Sr. Data Scientist - Process Modeling

Amgen • Boston, MA

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About The Position

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients. 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 - Process Modeling. In this vital role you will join the Digital Process and Systems Analysis group within Process Development plays a key role in providing data infrastructure, platforms, and analytics to support engineering teams across our network, ensuring state-of-the-art data insights to drive innovation and efficiency for the commercialization and optimization of Amgen’s pipeline. This group also supports key priorities and the development of strategies for digital process development for both biologic and synthetic moieties. This position is part of a team advancing biologics drug-substance modeling and the digitization of tech-transfer workflows. As new modeling capabilities are developed and information is parameterized, opportunities abound to deploy modeling tools to enable early insights and phase-appropriate decision-making. These capabilities support drug substance development, technology transfer, manufacture, and life-cycle management across Amgen’s global network of manufacturing and development sites. This role will contribute to the success of Drug Substance Technology organization by helping to digitize workflows to drive improvements in technology transfer timelines and ensure right-first-time success. As a Sr. Data Scientist, you will evaluate and improve Amgen’s digital assets, collaborating as part of a multi-disciplinary team of scientists and engineers on a wide range of problems. The position will lead to solutions for open-ended “no single right answer” challenges, including modeling, data pipelines, and visualizations to support drug substance development, tech transfer, and manufacturing. The Sr. Data Scientist will also be responsible for determining, defining, and tracking performance improvements.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree and 2 years of Data Science or Engineering experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of Data Science or Engineering experience OR Associate’s degree and 8 years of Data Science or Engineering experience OR High School diploma or GED and 10 years of Data Science or Engineering experience

Nice To Haves

• MS degree or doctorate in an engineering or scientific field with demonstrated capability in application of data science.
• 3+ years of work experience in biotechnology role (e.g. process engineer, scientist, data scientist)
• Experience with AGILE software development methodologies
• Experience with Databricks, coding languages (Python, SQL), AI Tools (Chat GPT, Codex, GenieCode), React, and BI tools (Spotfire/Tableau/Power BI)
• Experience in developing AI applications for process development workflows and integrating AI solutions into process development business processes
• Experience with process modeling for cell-culture, harvest,and purification scale-up
• Demonstrated performance in application of digital tools to solve analytical problems
• Demonstrated effective written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated leadership and self-direction.
• Demonstrated willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques as well as manage team members and deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Leverage tech-transfer and process-modeling domain knowledge to drive implementation of digital technologies
• Digital Product Ownership of tech-transfer digital applications, focused initially on expansion of digital process-modeling for the DS network
• Change management to integrate tech transfer digital applications into product teams
• Development of data products to enable FAIR data for tech transfer/NPI
• Enable AI Agentic workflows for DST modeling assets
• Collaborate with digital product teams to build and integrate modeling assets into business processes for DST
• Interact cross-functionally with a wide variety of people and teams.
• Work closely with engineers to identify opportunities for process design improvements for Amgen products
• Make business recommendations (cost-benefit, forecasting, scenario analysis) with effective presentation of findings to varied levels of stakeholders
• Contribute to establishing a robust data science strategy by providing recommendations related to process monitoring, data engineering, analytic platforms, analysis plans, and other relevant areas of data science

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