Associate Systems Analyst

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.

Associate Systems Analyst

Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role to support the stability, performance, and alignment of Quality-focused data & analytics applications. The role requires close collaboration with business stakeholders, active monitoring and troubleshooting, and supporting enhancement and testing cycles across critical applications. You will also be responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that meet business needs and ensuring the availability and performance of critical systems and applications.

• Maintain existing code and configuration: Support and maintain data & analytics products
• Development & Deployment: Develop, test, and deploy code based on designs created with the guidance of senior team members. Implement solutions following standard methodologies for code structure and efficiency.
• Documentation: Generate clear and concise code documentation for new and existing features to ensure smooth handovers and easy future reference.
• Collaborative Design: Work closely with team members and stakeholders to understand project requirements and translate them into functional technical designs.
• Code Reviews & Quality Assurance: Participate in peer code reviews, providing feedback on consistency to best practices, and ensuring high code quality and maintainability.
• Testing & Debugging: Assist in writing unit and integration tests to validate new features and functionalities. Support troubleshooting and debugging efforts for existing systems to resolve bugs and performance issues.
• Perform application support and administration tasks such as periodic review, manage incident response and resolution, and security reviews.
• Continuous Learning: Stay up-to-date with the newest technologies and best practices, with a focus on expanding knowledge in cloud services, automation, and secure software development.

Must-Have Skills

• Solid technical background, including understanding software development processes, databases, and cloud-based systems
• Ability to triage and resolve incidents, bring up when necessary, and maintain SLAs
• Strong foundational knowledge of testing methodologies
• Experience working with databases, data modeling and data warehousing (Oracle, MySQL)
• Ability to understand and map business requirements to system capabilities
• Comfortable engaging with global stakeholders, communicating both technical and non-technical issues

• Understanding of Quality Control and Quality Assurance processes within the biopharmaceutical industry.
• Curiosity of modern technology domain and learning agility
• Experience with the following technologies: AWS (Amazon Web Services) Services (DynamoDB, EC2, S3, etc.), Application Programming Interface (API) integration and Structured Query Language (SQL), Testing tools (i.e. Application Lifecycle Management), and ITIL platforms (i.e. ServiceNow)

• AWS Cloud Practitioner (Preferred)

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 2 to 6 years

As we work to develop treatments that take care of 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 competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided 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 accommodation.