Director Software Development Engineering

Amgen•Thousand Oaks, CA

2d•Remote

About The Position

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. Director Software Development Engineering What you will do and what we expect of you Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will: Duties: Recruit, build and manage software development team, including fulltime employee and contract worker; Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope. Monitor or track project milestones, progress and deliverables to meet deliverable timelines; Direct or coordinate activities of project personnel; Monitor the performance of project team members, providing and documenting performance feedback; Analyze and decompose high-level business needs into actionable tasks and deliverables; Prioritize tasks effectively based on business impact, resource availability, and project timelines; Invent, develop, and extend the internally developed software frameworks to improve efficacy, enhance operational workflows, and deliver advanced and life-changing biotech medicines; Define feature sets for innovative software solutions to meet Amgen's software development needs and DevOps for software implementation and enhancement; Design and improve capabilities across Amgen's cloud security architecture to integrate server less and micro services Cl/CD pipelines with Amazon Web Services, custom code development, DataOps, and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) applications; Design, build, and develop rapid Proof-of-Concept (POC) solutions and services; Develop, test, deploy, and operate the service globally using one or more general purpose programming languages; Maintaining the highest levels of development practices, including technical design, solution development, systems configuration, test documentation/execution, issue identification and resolution, and writing clean, modular, and self-sustaining code; Collaborate closely with cross-functional engineering and business teams to gather and understand detailed requirements; Report on project deliverables to stakeholders; and Determine software architecture and ensure quality, security, and compliance. May telecommute. Supervises direct reports.

Requirements

Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field & 6 years of experience in the job offered or in a software development-related occupation
6 years of experience utilizing Cloud Computing Infrastructure Services including AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform to Deploy and Operate Software Applications
6 years of experience utilizing Serverless Programming Technologies including AWS Lambda or Kubernetes to Develop Micro-Service Backend Software Services
6 years of experience utilizing Fullstack Engineering Technologies including Javascript or Nodejs, Html5, CSS to Develop Web-Based Applications
6 years of experience utilizing Mainstream Programming Languages including Java, Javascript, or Python to Develop Custom Software Solutions
6 years of experience utilizing DevOps practices and version control systems such as SVN and Git to develop application platforms that meet software development lifecycle requirements

Responsibilities

Recruit, build and manage software development team, including fulltime employee and contract worker
Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope
Monitor or track project milestones, progress and deliverables to meet deliverable timelines
Direct or coordinate activities of project personnel
Monitor the performance of project team members, providing and documenting performance feedback
Analyze and decompose high-level business needs into actionable tasks and deliverables
Prioritize tasks effectively based on business impact, resource availability, and project timelines
Invent, develop, and extend the internally developed software frameworks to improve efficacy, enhance operational workflows, and deliver advanced and life-changing biotech medicines
Define feature sets for innovative software solutions to meet Amgen's software development needs and DevOps for software implementation and enhancement
Design and improve capabilities across Amgen's cloud security architecture to integrate server less and micro services Cl/CD pipelines with Amazon Web Services, custom code development, DataOps, and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) applications
Design, build, and develop rapid Proof-of-Concept (POC) solutions and services
Develop, test, deploy, and operate the service globally using one or more general purpose programming languages
Maintain the highest levels of development practices, including technical design, solution development, systems configuration, test documentation/execution, issue identification and resolution, and writing clean, modular, and self-sustaining code
Collaborate closely with cross-functional engineering and business teams to gather and understand detailed requirements
Report on project deliverables to stakeholders
Determine software architecture and ensure quality, security, and compliance

Benefits

stock
retirement
medical
life and disability insurance
eligibility for an annual bonus
health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents
financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals
work/life balance
career development opportunities
A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
Stock-based long-term incentives
Award-winning time-off plans
Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible