Principal IS Business Analyst – Clinical Study Design and Analysis

Career Category

Information Systems

Job Description

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.

Principal IS Business Analyst – Clinical Study Design and Analysis

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Amgen is seeking a Principal IS Business Analyst to join the Clinical Study Design and Analysis (CSDA) product team. You will be responsible for "Run" and "Build" project portfolio execution, collaborate with business partners and other IS service leads to deliver IS capability and roadmap in support of business strategy and goals.

The role leverages domain and business process expertise to detail product requirements as epics and user stories, along with supporting artifacts like business process maps, use cases, and test plans for the software development teams. This role involves working closely with developers and business analysts to ensure that the technical requirements for upcoming development are thoroughly elaborated. This enables the delivery team to estimate, plan, and commit to delivery with high confidence and identify test cases and scenarios to ensure the quality and performance of IT Systems. You will collaborate with Product Managers and developers to maintain an efficient and consistent process, ensuring quality deliverables from the team.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with System Architects and Product Managers to manage business analysis activities, ensuring alignment with engineering and product goals.
• Captures the voice of the customer to define business processes and product needs.
• Works with Product Managers and customers to define scope and value for new developments.
• Collaborates with Engineering and Product Management to prioritize release scopes and refine the product backlog.
• Ensures non-functional requirements are included and prioritized in the product and release backlogs.
• Facilitates the breakdown of epics into features and sprint-sized user stories and participates in backlog reviews with the development team.
• Clearly expresses features in user stories and requirements so all team members and stakeholders understand how they fit into the product backlog.
• Translates complex business and technological needs into clear, actionable requirements for development teams.
• Ensures acceptance criteria and definition of done are well-defined.
• Works closely with UX to align technical requirements, scenarios, and business process maps with user experience designs.
• Stays focused on software development to ensure it meets requirements, providing proactive feedback to stakeholders.
• Develops and executes effective product demonstrations for internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintains accurate documentation of configurations, processes, and changes.
• Serves as a liaison between global DTI functional areas and global development scientists, prioritizing their needs and expectations.
• Manages a suite of custom internal platforms, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, and systems integrations.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is an individual with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of Life Science/Biotechnology/Pharmacology/Information Systems experience

OR

Master’s degree and 4 years of Life Science/Biotechnology/Pharmacology/Information Systems experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of Life Science/Biotechnology/Pharmacology/Information Systems experience

OR

Associate’s degree and 10 years of Life Science/Biotechnology/Pharmacology/Information Systems experience

OR

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Life Science/