Career Category
Information Systems
Job Description
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.
ABOUT THE ROLE
- You will play a pivotal role in supporting the design, development, and software implementation goals of the Holistic Lab Product Teams, focused on accelerating Amgen’s product development and commercial manufacturing.
Role Description:
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. As a Specialist Software Engineer at Amgen, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining software applications to meet business requirements. You will collaborate with a team of software engineers, participate in software design and development, conduct code reviews, and ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions. Your strong programming skills, knowledge of software development best practices, and attention to detail will contribute to the successful delivery of reliable and efficient software applications.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and implement IS solutions to enable end to end digitization of lab experimentation, simulations and electronic recipe management across Operations.
- Actively engage with business users to analyze business needs, identify technology solutions capture, and document design guided by best practices in Agile development.
- Collaborate with IS Architects and System Owners to implement an integrated solution across PLM, ERP, MES, and Enterprise Data Lake
- Perform hands-on development of technology solutions including configuration of commercial software as well as extensions and integrations
- Serve as lead Solution Engineer: as well as oversee external contractors and consultants
- Review project deliverables throughout development to ensure quality and traceability to requirements and adherence to all quality management plans and standards. Participate in IS quality validation reviews.
- Oversee the backlog of requirements/user stories
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree with 8 to 13 years of experience in Computer Science/IT or related field
Functional Skills:
Must-Have Skills:
- Experience designing, configuring and coding software including custom development and commercial software packages using APIs
- Experience working within an Agile Environment and contributing to ceremonies
- Experience with integration standards, including Web Services, SOAP, REST
- Skilled with object-oriented design/development and semantic web standards
- Experience with development languages such as Java, Python, Pipeline Pilot, C# a plus
- Ability to learn new software, troubleshoot and display critical thinking techniques within improvements
- Strong database management experience with SQL RDBMS and SPARQL; working with Big Data integration and Analytics is a plus
- Experience integrating solutions with ERP, and MES platforms is a plus
- Good overall understanding of business, manufacturing, and laboratory systems common in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the integration of these systems through applicable standards.
- Understanding computer system validation and SDLC in biotech manufacturing and laboratory areas.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to set the context and present sophisticated subjects to senior management in a clear and concise manner.
- Experience building productive resourceful working relationships with business clients
- Experience with DevOps CICD build and deployment pipeline
- Experience with design patterns, data structures, test-driven development
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance engineering culture with a focus on innovation and delivery.
- Test and deploy applications and systems
- Revise, update, refactor and debug code
- Develop documentation throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Serve as an expert on applications and provide technical support
- Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC)
Good-to-Have Skills:
- Experience with lab informatics platforms such as Biovia, Benchling, Revvity and other ELN systems.
- Proficiency in software development and configuration tools (e.g., Pipeline Pilot, Dynatrace).
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and SAFe practices.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently on complex technical issues.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams.
- Experience developing integrations with enterprise data lake and enterprise data fabric platforms
Soft Skills:
- Excellent leadership and team management skills.
- Strong transformation and change management experience.
- Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams.
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully.
- Strong presentation and public speaking skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT
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.
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