Sr. Manager Information Systems

Join Amgen's Mission of Serving Patients

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.

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.

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

What we expect of you

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

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 Thinking: 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 KPI's.

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.

What you can expect of us

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.

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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.