytics capabilities for the Global Quality organization. In this role, you will lead technical delivery as part of a team of data engineers and software engineers. The team will rely on your leadership to own and refine the vision, feature prioritization, partner alignment, and experience leading solution delivery for Amgen. You will drive the software engineering side of the product release and will deliver for outcomes.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead delivery of overall product and product features from concept to end of life management of the product team, comprised of engineers, product owners, and data scientists to ensure that business, quality, and functional goals are met with each product release

• Drives excellence and quality for product releases, collaborating with partner teams

• Hands-on experience with rapid prototyping and can quickly translate concepts into working code

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers

• Incorporate and prioritize feature requests into product roadmap; Able to translate roadmap into execution

• Design and implement usability, quality, and delivery of a product or feature

• Plan releases and upgrades with no impacts to business

• Hands on expertise in driving quality and best in class Agile engineering practices

• Encourage and motivate the product team to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency

• Manages progress of work and addresses production issues during sprints

• Communication with partners to make sure goals are clear and the vision is aligned with business objectives

• Direct management and staff development of team members

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree with 4 to 6years of experience related field OR

• Bachelor’s degree with 6 to 8 years of experience in related field OR

• Diploma with 8 - 12 years of experience in related field.

Must-Have Skills:

• Experience in people management and leading matrixed teams, and passion for mentorship, culture and fostering the development of talent.

• Thorough understanding of modern web application development and delivery, Gen AI applications development, data integration and enterprise data fabric concepts, methodologies, and technologies (e.g. AWS technologies, Databricks)

• Prior hands-on experience with full-stack development, including back-end web and APIs using infrastructure cloud services (AWS preferred) and cloud-native tools and design patterns (Containers, Serverless, Docker, etc).

• Demonstrated experience in navigating matrix organization and leading change.

• Define success metrics for developer productivity metrics; on a monthly/quarterly basis analyze how the product team is performing against established KPI’s.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong influencing skills, influence stakeholders and be able to balance priorities

• Prior experience in vendor management

• Prior experience in biotechnology or pharma industry

Professional Certifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred)

• Certified DevOps Engineer (preferred)

• Certified Agile Leader or similar (preferred)

Soft Skills:

• Strong desire for continuous learning to pick new tools/technologies.

• High attention to detail is essential with critical thinking ability

• Should be an active contributor to technological communities/forums

• Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices.

• Influences and energizes others toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable

• Established habit of proactive thinking and behavior and the desire and ability to self-start/learn and apply new technologies

• Excellent organizational and time-management skills

• 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

• Strong presentation and public speaking skills

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.

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 an accommodation.

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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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.