Sr. Data Engineer – CTRS

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 responsible for developing and maintaining the overall data architecture and integration with Amgen Clinical Trial and Registry System (CTRS). This role involves defining the data integrations vision, creating roadmaps, and ensuring that IT strategies align with business goals. The role will be working closely with team members to understand requirements, develop data integration blueprints, and ensure that solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business and data team members to gather requirements, assess data needs, and ensure data quality, privacy, and compliance across ETL pipelines.
• Develop, monitor, and maintain CI/ CD-enabled ETL pipelines using Databricks and AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda, EMR, etc.).
• Optimize ETL jobs for performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, and data quality using standard methodologies for data ingestion, transformation, and loading.
• Identify, fix, and resolve pipeline bottlenecks or failures to maintain data pipeline health.
• Partner with MDM and Reference Data teams to enforce standards and reusability to enforce data standards and reusability across ecosystem.
• Maintain user documentation for data definitions, flows, lineage, and quality rules to support audit readiness and data governance.
• Ensure alignment to data governance policies and contribute to improvement initiatives around data standardization and harmonization.
• Engage in Agile/SAFe ceremonies, provide story estimates, and deliver user stories related to data platform enhancements.
• Lead in design discussions, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, contributing to continuous improvement of the ETL platform and framework.
• Conduct and share data profiling, quality assessments, and performance analysis using Databricks tools and AWS monitoring services.
• Automate deployment and migration of ETL jobs across development, QA, and production environments using version-controlled CI/CD practices.
• Research and implement new technologies or frameworks that improve the robustness, flexibility, or efficiency of the data pipelines.
• Partner with business teams to identify compliance requirements with data privacy, security, and regulatory policies for the assigned domains.
• Build strong relationships with key business leads and partners to ensure their needs are met.
• Be a key team member that assists in design and development of the data pipeline for Veeva Vault platform.
• Take ownership of data pipeline projects from inception to deployment, manage scope, timelines, and risks.
• Identify and resolve complex data-related challenges.
• Explore new tools and technologies that will help to improve ETL platform performance.
• Participate in sprint planning meetings and provide estimations on technical implementation
• Work with data engineers on data quality assessment, data cleansing and data analytics.
• Share and discuss findings with team members practicing SAFe Agile delivery model.
• Automate and Optimize data pipeline and framework for easier and cost-effective development process.
• Advice and support project teams (project managers, architects, business analysts, and developers) on cloud platforms (AWS, Databricks preferred), tools, technology, and methodology related to the design, build scalable, efficient and maintain Data Lake and other Big Data solutions.
• Experience developing in an Agile development environment, and comfortable with Agile terminology and ceremonies.

What we expect of you

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Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree / Master's degree / Bachelor's degree and 8 to 13 years Computer Science, IT or related field

Preferred Qualifications:

Functional Skills:

Must-Have Skills

• Strong knowledge of Data Lake technologies like Databricks, etc.
• Experience in MuleSoft, Python script and REST/RESTful API script development.
• Experience in Clinical system integration.
• Extensive knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, technologies and methodologies like AWS, and methodologies such as SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture).
• Experience with system integration and IT infrastructure
• Experience with data, change, and technology governance processes on the platform level.
• Experience working in agile methodology, including Product Teams and Product Development models leading Scrum teams using Jira and Confluence, and adopting Agile methodologies like Kanban and Lean for product development.
• Proficiency in designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions like cost optimization using AWS Cost Explorer.
• Have stakeholder and team management skills.
• Could lead and guide multiple teams to meet business needs and goals.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Good Knowledge of Global Pharmaceutical Industry
• Understanding of GxP process
• Strong solution design and problem-solving skills
• Strong understanding of technology, function, or platform
• Experience in developing differentiated and deliverable solutions
• Ability to analyze client requirements and translate them into solutions
• Working late hours

Professional Certifications (please mention if the certification is preferred or mandatory for the role):

• SAFe – DevOps Practitioner (preferred)
• SAFe for teams (preferred)

Soft Skills:

• Excellent critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Demonstrated awareness of how to function in a team setting
• Demonstrated awareness of presentation skills

Shift Information:

This position requires you to work a later shift and may be assigned a second or third shift schedule. Candidates must be willing and able to work during evening or night shifts, as required based on business requirements.

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 accommodation.

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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