Associate Director, Information Systems
Thousand Oaks, CA - USA
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Join Amgens Mission of Serving Patients
At Amgen if you feel like youre part of something bigger its because you are. Our shared missionto serve patients living with serious illnessesdrives all that we do.
Since 1980 weve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the worlds toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas Oncology Inflammation General Medicine and Rare Disease we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer heart disease inflammatory conditions rare diseases and obesity and obesity-related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team youll 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 youll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.
Associate Director Information Systems
What you will do
Lets do this. Lets change the this vital role you will serve as the technology leader responsible for the strategy delivery and continuous evolution of a portfolio of products supporting Amgens Value and Access organization including Coverage Pricing Intelligence CapAI and Pricing capabilities. You will partner closely with business leaders engineering teams architects and product teams to define strategic roadmaps and deliver scalable technology solutions that enable Commercial Operations and accelerate business outcomes.
The primary objective of this role is to translate business strategy into innovative technology capabilities while ensuring delivery excellence operational stability and measurable business value. You will lead multiple cross-functional Agile teams drive innovation strengthen partnerships across business and technology organizations and continuously evolve products that support Amgens digital transformation.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the technology leader for agile teams supporting Coverage Pricing Intelligence CapAI and Pricing capabilities ensuring delivery aligns with business strategy product vision and organizational priorities.
- Define own and execute the strategic product roadmap and investment priorities for the product portfolio by translating business objectives into prioritized capabilities release plans and measurable business outcomes.
- Build strong partnerships with business leaders engineering teams enterprise architects and cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities and deliver scalable sustainable technology solutions.
- Lead product execution by driving PI Planning backlog refinement sprint planning release planning and dependency management to ensure successful delivery against committed objectives.
- Establish and monitor OKRs and delivery performance metrics including predictability flow productivity Spec-Driven Development (SDD) product adoption operational health and business value realization.
- Apply data-driven decision making to prioritize investments measure product performance identify improvement opportunities and continuously enhance product capabilities and customer experience.
- Drive AI and advanced analytics initiatives by identifying opportunities to leverage modern data platforms machine learning Generative AI and emerging technologies to improve business processes and accelerate decision making.
- Provide leadership for platform operations including production support incident management - Live Narrative adoption & root cause analysis timely closure of corrective actions and continuous operational improvements.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver scalable cloud-based data and AI solutions that are secure resilient and aligned with enterprise architecture data governance and compliance standards.
- Lead coach and develop cross-functional team members while fostering a collaborative high-performing culture focused on continuous learning accountability and customer value.
What we expect of you
We are all different yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a collaborative technology and product leader with the following qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate degree and 3 years of Information Systems experience
OR
Masters degree and 7 years of Information Systems experience
OR
Bachelors degree and 9 years of Information Systems experience
OR
Associates degree and 12 years of Information Systems experience
OR
High school diploma / GED and 14 years of Information Systems experience
In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements you must have a minimum of 3 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams projects programs or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading enterprise technology products or platforms supporting analytics pricing commercial operations business intelligence or AI-enabled business capabilities.
- Strong technical understanding of modern data and analytics platforms including Databricks Python SQL Apache Spark cloud-native data engineering architectures and scalable data pipelines.
- Experience delivering scalable cloud-based technology solutions on AWS including analytics platforms data pipelines machine learning workloads application security and operational monitoring.
- Experience delivering data science machine learning and AI-powered products from concept through production deployment business adoption and continuous improvement.
- Understanding of Generative AI Large Language Models (LLMs) Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) AI agents prompt engineering model orchestration evaluation frameworks and responsible AI practices.
- Experience managing the complete product lifecycle including product strategy roadmap development prioritization delivery platform operations adoption and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical concepts into product strategies investment recommendations and measurable business outcomes for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary product teams consisting of Product Owners Data Engineers Software Engineers Data Scientists Machine Learning Engineers Architects Business Analysts and Quality Engineers.
- Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture governance security privacy and regulatory requirements preferably within the pharmaceutical healthcare life sciences or another highly regulated industry.
- Technical fluency to evaluate solution designs guide architectural decisions identify delivery risks and effectively partner with engineering organizations without requiring day-to-day hands-on software development.
- Proven ability to influence business and technology stakeholders build trusted partnerships and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
- Experience working in Agile product organizations using SAFe methodologies and driving continuous improvement across product delivery teams.
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 well support your journey every step of the way.
The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to relevant skills experience and qualifications.
In addition to the base salary Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan based on eligibility comprising of 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 that may include:
- A 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
- Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies
Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.
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Application deadline
Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.
Sponsorship
Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.
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.
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About Company
Amgen, a biotechnology pioneer, discovers, develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics. Our medicines have helped millions of patients in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses. As an organization dedicated to improving the ... View more