Sr. Data Scientist

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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. 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, 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

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this role you will design, build, and deploy scalable data products, dashboards, analytical models, and cloud-based data solutions that improve operational visibility, risk management, supplier performance monitoring, and business decision-making. This role will partner with External Supply stakeholders, internal manufacturing sites, contract manufacturing organizations, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, and central information technology teams to translate business needs into trusted, actionable, and governed data solutions.

The successful candidate will bring strong technical expertise in advanced analytics, data engineering, cloud data platforms, and data governance, along with working knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing, external supply, supply chain, finance, and procurement processes.

Responsibilities Include:

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines, curated datasets, analytical data products, and reporting layers using Python, SQL, and cloud-based data platforms.
• Develop dashboards and visual analytics to monitor External Supply performance, manufacturing status, inventory, supply risk, supplier performance, procurement activity, and operational trends.
• Apply statistical, analytical, and data science methods to identify patterns, generate insights, support scenario analysis, and improve business decision-making.
• Partner with External Supply business stakeholders to define requirements, clarify business problems, identify data sources, and deliver fit-for-purpose digital and analytical solutions.
• Integrate and analyze structured and non-structured data from enterprise systems, including ERP, supply planning, procurement, manufacturing, quality, finance, and external partner data sources.
• Automate recurring reports and manual analyses to improve efficiency, consistency, and data accessibility.
• Collaborate with information technology and business teams to design scalable, maintainable, and reusable data architecture.
• Support data governance, data quality, documentation, and validation practices for analytics used in a regulated pharmaceutical environment.
• Communicate analytical findings, technical recommendations, and business insights clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Promote best practices for code development, dashboard design, data management, analytics lifecycle management, and digital product sustainability.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Sr Data Scientist professional we seek is a collaborative partner with these qualifications. 

Basic Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or regulated manufacturing environments.
• Strong proficiency in Python for data processing, automation, analytics, and model development.
• Strong SQL skills, including complex queries, joins, aggregations, data transformation, and working with large datasets.
• Experience developing dashboards or visual analytics using tools such as Table