Senior Data 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.

Senior Data Engineer

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will The Sr. Data Engineer designs, develops, and maintains scalable software solutions to address complex business needs, with a focus on building robust data foundations for data repositories, integrations, and reporting. This role ensures system performance and availability while minimizing downtime through automation and proactive incident management.

The ideal candidate will collaborate with product owners, architects, and engineers to design a next-generation metrics engine and implement a new data governance capability, including metadata and reference data management for analytics. Additional responsibilities include designing interfaces, workflows, and data models, conducting data mapping across systems, optimizing data migration, and deploying integrations in development and production environments, ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

This position is perfect for a collaborative, detail-oriented professional passionate about enhancing clinical operations through advanced data engineering and integrations.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with product owners, data architects, business SMEs and engineers to develop and deliver high-quality solutions, enhancing and maintaining integrations across clinical systems.

• Design and architect the next-generation metrics engine on modern infrastructure to support operational analytics leveraging cloud technologies.

• Design and implement a new data governance capability incorporating essential features like metadata and reference data management for analytics.

• Take ownership of complex software projects from conception to deployment, managing scope, risk, and timelines.

• Utilize rapid prototyping skills to quickly translate concepts into working solutions and code.

• Leverage modern AI/ML technologies to enable predictive analytics, NLP/NLQ capabilities, and enhance the overall data analytics process.

• Analyze functional and technical requirements of applications, translating them into software architecture and design specifications.

• Develop and execute unit tests, integration tests, and other testing strategies to ensure software quality and reliability.

• Integrate systems and platforms to ensure seamless data flow, functionality, and interoperability.

• Provide ongoing support and maintenance for applications, ensuring smooth and efficient operation.

• Collaborate on building advanced analytics capabilities to empower data-driven decision-making and operational insights.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, fostering team growth and skill development.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

Basic Qualifications:

• 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 14 - 18 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field

• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

• Hands on experience writing SQL using any RDBMS (Redshift, Postgres, MySQL, Teradata, Oracle, etc.)

• Experience with Schema Design & Dimensional data modeling

• Hands on experience with big data technologies and platforms, such as Databricks, Apache Spark (PySpark, SparkSQL), workflow orchestration, performance tuning on big data processing

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with software DevOps CI/CD tools, such Git, Jenkins, Linux, and Shell Script

• Experience with Spark, Hive, Kafka, Kinesis, Spark Streaming, and Airflow

• Experience with data flow pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from various data sources in various forms, including custom ETL pipelines

• Experience working in an agile environment (i.e. user stories, iterative development, etc.)

Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• 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 presentation and public speaking skills

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.