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.

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

Data Platform Engineer

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.
• Collaborate with lead architect, Business SMEs, and Data Scientists to architect data solutions
• Serve as lead engineer for technical implementation of projects including planning, architecture, design, development, testing, and deployment in agile setting
• Overall management of the Enterprise Data Lake on AWS environment to ensure that the service delivery is cost effective and business SLAs around uptime, performance and capacity are met
• Help define guidelines, standards, strategies, security policies and change management policies to support the Data Lake
• Proactively work on challenging data integration problems by implementing optimal ETL patterns, frameworks for structured and unstructured data.
• 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.
• Familiarity with code versioning using GITLAB, and code migration tools.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers and team members.
• Stay up to date with the latest data technologies and trends

What we expect of you

Basic Qualifications and Experience:

• Master’s degree in computer science or engineering field and 4 to 6 years of relevant experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering field and 6 to 8 years of relevant experience OR
• Diploma in computer science and Minimum of 10+ years of relevant work experience

Must-Have Skills:

• Demonstrated hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Proficiency in Python, PySpark, SQL. Hands on experience with ETL performance tuning.
• Development knowledge in Databricks.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills to address sophisticated data challenges.
• Programming experience preferably in Python, Scala , Java.
• Experience building Bigdata pipelines; Hands-on experience with SQL
• Experience in API development and deployment.
• Experience working with Apache Spark, Pyspark, Apache Airflow, Databricks
• Experience with Software engineering best-practices, including but not limited to version control, CI/CD, automated testing
• Experience with Docker and AWS services: EKS, EC2, S3, EMR, RDS, Redshift/Spectrum, Lambda, Glue
• Exposure to Jira or Jira Align.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience in SQL/NOSQL database, vector database for large language models
• Experience with AWS services: EKS, EC2, S3, EMR, RDS, Redshift/Spectrum, Lambda, Glue, Athena
• Understanding of relational/ dimensional data modeling techniques
• Experience with timely engineering, model fine tuning
• Ability to work in a startup-like environment with little supervision
• Ability to effectively present information for all levels, and respond to questions from managers, clients, and customers
• AWS Certified Data Engineer
• Databricks Certification
• SAFe Agile certification

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.