Sr Associate Data Scientist

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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 Associate Data Scientist

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will identify trends, root causes, and potential improvements in our products and processes, ensuring that patient voices are heard and addressed with utmost precision. As the Sr Associate Data Scientist at Amgen, you will be responsible for developing and deploying basic machine learning, operational research, semantic analysis, and statistical methods to uncover structure in large data sets. This role involves crafting analytics solutions to address customer needs and opportunities.

• Collect, clean, and handle large datasets related to product performance and patient complaints.

• Ensure data integrity, accuracy, and accessibility for further analysis.

• Develop and maintain databases and data systems for storing patient complaints and product feedback.

• Analyze data to identify patterns, trends, and correlations in patient complaints and product issues.

• Use advanced statistical methods and machine learning techniques to uncover insights and root causes.

• Develop analytics or predictive models to foresee potential product issues and patient concerns to address customer needs and opportunities.

• Prepare comprehensive reports and visualizations to communicate findings to collaborators.

• Present insights and recommendations to cross-functional teams, including product development, quality assurance, and customer service.

• Collaborate with regulatory and compliance teams to ensure adherence to healthcare standards and regulations.

• Find opportunities for product enhancements and process improvements based on data analysis.

• Work with product complaint teams to implement changes and supervise their impact.

• Stay abreast of industry trends, new technologies, and standard methodologies in data science and healthcare analytics.

• Evaluate data to support product complaints.

Work alongside software developers and software engineers to translate algorithms into commercially viable products and services.

• Work in technical teams in development, deployment, and application of applied analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics.

• Perform exploratory and targeted data analyses using descriptive statistics and other methods.

• Work with data engineers on data quality assessment, data cleansing and data analytics

Generate reports, annotated code, and other projects artifacts to document, archive, and communicate your work and outcomes

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The [vital attribute] professional we seek is a [type of person] with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree and 1 to 3 years of proven experience in data science, preferably within the healthcare, biotech, medical devices or pharmaceutical industry and with one or more analytic software tools or languages (e.g., Data Bricks, Salesforce, SAS, SQL, Python) and data visualization tools like Square Two (S2), Spotfire, Bio-Connect, Tableau, Power BI, Smartsheet, or similar OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 3 to 5 years of proven experience in data science, preferably within the healthcare, biotech, medical devices or pharmaceutical industry and with one or more analytic software tools or languages (e.g., Data Bricks, Salesforce, SAS, SQL, Python) and data visualization tools like Square Two (S2), Spotfire, Bio-Connect, Tableau, Power BI, Smartsheet, or similar OR

• Diploma and 7 to 9 years of experience with one or more analytic software tools or languages (e.g., SAS, Data Bricks, Salesforce, SQL, Python) and data visualization tools like Square Two (S2), Spotfire, Bio-Connect, Tableau, Power BI, Smartsheet, or similar.

• Any Python, SA, Salesforce or SQL certification (preferred)

• Fluency in verbal and written English to be able to understand & articulate technical concepts.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated skill in the use of applied analytics, descriptive statistics, feature extraction and predictive analytics on industrial datasets.

• Experience in statistical techniques and hypothesis testing, experience with regression analysis, clustering and classification.

• Experience in analyzing time-series data for forecasting and trend analysis.

• Experience with Data Bricks platform for data analytics.

• Experience working with healthcare data, including patient complaints, product feedback, and regulatory requirements.

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that look after 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 driven and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

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