ABOUT THE ROLE
Role Description:
The role is responsible for leading and charting the course for Corporate Functions, Data & Analytics team that builds and transforms technology capabilities that positively impacts business outcomes. This individual will be responsible for leading a highly talented team that is built for delivering high-end and innovative technologies.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leadership in technology-driven environments for Finance and HR business area and has a passion for fostering innovation and excellence in the biotechnology industry. Additionally, collaboration with cross-functional and global teams is required to ensure seamless integration and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in end-to-end software development lifecycle and a Scaled Agile practitioner coupled with leadership and transformation experience. This role demands the ability to drive and deliver against key organizational strategic initiatives, foster a collaborative environment, and deliver high-quality results in a matrixed organizational structure.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Maintain strategic relationships and strong communication with the leadership team about IS services and service roadmaps to ensure that all the stakeholders feel informed and engaged
- Lead and manage large, diverse teams within a matrixed organization.
- Collaborate with geographically dispersed teams, including those in the US and other international locations.
- Oversee the software development lifecycle
- Develop and implement strategic plans for technology and workforce.
- Follow global standards and practices.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Attract and recruit top talent as part of an extensive Technology organization to be hired within India.
- Develop talent, motivate the team, delegate effectively, champion diversity within the team and act as a role model of servant leadership.
- Responsible for managing, growing, and developing the Amgen Technology team in India, ensuring global ways of working are imbedded in the local organization
- Understand the decision-making process, workflows, and business and information needs of business partners and stakeholders
- Contribute and define business outcomes + requirements, technology solutions, and services
- Improve activities being measured by crafting, monitoring, and optimizing relevant feedback loops through 'test & learn' activities
- Work with Product Owners, Service Owners and/or delivery teams to ensure that delivery matches commitments, acting as an escalation point and facilitating communication when service commitments are not met
- Ensure communication of key performance metrics and analysis of unmet needs
- Participate in stakeholder and other leadership meetings, working with other parts of the organization, and functional groups to ensure successful delivery
- Ensure ongoing alignment with strategy, compliance, and regulatory requirements for technology investments and services
- Facilitate best practice sharing, ensuring ongoing alignment with the Technology & Digital strategy
- Ensure alignment of Technology service plans across organization
- Provide education to new partners with regards to IT service offerings
- Remain accountable for ensuring overall organizational compliance to quality/compliance requirements such as GXP and Privacy
Basic Qualifications and Experience:
- Masters degree and 8 to 10 years of computer science and engineering preferred, other Engineering field is considered OR
- Bachelors degree and 10 to 14 years of computer science and engineering preferred, other Engineering field is considered OR
- Diploma and 14 to 18 years of in computer science and engineering preferred, other Engineering field is considered
Functional Skills:
Must-Have Skills:
- Strong data architectural design and modeling skills
- Proficiency in Python, PySpark, and Scala for data processing and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) workflows, with hands-on experience in using Databricks for building ETL pipelines and handling big data processing
- Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) databases.
- Experience with data warehousing platforms such as Amazon Redshift, or Snowflake
- Familiarity with big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka for handling large datasets.
- Experience directing solution design, business processes redesign and aligning business requirements to technical solutions in a regulated environment
Good-to-Have Skills:
- Experience in a technical lead role within a pharmaceutical or technology organization, preferably in Finance and HR business functions
- Experience with Software engineering best-practices, including but not limited to version control, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and automated testing
- Experience using and adoption of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Understanding of machine learning pipelines and frameworks for ML/AI models
- Established business partnerships and IS governance practices involving senior business stakeholders
- Experience in managing diverse, cross-functional teams (data engineers, analysts, scientists).
Professional Certifications
- Databricks Certified (preferred)
- AWS Certified Data Engineer (preferred)
Soft Skills:
- Excellent leadership and team management skills.
- Strong transformation and change management experience.
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills.
- 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.
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
Shift Information:
This position requires you to work a later shift and may be assigned a second or third shift schedule. Candidates must be willing and able to work during evening or night shifts, as required based on business requirements.
