Career Category Information Systems Job Description Job Description Job Description ABOUT AMGEN Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases, and make people’s lives easier, fuller and longer. We discover, develop, manufacture and deliver innovative medicines to help millions of patients. Amgen helped establish the biotechnology industry more than 40 years ago and remains on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what’s known today. As a Senior Data Engineer at Amgen, you will be responsible for designing and building enterprise knowledge and context capabilities that enable reliable, scalable, and governed AI solutions. The role will focus on developing the foundational services through which AI applications and agents discover, retrieve, understand, and use enterprise information. This includes structured data, documents, business terminology, reference data, metadata, semantic models, business rules, and domain-specific knowledge. The successful candidate will work across data engineering, knowledge management, metadata, search, AI, and platform engineering teams to establish reusable knowledge services rather than building isolated solutions for individual use cases. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring strong technical depth, architectural thinking, and the ability to work with business and scientific stakeholders to translate domain knowledge into scalable data and AI capabilities. Required

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with Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, or comparable modern data platforms.

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with cloud platforms such as AWS, including storage, compute, security, networking, and managed AI services.

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processing unstructured content such as PDF, Microsoft Word, presentations, web content, or scientific and technical documents. Understanding of search and information-retrieval concepts, including indexing, relevance, filtering, ranking, and hybrid search.

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with vector databases, embedding models, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, or large language model applications. Familiarity with metadata-management or data-governance platforms such as Collibra or equivalent tools.

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with reference data, controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, business glossaries, ontologies, or knowledge graphs. Familiarity with agentic AI patterns, orchestration frameworks, tool integration, or Model Context Protocol(MCP).

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implementing authorization, auditability, provenance, and governance for enterprise AI solutions.

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working in a regulated industry such as biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, financial services, or life sciences. Knowledge of scientific, clinical, regulatory, commercial, or enterprise data domains would be advantageous. Basic

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Bachelor’s or Master's degree with 8 - 13 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field Soft Skills: Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills Strong verbal and written communication skills Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams High degree of initiative and self-motivation Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals Strong presentation and public speaking skills EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT 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 with 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 an accommodation. . Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology. Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential. For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen