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Job Description Role Name: Manager, Information Systems – Veeva Service Delivery

Job Posting Title: Manager, Information Systems – Veeva Service Delivery

Systems Workday Job Profile:Manager, Information Systems – Veeva Service Delivery

Department Name: Digital, Technology and Innovation

Role GCF: 5A

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 role is responsible for leading the team to support and maintain the Amgen Veeva Vault Platform. The role will be involved in defining Amgen’s Veeva Vault Platform support strategy , guiding technology decisions, and ensuring timely service is provide to the Amgen Veeva Vault platform users and their issues are resolved.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leadership in technology-driven environments, managing technology platforms, digital transformation initiatives, and have a passion for fostering innovation and excellence in the biotechnology industry.  Additionally, collaboration with cross-functional and global teams is required to ensure seamless integration and operational excellence. This role demands the ability to drive and deliver against key organizational strategic initiatives, foster a collaborative environment, and deliver high-quality results in a matrixed organizational structure.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the enterprise Veeva Vault Platform support strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

• Responsible for fostering platform reliability.

• Identify and mitigate architectural risks, ensuring that the platform is scalable, secure, and resilient

• Maintain knowledge base of Veeva issues, including principles, standards, user guides, and models

• Drive continuous improvement in the architecture by identifying opportunities for innovation and efficiency

• Work with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements, ensuring that solutions meet both business and technical needs

• Accountable for designing and building customizations & configurations on the Platform as per the business needs including, creating custom objects, fields, workflows and SDKs

• Responsible for strategizing Platform Integrations while adhering to consistent integration standards and patterns, designing integration workflows, building connectors, centralizing build & run and executing consistent DevOps model for integrations

• Perform impact assessments, clearly define AS-IS and TO-BE states, and recommend platform upgrades in accordance with the new features and functionalities released by Veeva

• Design platform architecture that can scale to meet growing business needs and performance demands

• Develop and maintain logical, physical, and conceptual data models to support business needs

• Establish and enforce data standards, governance policies, and best practices

Basic Qualifications and Experience:

GCF Level 5A

• Doctorate Degree OR

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

• Bachelor’s degree with 6 - 8 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field OR

• Diploma with 10 - 12 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 - 10 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field OR

• Diploma with 12 - 14 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field

Functional Skills:

Must-Have Skills

• Strong understanding of Veeva Vault Platform and Veeva Vaults

• Experience with system integration technologies like Mulesoft, Databricks, etc.

• Excellent knowledge of data model and governance

• 6-8 years Global Pharmaceutical experience

• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical operations and data management business processes

• Experienced in pharmaceutical regulations and specifications

• Have Team\People management experience

• Experienced in GxP process

• Experience working in agile methodology, including Product Teams and Product Development models

• Proficiency in designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions

• Can work late hours

• Can work with multiple teams to meet the business and stakeholder needs

• Can lead and guide multiple teams to meet business needs and goals

• Have stakeholder and team management skills

Good-to-Have Skills:

• 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

• Knowledge of Platform and Data Governance

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

• Veeva Vault Platform Administrator (mandatory)

• SAFe – DevOps Practitioner (mandatory)

• SAFe for teams (preferred)

Soft Skills:

• Should be able convert business requirements into technical requirements

• 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.

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