Associate Director - Software Development Engineering

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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.


Associate Director - Software Development Engineering


What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, you will responsible for leading and charting the course for the Research & Development (R&D) Informatics engineering team that builds and transforms technology capabilities that positively impacts business outcomes. This individual will be responsible for developing and leading a very hardworking team that is built for delivering high-end and innovative technologies.

Maintain strategic relationships and strong communication with the leadership team about IS services and service roadmaps to ensure that all the key customers feel informed and engaged

Lead and run large, diverse teams within a matrixed organization.

Collaborate with geographically dispersed teams, including those in the US and other international locations.

Supervise the software development lifecycle

Develop and implement strategic plans for technology and workforce.

Follow global standards and practices.

Cultivate a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Attract and recruit top talent as part of an extensive Technology organization to be hired within India.

Develop talent, motivate the team, delegate effectively, champion diversity within the team and act as a role model of servant leadership.

Responsible for handling, growing, and developing the Amgen Technology team in India, ensuring global ways of working are imbedded in the local organization

Understand the decision-making process, workflows, and business and information needs of business partners and stakeholders

Contribute and define business outcomes + requirements, technology solutions, and services

Improve activities being measured by crafting, monitoring, and optimizing relevant feedback loops through 'test & learn' activities

Work with Product Owners, Service Owners and/or delivery teams to ensure that delivery matches commitments, acting as a customer concern point and facilitating communication when service commitments are not met

Ensure communication of key performance metrics and analysis of unmet needs

Participate in key customer and other leadership meetings, working with other parts of the organization, and functional groups to ensure successful delivery

Ensure ongoing alignment with strategy, compliance, and regulatory requirements for technology investments and services

Facilitate standard process sharing, ensuring ongoing alignment with the Technology & Digital strategy

Oversee operating budgets and product team budgets, ensuring regular review of actuals and latest estimates, handling according to agreed governance

Ensure alignment of Technology service plans across organization

Provide education to new partners with regards to IT service offerings

Remain accountable for ensuring overall organizational compliance to quality/compliance requirements such as GXP and Privacy

What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The ideal candidate will have a consistent track record of leadership in technology-driven environments that collect data and facilitate R&D activities and has a passion for fostering innovation and excellence in the biotechnology industry. Additionally, collaboration with multi-functional and global teams is required to ensure seamless integration and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in the end-to-end software development lifecycle, evaluation and coaching of software/data/systems engineers and engineering managers, coupled with leadership and transformation experience. This role demands the ability to drive and deliver against key organizational critical initiatives, develop a collaborative environment, and deliver high-quality results in a matrixed organizational structure.


Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 3 years of experience in Business, Engineering, IT or related field
OR

Master’s degree with 10 - 14 years of experience in Business, Engineering, IT or related field
OR

Bachelor’s degree with 14 - 16 years of experience in Business, Engineering, IT or related field
OR

Diploma with 18 - 20 years of experience in Business, Engineering, IT or related field

Prior hands-on experience leading full stack development using infrastructure cloud services (AWS preferred) and cloud-native tools and design patterns (Containers, Serverless, Docker, etc.)

Demonstrated experience building strong teams with consistent practices in a matrix organization.

In-depth knowledge of Agile processes and principles for coordinated solutions and teams via SAFe.

Define success metrics for developer productivity; on a monthly/quarterly basis analyze how the product team is performing against established KPI’s.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in a leadership role within a pharmaceutical or technology organization

Thorough understanding of modern application development, Gen AI application development, microservices, application integration patterns, and enterprise data frameworks for ELT pipelines

Experience developing solutions on cloud platforms, preferably AWS such as Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, DataBricks, Athena, Redshift and others

Experience leading DevSecOps practices and implementing metrics for security, performance, cost, and usage

Strong analytic/critical-thinking and decision-making abilities.

Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Established business partnerships and IS governance practices involving senior business key partners

Broad working knowledge of key IS domains and layers

Professional Certifications:

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) (preferred)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred)

Certified DevOps Engineer (preferred)

Certified Agile Leader or similar (preferred)

Soft Skills:

Excellent leadership and team management skills.

Strong transformation and change management experience.

Exceptional collaboration and communication skills.

High degree of initiative and self-motivation.

Ability to handle multiple priorities successfully.

Team-oriented with a focus on achieving team goals.

Strong presentation and public speaking skills.

Excellent analytical and solving skills

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams

Work Hours: This position requires you to work a later shift and may be assigned a second or third shift schedule. Candidates must be willing and able to work during evening or night shifts, as required. Potential Shifts (subject to change based on business requirements):Second Shift:2:00pm – 10:00pm IST; Third Shift:10:00 pm – 7:00 am IST.


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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