Data Platform Engineer

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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.

Data Platform Engineer

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.

What you will do

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Work as a member of a Data Platform Engineering team that uses Cloud and Big Data technologies to design, develop, implement and maintain solutions to support various functional areas like Manufacturing, Commercial, Research and Development.
• Work closely with the Enterprise Data Lake delivery and platform teams to ensure that the applications are aligned with the overall architectural and development guidelines
• Research and evaluate technical solutions including Databricks and AWS Services, NoSQL databases, Data Science packages, platforms and tools with a focus on enterprise deployment capabilities like security, scalability, reliability, maintainability, cost management etc.
• Assist in building and maintaining relationships with internal and external business stakeholders
• Develop basic understanding of core business problems and identify opportunities to use advanced analytics
• Assist in reviewing 3rd party providers for new feature/function/technical fit with department's data management needs.
• Work closely with the Enterprise Data Lake ecosystem leads to identify and evaluate emerging providers of data management & processing components that could be incorporated into data platform.
• Work with platform stakeholders to ensure effective cost observability and control mechanisms are in place for all aspects of data platform management.
• Experience developing in an Agile development environment, and comfortable with Agile terminology and ceremonies.
• Keen on embracing new responsibilities, facing challenges, and mastering new technologies

What we expect of you

Basic Qualifications and Experience:

• Master’s degree in computer science or engineering field and 1 to 3 years of relevant experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering field and 3 to 5 years of relevant experience OR
• Diploma and Minimum of 8+ years of relevant work experience

Must-Have Skills:

• Experience with Databricks (or Snowflake), including cluster setup, execution, and tuning
• Experience with common data processing libraries: Pandas, PySpark, SQLAlchemy.
• Experience in UI frameworks (Angular.js or React.js)
• Experience with data lake, data fabric and data mesh concepts
• Experience with data modeling, performance tuning, and experience on relational databases
• Experience building ETL or ELT pipelines; Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL
• Program skills in one or more computer languages – SQL, Python, Java
• Experienced with software engineering best-practices, including but not limited to version control (Git, GitLab.), CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins etc.), automated unit testing, and Dev Ops
• Exposure to Jira or Jira Align.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Knowledge on R language will be considered an advantage
• Experience in Cloud technologies AWS preferred.
• Cloud Certifications -AWS, Databricks, Microsoft
• Familiarity with the use of AI for development productivity, such as Github Copilot, Databricks Assistant, Amazon Q Developer or equivalent.
• Knowledge of Agile and DevOps practices.
• Skills in disaster recovery planning.
• Familiarity with load testing tools (JMeter, Gatling).
• Basic understanding of AI/ML for monitoring.
• Knowledge of distributed systems and microservices.
• Data visualization skills (Tableau, Power BI).
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Understanding of compliance and auditing requirements.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and solve skills
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills (English) in translating technology content into business-language at various levels
• 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
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong time and task leadership skills to estimate and successfully meet project timeline with ability to bring consistency and quality assurance across various projects.

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.

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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.

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.