Senior Associate Salesforce Developer - Biological Studies

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

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions for Research scientists. Additionally, it involves automating operations, monitoring system health, and responding to incidents to minimize downtime. You will join a multi-functional team of scientists and software professionals that enables technology and data capabilities to evaluate drug candidates and assess their abilities to affect the biology of drug targets. This team implements scientific software platforms that enable the capture, analysis, storage, and report of in vitro assays and in vivo / pre-clinical studies as well as those that manage compound inventories / biological sample banks. The ideal candidate possesses experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, hands-on Salesforce and Mulesoft experience.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Support and implement automation solutions using Flows, Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC) and Agentforce

• Own critical development items and work closely with the team to ensure continuity and timely resolution of high-priority items

• Maintain, monitor, and support production and non-production Salesforce environments

• Apply hands-on experience and best practices to build Salesforce applications, ensuring compliance with security protocols such as Organization-Wide Default, sharing patterns, and permissions

• Handle and coordinate all aspects of the release process using Copado, including pipeline configuration, code integration, version control, deployment planning, and post-release validation

• Use Copado’s continuous integration and delivery capabilities to streamline deployments, maintain environment consistency, and ensure traceability

• Manage and coordinate all aspects of the release process, including code integration, sandbox refreshes, deployment planning, and post-release support

• Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of technical solutions, following Amgen's SAFe agile development processes and industry standard methodologies

• Maintain up-to-date technical documentation including design and build specifications, configuration logs, and deployment artifacts for audit and compliance purposes

• Perform code reviews to ensure adherence to security, scalability, accessibility, performance standards and compliance with Vera validation standards

• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to implement security protocols, ensure platform security posture, respond to vulnerabilities and audit findings and alignment with Amgen’s governance, security, and compliance frameworks

• Deploy and validate code in development and QA environments using Copado pipelines and automated testing workflows

• Support the maintenance of integrations between Salesforce and other platforms such as AWS, MuleSoft, and other third-party services.

• Drive the adoption of DevOps practices by supporting continuous integration, automated testing, and deployment pipelines

• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to solve, optimize, and continuously improve platform functionality

• Participate actively in PI Planning, Sprint Planning, and other SAFe Agile ceremonies to ensure full visibility and accountability across deliverables

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 1 - 3 years of Computer Science, IT or related field experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree with 4 - 6 years of Computer Science, IT or related field experience OR

• Diploma with 7 - 9 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Must-Have Skills

• Hands on experience developing SFDC applications and integrating Salesforce.com with other applications

• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, including Agile and Scrum

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience in Mulesoft

• Experience with AWS (Amazon AppFlow, Amazon EventBridge, and Amazon Connect)

• Experience with Copado DevOps

Professional Certifications:

• Salesforce Platform Developer I (must have)

• Salesforce Platform Developer II (preferred)

• Salesforce Administrator or Platform App Builder (preferred)

• SAFe® for Teams certification (preferred)

• Agentforce Specialist  (optional)

• COPADO SF (optional)

Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting 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

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.