Sr. Manager - Digital Technology & Innovation - Sensing

What you will do

Lets do this. Lets change the world. In this vital role you will develop an insight driven sensing capability with a focus on revolutionizing decision making. In this role you will lead the technical delivery for this capability as part of a team data engineers and software engineers. The team will rely on your leadership to own and refine the vision, feature prioritization, partner alignment, and experience leading solution delivery while building this ground-breaking new capability for Amgen. You will drive the software engineering side of the product release and will deliver for the outcomes.

• Lead delivery of overall product and product features from concept to end of life management of the product team comprising of technical engineers, product owners and data scientists to ensure that business, quality, and functional goals are met with each product release
• Drives excellence and quality for the respective product releases, collaborating with Partner teams.
• Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team. Has substantial input into priorities.
• Incorporate and prioritize feature requests into product roadmap; Able to translate roadmap into execution
• Design and implement usability, quality, and delivery of a product or feature
• Plan releases and upgrades with no impacts to business
• Hands on expertise in driving quality and best in class Agile engineering practices
• Encourage and motivate the product team to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency
• Handles progress of work and addresses production issues during sprints
• Communication with partners to make sure goals are clear and the vision is aligned with business objectives
• Direct management and staff development of team members

What we expect of you

As an Information Systems Senior Manager at Amgen, you will be responsible for managing and leading a team of IT professionals to deliver efficient and effective information systems solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional key partners, supervise IT projects, ensure compliance with IT policies and standards, and drive continuous improvement in IT processes. Your strong leadership skills, technical expertise, and strategic mentality will enable you to effectively handle IT operations and contribute to the company's overall success.

• 5+ years of managerial experience directly handling people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources

AND

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of Information Systems experience OR,
• Masters degree and 6 years of Information Systems experience OR,
• Bachelors degree and 8 years of Information Systems experience OR,
• Associates degree and 10 years of Information Systems experience
• Thorough understanding of modern web application development and delivery, Gen AI applications development, Data integration and enterprise data fabric concepts, methodologies, and technologies e.g. AWS technologies, Databricks
• Demonstrated experience in building strong teams with consistent practices.
• Demonstrated experience in navigating matrix organization and leading change.
• Prior experience writing business case documents and securing funding for product team delivery; Financial/Spend management for small to medium product teams is a plus.
• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles.
• Define success metrics for developer productivity metrics; on a monthly/quarterly basis analyze how the product team is performing against established KPIs.

Leadership:

• Influences through Collaboration: Builds direct and behind-the-scenes support for ideas by working collaboratively with others.
• Strategic Thinking: Anticipates downstream consequences and tailors influencing strategies to achieve positive outcomes.
• Transparent Decision-Making: Clearly articulates the rationale behind decisions and their potential implications, continuously reflecting on successes and failures to enhance performance and decision-making.
• Adaptive Leadership: Recognizes the need for change and actively participates in technical strategy planning.

• Strong influencing skills, influence stakeholders and be able to balance priorities.
• Prior experience in vendor management.
• 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.)
• Experience with developing solutions on AWS technologies such as S3, EMR, Spark, Athena, Redshift and others
• Familiarity with cloud security (AWS /Azure/ GCP)
• Conceptual understanding of DevOps tools (Ansible/ Chef / Puppet / Docker /Jenkins)

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) (preferred)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred)
• Certified DevOps Engineer (preferred)
• Certified Agile Leader or similar (preferred)

• Strong desire for continuous learning to pick new tools/technologies.
• High attention to detail is essential with critical thinking ability.
• Should be an active contributor on technological communities/forums
• Proactively engages with multi-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices.
• Influences and energizes others toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and works towards new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable
• Established habit of proactive thinking and behavior and the desire and ability to self-start/learn and apply new technologies
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
• Ability to lead multiple priorities successfully.
• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills.