Specialist Automation Engineer – Digital Experience & Automation

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.

Specialist Automation Engineer – Digital Experience & Automation

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will design, build, and scale intelligent automations—leveraging RPA, machine learning, AI services, and cloud-native development—to streamline Digital Technology & Innovation (DTI) operations and elevate workforce productivity across the enterprise.

You will lead rapid proofs-of-concept, own complex automation projects from ideation through production, and collaborate with process owners, architects, and engineers to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Engineer end-to-end automations: design, code, test, deploy, and maintain robust solutions that reduce manual effort and cycle time.

• Rapid prototyping: deliver proof-of-concept automations to validate feasibility and value, iterating quickly with stakeholders.

• Process re-engineering: work with SMEs to map, optimize, and automate workflows using RPA, AI/ML, and cloud services.

• Project ownership: drive high-visibility automation initiatives, ensuring scope, quality, schedule, and cost targets are met.

• Hands-on development: build reusable components, APIs, and orchestration logic in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.

• Intelligent automation: integrate cognitive services (NLP, OCR, predictive models) to create self-learning, adaptive solutions.

• Collaboration & guidance: partner with ML engineers, cloud architects, and DevOps teams to operationalize and scale automations.

• Standards & best practices: contribute to coding guidelines, CI/CD pipelines, and governance frameworks that enable sustainable growth.

What we expect of you

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Basic Qualifications:

Master's degree / Bachelor's degree and 8 to 13 years Information Systems experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Must-Have Skills

• 2+ years building automations with one or more leading platforms (UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, Power Automate, etc.).

• Proven full-stack development skills in at least one modern language (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Java, Go, etc.).

• Experience delivering cloud-native solutions (AWS, Azure, or GCP) using services such as Lambda/Functions, API Gateway, S3/Blob, and serverless data stores.

• Familiarity with ML/AI concepts and practical integration of models or cognitive services into automation workflows.

• Demonstrated success leading or contributing to Agile/Scrum or DevOps delivery teams.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities; ability to translate operational pain points into technical designs.

Nice to Have Skills

• 3–5 years designing, deploying, and operating automations that span SaaS, cloud, and on-prem environments.

• Deep proficiency in Python and experience developing, training, or tuning machine-learning models.

• Hands-on experience with process-mining / intelligence tools (Celonis, UiPath Process Mining, etc.).

• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, and Redshift.

• Exposure to citizen-development programs and governance of low-code/no-code solutions.

Soft Skills

• Strong collaboration and influencing skills across technical and non-technical teams.

• Proven ability to prioritize, manage multiple initiatives, and deliver under tight deadlines.

• Clear, concise communicator—able to tailor messages to engineers, product owners, and leadership.

• High degree of initiative, ownership, and accountability; thrives in fast-changing environments.

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.

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.

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