Sr Data Scientist - Product Owner Enterprise Data Lake

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.

Sr Data Scientist - Product Owner Enterprise Data Lake

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be part of Amgen’s Transformative Digital Capabilities (TDC) organization, which is a global process development function at the cutting edge of digital transformation in the biopharmaceutical industry. TDC provides thought leadership and differentiated capabilities in: digital threads for end-to-end data capture, integration, management, and analytics; digital twins from empirical, first principles, and hybrid modeling techniques for reduced experimentation and improved process performance; and platforming and stewardship of digital assets, technologies, and processes.

The Digital Products and Capabilities team within TDC is searching for a Senior Data Scientist to serve as the Product Owner for the Operation’s Enterprise Data Lake (EDL) and analytics lead. The Operation’s EDL is a system implemented in 2016 as a central location for Process Development (PD) staff to access and analyze data from many sources. This role will also develop the strategy to drive improved usability and accessibility of the data in the EDL through process improvements and visualizations.

In this vital role the EDL product owner should lead the development team through system enhancements and upgrades according to Stakeholders’ requests and to satisfy upstream and downstream systems requirements.

• Plan, prioritize, and continuously evolve product roadmap and product feature backlog with changing business priorities and user needs
• Understand end-user needs and translate user requirements into actionable stories for team to implement
• Participate in ART events, PI planning, sprint reviews, etc.
• Assess value, develop cases, determine metrics, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work aligns with product strategy
• Mitigate roadblocks to achieving sprint/release goals and escalate potential issues to program sponsor
• Lead the product-release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities along with User requirement and SOP ownership
• Serve as product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge, answering questions, collecting user feedback, and running User/SME Meetings
• Review and accept features and enhancements developed and tested by EDL team

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The motivated professional we seek is a solution focused problem solver with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• High school diploma / GED and 10 years of lab informatics experience OR
• Associate’s degree and 8 years of lab informatics experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of lab informatics experience OR
• Master’s degree and 2 years of lab informatics experience OR
• Doctorate degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency with applicable project management tools and technology (I.e. Jira, smartsheet, miro, etc.)
• Experience with change management and IS systems
• Experience with EDL Operations and OVDAS technologies
• Experience with GxP operations and SOP ownership
• Familiarity with some business processes leveraging EDL and related tools
• In-depth knowledge of agile methodology for project management
• Understanding of business value related to features and functions
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills

What you can expect from 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 ever