Sr. Manager Information Systems

What you will do

In this vital role you will harness the power of data leveraging digital technologies to serve the need of Manufacturing and Clinical Supply Chain. You will lead the technical delivery for this capability as part of a team including technical product owners.

The team will rely on your leadership to own and refine the vision, feature prioritization, partner alignment, and experience leading solution delivery while building this ground-breaking new capability for Amgen. You will drive the product ownership of the product release and will deliver for the outcomes.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead delivery of overall product and product features from concept to end of life management of the product team comprising of product owners, business analysts, testing and scrum masters to ensure that business, quality, and functional goals are met with each product release
• Drives excellence and quality for the respective product releases, collaborating with Partner teams.
• Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team. Has significant input into priorities.
• Incorporate and prioritize feature requests into product roadmap; Able to translate roadmap into execution
• Design and implement usability, quality, and delivery of a product or feature
• Plan releases and upgrades with no impacts to business
• Hands on expertise in driving quality and best in class Agile engineering practices
• Encourage and motivate the product team to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency
• Manages progress of work and addresses production issues during sprints
• Communication with partners to make sure goals are clear and the vision is aligned with business objectives
• Direct management and staff development of team members

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree / Master's degree / Bachelor's degree and 12 to 17 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field

Functional Skills:

Leadership:

• Influences through Collaboration: Builds direct and behind-the-scenes support for ideas by working collaboratively with others.
• Strategic Thinki ng: Anticipates downstream consequences and tailors influencing strategies to achieve positive outcomes.
• Transparent Decision-Making: Clearly articulates the rationale behind decisions and their potential implications, continuously reflecting on successes and failures to enhance performance and decision-making.
• Adaptive Leadership: Recognizes the need for change and actively participates in technical strategy planning.

Must-Have Skills:

• Thorough understanding of modern web application development and delivery, Gen AI applications development, Data integration and enterprise data fabric concepts, methodologies, and technologies e.g. AWS technologies, Databricks
• Demonstrated experience in building strong teams with consistent practices.
• Demonstrated experience in navigating matrix organization and leading change.
• Prior experience writing business case documents and securing funding for product team delivery; Financial/Spend management for small to medium product teams is a plus.
• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles.
• Define success metrics for developer productivity metrics; on a monthly/quarterly basis analyze how the product team is performing against established KPIs.

Preferred Qualifications:

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Strong influencing skills, influence stakeholders and be able to balance priorities.
• Prior experience in vendor management.
• Prior hands-on experience leading full stack development using infrastructure cloud services (AWS preferred) and cloud-native tools and design patterns (Containers, Serverless, Docker, etc.)
• Experience with developing solutions on AWS technologies such as S3, EMR, Spark,
• Athena, Redshift and others
• Familiarity with cloud security (AWS /Azure/ GCP)
• Conceptual understanding of DevOps tools (Ansible/ Chef / Puppet / Docker /Jenkins)

Professional Certifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred)
• Certified DevOps Engineer (preferred)
• Certified Agile Leader or similar (preferred)

Soft Skills:

• Strong desire for continuous learning to pick new tools/technologies.
• High attention to detail is essential with critical thinking ability.
• Should be an active contributor on technological communities/forums
• Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices.
• Influences and energizes others toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable
• Established habit of proactive thinking and behavior and the desire and ability to self-start/learn and apply new technologies
• Excellent organizational and time-management 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.