Senior Manager Information Systems - Rhode Island Lead
AmgenAbout the role
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Information SystemsJob Description
HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?
If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.
Senior Manager Information Systems - Rhode Island Lead
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What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will join our Digital, Technology and Innovation - Global Infrastructure Services (GIS) organization. You will provide leadership to our teams that support our Rhode Island facility, responsible for the scalability, achieving a lower time to market and total cost of ownership. This role will also serve as a technical leader and Product Owner for ensuring the infrastructure needs of the Manufacturing Operations Organization sites are being met. This role ensures well-rounded operational continuity across multiple sites while successfully driving tactical delivery. You will operate within a multi-functional team while demonstrating the technical detail of a hands-on Engineer: leading and the implementing of services and solutions.
You will operate within a matrix organization, direct reporting to the Manufacturing Operations Director of Information Systems and to the Global Infrastructure Services (GIS) Director Information Systems (IS).
As a Senior Manager Information Systems you will:
Provides guidance to the GIS Director Information Systems, IS Architects, full-time employees, and third-party service providers on the development, delivery, and continuous improvement of the data center strategy
Serves as a strategic partner between Operations and GIS, responsible for oversight of Manufacturing Operations infrastructure operations
Ensures the services are aligned with the key principles of service ownership, which include meeting the needs of the business, cost-effectiveness, scalability, compliance, reliability, and resilience
Ensures standards and specifications are current and drives projects to adhere to these standards
Responsible for driving the completion of substantial projects by working with appropriate internal technical teams and third-party service providers and by providing frequent clear and concise written communications
Leads multiple simultaneous strategic projects and large-scale initiatives, including business continuity and high availability for critically important applications
Develops and maintains functional relationships within multidisciplinary teams to anticipate future physical architectures, controls, and automation requirements
Provides representation and technical interface to key internal partner organizations, including virtualization, network, storage, compute, facilities, and engineering
Provides technical mentoring and coaching to junior engineers or architects
Contribute to Capacity Planning & Disaster Recovery Planning
Travel: Domestic and international travel up to 15% may be essential
Provide ITIL Process Planning as applicable
What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The technology professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate degree and 2 years of Information Systems experience: OR
Master’s degree and 6 years of Information Systems experience; OR
Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of Information Systems experience; OR
Associate’s degree and 10 years of Information Systems experience; OR
High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Information Systems experience
In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have a minimum of 2 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:
Demonstrated ability within Information Technology, with at least five years managing within enterprise environments.
Deep technical expertise within IS architecture
Demonstrated experience in leading data center implementations for large enterprises
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