HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?
If you feel like youre part of something bigger, its because you are. At Amgen, our shared missionto serve patientsdrives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the worlds leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve togetherresearching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. Its time for a career you can be proud of.
Principal IS Business System Analyst R&D
LiveWhat you will do
Lets do this. Lets change the world. In this vital role you will work with a multi-functional team in Research and Development (R&D), and Digital Technology and Innovation (DTI) groups to advance Amgens digital transformation strategy and Precision Medicine roadmap. Amgen is committed to innovation through technology, and to advance technology capabilities, such as Artificial Intelligence, Data Sciences, and Software Engineering. To achieve this goal, Clinical Design & Analysis (CDA) DTI organization is supporting wide range of business capabilities to advance the innovation in planning, executing, and analyzing clinical trials.
In this role, you will function as a business analyst and collaborate closely with statisticians, data scientists, data engineers, AI/ ML engineers. Together, we analyze the latest industry trends and business requirements, creating, implementing, and scaling innovative technology to continually build and strengthen our clinical data foundation to support Amgen Global Development Mission and Initiatives. You will provide strategic leadership and guidance in analyzing business requirements and designing information systems solutions. You will collaborate with multi-functional teams to understand business needs, identify system enhancements, and drive system implementation projects. Your extensive experience in business analysis, system design, and project management will enable you to deliver innovative and effective technology products.
Key Responsibilities:- Maintains in-depth knowledge of clinical development business domains with an emphasis in the Clinical Patient Study Data CDISC data models, data pipelines, Clinical Design & Analysis as well as an understanding of the multi-functional dependencies.
- Serve as lead BA to work with product owner and business and DTI team members to continuously build and implement Clinical Patient Data platform (clinical patient data storage and process, data security and governances, structured SDTM and ADaM clinical data harmonization) to support Amgen global development and Precision Medicine initiatives.
- Responsibilities include process and systems analysis, requirements elicitation, articulating system solutions and approaches for addressing business needs.
- Technology Evaluation: Collaborate closely with business partners to evaluate and adopt ground breaking AI/ ML and cloud technologies to address clinical development business needs. Contribute to shaping the vision and roadmap for the R&D software ecosystem.
- The position is ideally located part time in our offices in Thousand Oaks, CA, or Tampa, FL as needed with flexible commuters, but we are also willing to look at qualified applicants that are located in the United States and can work remotely in US.
What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The clinical development professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:Doctorate degree and 2 years of Information Technology experienceOrMasters degree and 6 years of Information Technology experience
OrBachelors degree and 8 years of Information Technology experience
OrAssociates degree and 10 years of Information Technology experience
OrHigh school diploma / GED and 12 years of Information Technology experience
Preferred Qualifications:- Training or education degree in biology, or chemistry.
- A solid foundation in modern software design and engineering practices and business analysis. Demonstrable experience in undemanding and gather business requirements and delivered insight, and achieved concrete business outcome.
- Technical Proficiency: Good understanding of the following technologies: Python, R, AI/ML frameworks, relational databases/data modeling, AWS services ( EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, IAM), Docker and CI/CD/Gitlab, Apache/Databricks,
- Expert understanding and experience of clinical development process within Life Sciences (global clinical trial data sources, SDTM & AdaM, end-to-end clinical data design and analysis pipeline, clinical data security and governance)
- Experience in Agile product development as a participating member of a scrum team and related ceremonies and processes
- Ability to collaborate with data scientists and data engineers to deliver functional business requirements as well defining product roadmap.
- High learning agility, demonstrated ability of quickly grasp ever changing technology and clinical development domain knowledge and applied to the project work.
- Strong communications skills in writing, speaking, presenting and time management skills.
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.
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
for a career that defies imagination
Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.
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