HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

You’ve worked hard to become the professional you are today and are now ready to take the next step in your career. How will you put your skills, experience and passion to work toward your goals? At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.

Data Scientist

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What you will do

Let’s do this! Let’s change the world!

The Digital Process and Systems Analysis group within Process Development plays a key role in providing data infrastructure, platforms, and analytics to support drug substance technology operations. The team supports the end-to-end process development lifecycle from pre-pivotal development through commercialization, covering all of Amgen’s product modalities. This specific role is part of a group that develops, implements, and sustains digital assets such as data pipelines, database tables and data analytics applications at all data asset lifecycle stages.

This Data Scientist role will be part of a team focused on advancing digital capabilities for the drug substance technologies organization. In this role, you will develop, evaluate, and improve Amgen’s digital assets, collaborating as part of a multi-disciplinary team of scientists and engineers on a wide range of problems. The ideal candidate will solve complex and open-ended “no single right answer” challenges by advancing data architecture and creating high value data analytics. Scope of work in this role is inclusive of digital systems related to process monitoring, technology transfer and commercial manufacturing support in addition to supporting larger, cross-functional digital initiatives.

• Support digital systems and applications (e.g., Spotfire visualizations, SIMCA models, Databricks infrastructure and code repos, Product Lifecycle Management) to provide insights through integration of multiple data sources

• Develop comprehensive understanding of Amgen data structures and metrics, advocating for changes where needed for process improvements

• Support design and development of data pipelines to extract, transform and load data to support digital technology transfer solutions

• Support data governance and good data practices including but not limited to ontologies, reference data, and semantic modeling.

• Leverage large datasets to conduct end-to end analytics projects that include data gathering and requirements specifications, processing, analytics, ongoing deliverables, and presentations

• Interact cross-functionally with a wide variety of people and teams. Work closely with engineers to find opportunities for process design improvements for Amgen products

• Make business recommendations (cost-benefit, forecasting, scenario analysis) with effective presentation of findings to multiple level of stakeholders through visualizations

• Contribute to establishing a robust data science strategy by providing recommendations related to process monitoring, data engineering, analytic platforms, analysis plans, and other relevant areas of data science

• Enabling generative AI use cases for drug substance technologies

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is a self-starter with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• High school diploma / GED and 8 years of Data Science or Engineering experience OR

• Associate’s degree and 6 years of Data Science or Engineering experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 2 years Data Science or Engineering experience OR

• Master’s degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 years of work experience in biotechnology role (e.g. a statistician, statistical programmer, data analyst, data scientist, or process development/process engineering)

• Experience with programming (e.g. R, Python) and database languages (e.g. SQL), as well as data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Spotfire)

• Experience with statistical data analysis such as linear/non-linear multivariate models and hypothesis testing

• Experience with Amazon Web Services, and/or Databricks, and/or Snowflake

• Demonstrated skills in selecting the right tools given a data analysis question

• Demonstrated effective written and verbal communication skills ability to plan and effective

• Demonstrated leadership, self direction, and ability to effectively plan and follow through on complex projects

• Ability to learn new techniques and provide technical leadership for key initiatives. Enthusiasm for training customers and teammates

• Enthusiasm to build and maintain effective collaborations with partner organizations across Amgen’s Process Development and Operations Networks

Thrive

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities including:

• Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.

• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan

• Stock-based long-term incentives

• Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns

• Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

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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.

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