Senior Director, Digital Transformation – Global Engineering

Amgen • Cambridge, MA

1d • $202,821 - $274,405

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. Senior Director, Digital Transformation – Global Engineering What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this Senior Director, Digital Transformation – Global Engineering vital role, as an enterprise leadership role you will be responsible for defining and executing Engineering’s digital and data transformation strategy. This role will lead the transition from fragmented digital initiatives to a scalable, data-centric operating model, enabling a robust digital thread across the asset lifecycle and establishing the foundation for AI-enabled engineering. The role owns Engineering data governance and digital transformation execution, ensuring that engineering data is treated as a strategic asset—governed, standardized, and embedded within systems of record. This leader will drive enterprise alignment while maintaining global Engineering accountability, partnering closely with Digital Technology Information Systems (DTI), AI teams, and Global Capability Centers (GCCs).

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 5 years of Engineering, Operations and/or Digital Technology experience OR Master’s degree and 9 years of Engineering, Operations and/or Digital Technology experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 11 years of Engineering, Operations and/or Digital Technology experience
• At least 5 years of experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation of resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above.

Nice To Haves

• 15+ years of leadership experience in engineering, digital, data, or technology within pharma or biotech.
• Proven track record leading enterprise digital transformation in complex, global organizations.
• Expertise in enterprise platforms, data governance, and scalable digital solution delivery.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence across senior leaders and cross-functional matrix teams.
• Understanding of engineering operations, GxP environments, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience applying AI/ML, advanced analytics, digital twin, BIM, and FAIR data principles to drive innovation.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into high-impact digital capabilities.
• Lean and/or Six Sigma experience with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Global mindset and flexibility to collaborate across regions and time zones.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the Global Engineering digital transformation (EDT) roadmap aligned with enterprise priorities and data strategy.
• Translate strategy into scalable capabilities, prioritizing high-value data domains including asset management, project, maintenance, and EHS.
• Establish Engineering’s digital operating model by integrating product, data, and platform strategies.
• Lead and operationalize Engineering data governance, including master data, reference data, metadata, and data quality standards.
• Establish and lead an Engineering data champion model across functions.
• Define data ownership, stewardship, and accountability frameworks aligned with enterprise governance.
• Drive adoption of FAIR data principles across Engineering.
• Lead implementation of the Engineering digital thread across capital projects and the asset lifecycle.
• Ensure structured digital turnover into enterprise systems of record.
• Drive integration across SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Product and Portfolio Management (PPM), Building Information Modeling (BIM) / Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), Sphera Software Solutions, and related enterprise platforms.
• Ensure alignment with clean core principles and enterprise architecture standards.
• Lead a global team responsible for delivering transformation programs and strategic initiatives.
• Establish strong governance, performance metrics, and execution discipline.
• Drive measurable value creation in areas such as reliability, capital efficiency, and compliance.
• Govern innovation pipelines and AI use cases to ensure scalability and business impact.
• Partner closely with Digital Technology & Innovation, AI teams, and enterprise data organizations.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Operations, Quality, and EHS to drive aligned execution.
• Define and operationalize Global Capability Centers (GCC) as a core engine for digital, data, and AI capability delivery.
• Establish scalable global delivery models that improve speed, consistency, and cost efficiency.
• Drive adoption of standards, SOPs, and GDEs across the global organization.
• Lead change management efforts to support transformation at scale.
• Build digital and data literacy to strengthen organizational capability and adoption.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global team.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and innovation.
• Create a long-term capability strategy to support sustained transformation and growth.

Benefits

• 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 where possible.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees