Specialist Business Systems Analyst

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.

Specialist Business Systems Analyst

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will demonstrates 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:

• Be an interdisciplinary team member who is innovative, accountable, reliable, and able to thrive in a constantly evolving environment

  
  

• Build and maintain product requirements for life cycle management as well as create and maintain prioritized user stories backlog in partnership with product owner and business teams

  
  

• Drive business requirements, functional design, prototyping, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), testing, training, defining support procedures and supporting implementations

  
  

• Bring product capabilities to life by translating concepts and ideas to software features

  
  

• Continuously advance team and collaborator adoption of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

  
  

• Work closely in a client-facing role with a multi-functional team of DTI platform and product collaborators

  
  

• Influence the customer product experience by translating data into insights and business value

  
  

• Assist in maintaining existing models, providing architectural guidance, and driving Anaplan best practices for initiatives

  
  

• Support any necessary Anaplan model updates to accommodate new data and systems, including validating inbound and outbound data for accuracy and making updates as needed

  
  

• Work closely with the Product team in the design and development of high performant data ingestion pipelines from multiple sources using Databricks

  
  

• Work with Data Engineers in automating and building integrations for seamless data flow to Anaplan, Tableau, and other reporting platforms

  
  

• Lead the team on the architecture, design, development, testing, implementation, and DevOps of Coverage & Pricing’s Deal Modeling, Forecasting and Analytics Products on GCO’s AWS Data Lake and Anaplan platforms

  
  

• Handle end-to-end requirements for development work, and management of backlog including tracking dependencies, risks, and decisions

  
  

• Coordinate of product team's work when there are dependencies on other Amgen teams or external business partners

  
  

• Follow Amgen’s governance processes, procedures, specifications, design controls, and applicable compliance standards and guidance documents

  
  

• Work across teams to support the technology stack of GCO DTI Coverage, Contracting and Pricing products on standard City Plan platforms (Anaplan, AWS Redshift, Alteryx, Tableau, Model N, SAP, Salesforce, GDNA)

  
  

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

Basic Qualifications and Experience:

• Master’s degree and 4 to 6 years of Life Science/Biotechnology/Pharmacology/Information Systems experience OR

  
  

• Bachelor’s degree and 6 to 8 years of Life Science/Biotechnology/Pharmacology/Information Systems experience OR

  
  

• Diploma and 10 to 12 years of Life Science/Biotechnology/Pharmacology/Information Systems experience

  
  

• Working experience in Agile (Scrum, SAFe) teams with a demonstrable understanding of software development framework and methodologies

  
  

• Strong prioritization skills and ability to quickly adjust in a dynamic environment, manage multiple releases at the same level of detail

  
  

• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, including Agile and Scrum

  
  

• Expertise in the broad set of data-related technologies, including Data Storage (AWS S3), Cloud Compute (AWS EC2), Highly Performant Data Warehouses (AWS Redshift), Data Engineering and Analytics (Databricks, Spark), Orchestration (Airflow, Jenkins), and Reporting / Data Visualization Tools (Tableau)

  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

  
  

• Expert in Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, PowerPoint, Excel, Jira, Confluence, Change Management tool (ServiceNow), Test tool (Zephyr, ALM)

  
  

• PMP or project management experience highly preferred

  
  

• Experience building and maintaining with Anaplan, Databricks, ETL Tools, and working with programming languages (Python, R, SQL)

  
  

• Able to communicate technical or complex subject matters in business terms

  
  

• Experience of DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery methodology

  
  

Professional Certifications:

• SAFe for Teams certification (required)

  
  

Soft Skills:

• Able to work under minimal supervision

  
  

• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Demonstrated ability in effectively delegating work

  
  

• Excellent analytical and gap/fit assessment skills

  
  

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

  
  

• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams

  
  

• High degree of initiative and self-motivation

  
  

• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully

  
  

• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals

  
  

• Strong presentation and public speaking skills

  
  

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, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

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