Principal IS Architect - Data

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.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for managing the integrations to Amgen Veeva Vault Platform, develops and implements technology strategies, solutions, and services to support integrations to Amgen’s Veeva Vault Platform.

The ideal candidate will have a consistent track record of leadership in technology-driven environments, managing technology platforms, digital transformation initiatives and has a passion for fostering innovation and excellence in the biotechnology industry. Additionally, collaboration with multi-functional and global teams is required to ensure seamless integration and operational excellence. This role demands the ability to drive and deliver against key organizational critical initiatives, foster a collaborative environment, and deliver high-quality results in a matrixed organizational structure.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the Amgen’s enterprise Veeva Vault Platform architecture vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Responsible for fostering platform reliability and efficiency through streamlined release management & execution, and establishing a consistent DevOps & CI/CD framework
• Accountable for designing and building customizations & configurations on the Platform as per the business needs including creating custom objects, fields, workflows and SDKs
• Responsible for strategizing Platform Integrations while adhering to consistent integration standards and patterns, designing integration workflows, building connectors, centralizing build & run, and performing a consistent DevOps model for integrations
• Identify and mitigate architectural risks, ensuring that the platform is scalable, secure, and resilient
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of the platform architecture, including principles, standards, user guides, and models
• Drive continuous improvement in the architecture by finding opportunities for innovation and efficiency
• Work with partners to gather and analyze requirements, ensuring that solutions meet both business and technical needs
• Perform impact assessments, clearly define AS-IS and TO-BE states, and recommend platform upgrades following the new features and functionalities released by Veeva
• Design platform architecture that can scale to meet growing business needs and performance demands
• Develop and maintain logical, physical, and conceptual data models to support business needs
• Establish and enforce data standards, governance policies, and best practices
• Provide domain expertise in Veeva Vault to the team, offering guidance on architecture, solution design, and implementation challenges.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in resolving complex technical issues and ensuring smooth deployment and system integration

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of Business, Engineering, IT or related field experience OR
• Master’s degree and 8 to 10 years of Business, Engineering, IT or related field experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 10 to 14 years of Business, Engineering, IT or related field experience OR
• Diploma and 14 to 18 years of Business, Engineering, IT or related field experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Functional Skills:

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong understanding of architecting and deployment strategies for integrations to Veeva Vault Platforms/Products,
• Expertise in system integration, including APIs, middleware tools, and data migration between Vault and other systems.
• Strong knowledge of Data Lake technologies like Databricks, etc.
• Experience in Mulesoft and Python script development
• Extensive knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, technologies, and methodologies
• Experience with system integration and IT infrastructure
• Experience with data, change, and technology governance processes on the platform level
• Experience working in agile methodology, including Product Teams and Product Development models
• Proficiency in designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions.
• Have partner and team management skills
• Can lead and guide multiple teams to meet business needs and goals
• Experience with cloud-based architectures, AWS, Azure, or similar environments.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Good Knowledge of the Global Pharmaceutical Industry
• Understanding of GxP process
• Strong solution design and problem-solving skills
• Strong understanding of technology, function, or platform
• Experience in developing differentiated and deliverable solutions
• Ability to analyze client requirements and translate them into solutions
• Working late hours

Professional Certifications (please mention if the certification is preferred or mandatory for the role):

• Veeva Vault Platform Administrator (mandatory)
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for Teams (mandatory)
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) – DevOps Practitioner (preferred)
• ITIL (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 solving 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.

Equal opportunity statement

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with 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 an accommodation.

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.

and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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