Senior Anaplan Engineer

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 serve a critical function within Organizational, Planning, Analytics & Insights (OPA&I) with a goal of enterprise-wide, long-term workforce transformation by connecting people, financial, procurement & capability data to enable business insights & decisions. The Sr. Anaplan Engineer will collaborate with the Tech and Data Lead for OPA&I and will be responsible for translating requirements and implementing solutions for OPA&I into the Anaplan platform.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Build new capabilities demonstrating the Anaplan system to support strategic transformation initiatives, evolving business processes, and continuous improvement
• Translate existing solutions, complex spreadsheets and business problems into elegant, intuitive Anaplan multi-dimensional models. Design, build, and maintain complex Anaplan models and modules
• Develop and implement automation routines and data integrations to streamline processes
• Solve and resolve Anaplan issues, ensuring smooth operation and data integrity.
• Expertise in complex data analysis (specifically relating to financial and resource planning, scenario modeling)
• Modify existing models as part of a connected solution, optimization, or to incorporate new functionality
• Provide candid, relevant feedback and progress updates in a timely manner to the Business Partners and leadership
• Develop model documentation
• Participate in data integration and migration solutions
• Lead UAT testing and deployment

What we expect of you

• Master’s degree computer science or engineering field plus 4 to 6 years of relevant development/engineering experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering field plus 6 to 8 years of relevant development/engineering experience OR
• Diploma and 8 years of relevant development/engineering experience

Basic Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel / financial modeling skills
• Experience with Data Hub integrations and design
• Experience in requirements gathering and mock-up creation or management of COE and prioritization with business on requirement
• High level of proficiency to understand and interrogate complex business data requirements, and build feeds and analytical models that will deliver the relevant insights
• Outstanding critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment
• Demonstrated knowledge of a formal system implementation methodology - requirements gathering, design, build/test and deploy (Agile methodology preferable)
• Experience with one or more programming languages, such as Python, Scala, R or Java
• Experience in semantic data layers or data lake design
• Familiar with Machine Learning life cycle, with knowledge of feature stores, MLflow, model registries, model deployment, model serving, and model monitoring
• Familiar with PySpark and data processing libraries, machine learning frameworks (like Tensorflow, Keras or PyTorch), and other machine learning libraries
• Experience in leading teams through uncertainty and ambiguity in a product team environment
• Experience working in Agile teams & DevOps frameworks (Jenkins, JIRA, GitHub) and designing CI/CD processes

Professional Certifications:

• Anaplan Model Builder Level 1 (mandatory)
• Anaplan Model Builder Level 2 (mandatory)
• Anaplan Model Builder Level 2 (preferred)
• The Anaplan Way (preferred)
• Anaplan Solution Architect (preferred)
• Relevant agile certification (preferred)

Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and solving skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
• Ability to run multiple priorities successfully.
• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills.

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.