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Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer-February 2024
Washington D.C.
Feb 28, 2026
About Senior Data Engineer

  HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION ?

  You’ve worked hard to become the professional you are today and are now ready to take the next step in your career. How will you put your skills, experience and passion to work toward your goals? At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.

  Senior Data Engineer

  Live

  What you will do

  Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be designing and developing robust data models, data pipelines and data products as part of a product team of data scientists, business analysts, and software engineers. The team will rely on your expertise in automating the transformation and manipulation of data to generate insights for QC laboratories across Amgen.

  Responsibilities

  Determinewhich tools and architectures are available for pipeline development based on the data source format and current technologies

  Develop data flow pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from various data sources in various forms, including custom ETL pipelines that enable model and product development

  Build data products and service processes which perform data transformation, metadata extraction, workload management and error processing management to ensure high quality data

  Collaborate with Data Scientists to normalize and clean data inorderto produce robust and high-quality data assets

  Support Data Science team with model design by anticipating and engineering features needed to drive model development and insight generation

  Provide clear documentation for delivered solutions and processes, integrating documentation

  Ensure that data engineering applications are aligned with the overall architectural and development guidelines

  Identify and implement internal process improvements for data management (automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability)

  Partner with business stakeholders and other technical teammembers to identify and acquire data sources that are most relevant to business needs and goals

  Demonstrate deep technical and domain knowledge inorderto propose potential solutions

  Mentor junior data engineers on bestpractices in the industry and in the Amgen data landscape

  Win

  What we expect of you

  We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek will have these qualifications.

  Basic Qualifications:

  Doctorate degree

  OR

  Master’s degree and 3 years of Information Systems experience

  OR

  Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of Information Systems experience

  OR

  Associate degree and 10 years of Information Systems experience

  Or

  High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Information Systems experience

  Preferred Qualifications:

  Handsonexperience writing SQL using any RDBMS (Redshift, Postgres, MySQL, Teradata, Oracle, etc.).

  Proficient in one of the coding languages (Python, Java, Scala)

  Experience with Spark, Hive, Kafka, Kinesis, Spark Streaming, and Airflow.

  Handsonexperience using Databricks/Jupyter or similar notebook environment.

  Preferred Qualifications:

  Experienceworkingwith teams ofdatascientists, software engineers and business experts to drive insights

  Strongunderstanding of relevant data standards and industry trends

  Ability to understand new business requirements and prioritize them for delivery

  Experienceworkingin biopharma/life sciences industry

  Experience with Schema Design & Dimensional data modeling.

  Experience with AWS Services such as EC2, S3, Redshift/Spectrum, Glue, Athena, RDS, Lambda, and API gateway.

  Experience with software DevOps CI/CD tools, such Git, Jenkins, Linux, and Shell Script

  Experienceworkingin an agile environment (i.e. user stories, iterative development, etc.)

  Experienceworkingwithtest-driven development and software test automation

  ExperienceworkinginaProductTeamenvironment

  Thrive

  What you can expect of us

  As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

  Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities including:

  Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical,dentalandvisioncoverage,lifeanddisabilityinsurance, and flexiblespendingaccounts.

  A discretionaryannualbonusprogram, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan

  Stock-based long-term incentives

  Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns

  Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

  Apply now

  for a career that defies imagination

  Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.

  careers.amgen.com

  Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

  We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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