Principal BI Architect

**India - Hyderabad**

**JOB ID**:
R-219223

**ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS**:

- India - Hyderabad

**WORK LOCATION TYPE**:
On Site

**DATE POSTED**:
Jun. 30, 2025

**CATEGORY**:
Information Systems

**BI Architect**

**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**

**Role Description**:
**Roles & Responsibilities**:

- Design and develop enterprise BI architectures and implement the architectural vision for TIBCO Spotfire at the enterprise level hosted in AWS
- Partner with data engineers and architects to ensure optimal data modeling, caching, and query performance in Spotfire
- Design scalable, secure, and high-performance Spotfire environments, including multi-node server setups and hybrid cloud integrations.
- Develop reusable frameworks and templates for dashboards, data models, and automation processes.
- Optimize BI query performance, indexing, partitioning, caching, and report rendering to enhance dashboard responsiveness and data refresh speed.
- Implement real-time and batch data integration strategies, ensuring smooth data flow from APIs, ERP/CRM systems (SAP, Salesforce, Dynamics 365), cloud storage, and third-party data sources into BI solutions.
- Establish and enforce BI governance best practices, including data cataloging, metadata management, access control, data lineage tracking, and compliance standards.
- Troubleshoot interactive dashboards, paginated reports, and embedded analytics solutions that deliver actionable insights.
- Implement DataOps and CI/CD pipelines for BI, leveraging Deployment Pipelines, Git integration, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to enable version control and automation.
- Stay up to date with emerging BI technologies, cloud analytics trends, and AI/ML-powered BI solutions to drive innovation.
- Collaborate with business leaders, data analysts, and engineering teams to ensure BI adoption, self-service analytics enablement, and business-aligned KPIs.
- Provide mentorship and training to BI developers, analysts, and business teams, fostering a data-driven culture across the enterprise.

**Must-Have Skills**:

- Experience in BI architecture, data analytics, AWS, and enterprise BI solution development
- Strong expertise in Spotfire including information links, Spotfire Analyst, Spotfire Server, and Spotfire Web Player
- Hands-on experience with Databricks (Apache Spark, Delta Lake, SQL, PySpark) for data processing, transformation, and analytics.
- Experience in scripting and extensions Python or R
- Expertise in BI strategy, KPI standardization, and enterprise data modeling, including dimensional modeling, star schema, and data virtualization.
- Hands-on experience with cloud BI solutions and enterprise data warehouses, such as Azure Synapse, AWS Redshift, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, or SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS).
- Experience with BI governance, access control, metadata management, data lineage, and regulatory compliance frameworks.
- Expertise in Agile BI development, Scaled Agile (SAFe), DevOps for BI, and CI/CD practices for BI deployments.
- Ability to collaborate with C-level executives, business units, and engineering teams to drive BI adoption and data-driven decision-making.

**Good-to-Have Skills**:

- Experience with Tibco Spotfire Lead Discovery
- Knowledge of AI-powered BI, natural language processing (NLP) in BI, and automated machine learning (AutoML) for analytics.
- Experience with multi-cloud BI architectures and federated query solutions using Power BI Tableau.
- Understanding of GraphQL, REST APIs, and data mesh principles for enterprise data access in BI.
- Knowledge of AI/ML pipeline integration within enterprise data architectures.

**Education and Professional Certifications**
- Doctorate Degree with 8-10 + years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field

OR
- Master’s degree with 10 - 14 + years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field

OR
- Bachelor’s degree with 12-17 + years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field
- Tibco Spotfire Certifications
- Power BI Certifications
- Tableau Certifications

**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.
- Ability to learn quickly, be organized and detail oriented.
- Strong presentation and public speaking skills.

**EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT**

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