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Information Systems:

Job Description

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 primarily focus on analyzing scientific requirements from Global Research and translating them into efficient and effective information systems solutions. As a domain expert, the prospective BA collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify data product enhancement opportunities, perform data analysis, troubleshoot issues, and support system implementation and maintenance. Additionally, it will involve development of data product launch and user adoption strategy of Amgen Research Foundational Data Systems. Your expertise in business process analysis and technology will contribute to the successful delivery of IT solutions that drive operational efficiency and meet business objectives.

This role requires expertise in biopharma scientific domains as well as informatics solution delivery. Additionally, extensive collaboration with global teams is required to ensure seamless integration and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in the end-to-end software development lifecycle and be a Scaled Agile practitioner, coupled with change management and transformation experience. This role demands the ability to deliver against key organizational central initiatives, foster a collaborative environment, and deliver high-quality results in a matrixed organizational structure.

• Collaborate with geographically dispersed teams, including those in the US, EU and other international locations.

• Partner and ensure alignment of the Amgen India DTI site leadership and follow global standards and practices.

• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

• Function as a Scientific Business Analyst, providing domain expertise for Research Data and Analytics within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) product team

• Serve as Agile team scrum master or project manager as needed

• Create functional analytics dashboards and fit-for-purposes applications for quantitative research, scientific analysis and business intelligence (Databricks, Spotfire, Tableau, Dash, Streamlit, RShiny)

• Support a suite of custom internal platforms, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, and systems integrations

• Translate scientific and technological needs into clear, actionable requirements for development teams

• Develop and maintain release deliverables that clearly outlines the planned features and enhancements, timelines, and milestones

• Identify and manage risks associated with the systems, including technological risks, scientific validation, and user acceptance

• Develop documentations, communication plans and training plans for end users

• Ensure scientific data operations are scoped into building Research-wide Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning capabilities

• Ensure operational excellence, cybersecurity and compliance.

What we expect of you

• Master’s degree and 1 to 3 years of Life Science/Biotechnology/Pharmacology/Information Systems experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 3 to 5 years of Life Science/Biotechnology/Pharmacology/Information Systems experience OR

• Diploma and 7 to 9 years of Life Science/Biotechnology/Pharmacology/Information Systems experience.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in implementing and supporting biopharma scientific research data analytics

• Excellent problem-solving skills and a passion for tackling complex challenges in drug discovery with data

• Collaborative spirit and effective communication skills to work seamlessly in a multi-functional team

• An ongoing commitment to learning and staying at the forefront of AI/ML advancements.

• Familiarity with data analytics and scientific computing platforms such as Databricks, Dash, Streamlit, RShiny, Spotfire, Tableau and related programming languages like SQL, python, R

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise in a scientific domain area and related technology needs

• Understanding of semantics and FAIR (Findability, Accessibility Interoperability and Reuse) data concepts

• Experience with cloud (e.g. AWS) and on-premise compute infrastructure

• Experience with scientific and technical team collaborations, ensuring seamless coordination across teams and driving the successful delivery of technical projects

• Experience creating impactful slide decks and communicating data

• Ability to deliver features meeting research user demands using Agile methodology

• We understand that to successfully sustain and grow as a global enterprise and deliver for patients — we must ensure a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Professional Certifications

• SAFe for Teams certification (preferred)

• SAFe Scrum Master or similar (preferred)

Soft Skills:

• Strong transformation and change management experience.

• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills.

• 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.

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.

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