Associate Director - Information Systems

Amgen
Thousand Oaks, CA, United States
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
4 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Agile Methodology Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Data Analysis Apache HTTP Server Clinical Data Management Clinical Data Repository Information Systems Data Architecture Data Governance Data Security
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DevOps R (Programming Language) Python (Programming Language) Metadata Scrum Methodology Release Management SQL Databases System Availability Technical Debt Data Strategy Gitlab Data Lakes Information Technology Data Management Docker Databricks

Job description

Lets do this. Lets change the world. In this vital role, you will serve as the Associate Director and product leader for the Clinical Data Hub (CDH) product team within the Clinical Design and Analysis (CDA) - Digital, Technology & Innovation (DTI) organization. You will set the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for CDH as a trusted, scalable clinical data foundation that enables discovery, integration, governance, and reuse of clinical development data. This role is critical to accelerating study onboarding, improving data availability and quality, enabling analytics and AI-ready data, and increasing the speed and probability of successful product development and commercialization.

What youll be doing:

  • Establish and maintain senior partnerships across Clinical Development, Data Management, Biostatistics, Clinical Operations, Safety, Regulatory, Precision Medicine, and DTI to define and execute the CDH strategic roadmap.
  • Own and communicate the CDH product vision, multi-year roadmap, investment priorities, and measurable outcomes in alignment with clinical development and enterprise data strategy.
  • Champion scalable data products, common data standards, metadata, governance, security, discoverability, and interoperability capabilities that simplify data access and reuse across studies and functions.
  • Lead product portfolio planning, manage and prioritize the product backlog and budget, and make transparent trade-off decisions across platform reliability, regulatory compliance, technical debt, and delivery of new capabilities.
  • Provide strategic and people leadership for a cross-functional product team; develop product, technical, and delivery capabilities while creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Develop and execute workforce, capability, and resource strategies, including talent development, succession planning, vendor/partner management, and effective use of internal and external resources to support the CDH strategy.
  • Collaborate closely with data, analytics, platform, infrastructure, architecture, security, validation, DevOps/RunOps, and other product teams to deliver end-to-end value and dependable operations.
  • Establish effective product governance and performance management practices, using business outcomes, adoption, operational health, cost, quality, and stakeholder feedback to guide investment and strategic decisions.
  • Represent CDH in senior leadership forums, communicate strategy, progress, risks, dependencies, and investment needs, and build alignment on decisions that impact the broader clinical data ecosystem.
  • Anticipate emerging business and technology needs and translate trends in clinical data, analytics, AI, and digital capabilities into opportunities to evolve the CDH product strategy and long-term roadmap.

Requirements

  • Doctorate degree and 4 years of Information Systems and/or Computer Science and/or Biology experience
  • Or Masters degree and 8 years of Information Systems and/or Computer Science and/or Biology experience
  • Or Bachelors degree and 10 years of Information Systems and/or Computer Science and/or Biology experience
  • Or Associates degree and 12 years of Information Systems and/or Computer Science and/or Biology experience
  • Or High school diploma / GED and 14 years of Information Systems and/or Computer Science and/or Biology experience
  • In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have a minimum of 4 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, products, programs, or directing the allocation of resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above., * Domain knowledge of Clinical Development data and processes, including clinical data management, study execution, data standards, governance, and regulated environments.
  • Product Management or Product Owner experience leading enterprise data, analytics, or platform products, with a demonstrated track record of delivering measurable business outcomes, adoption, resilience, and compliance.
  • Strong strategic thinking, learning agility, and technical leadership, with the ability to translate complex business, data, and technology challenges into strategy, investment priorities, and actionable plans.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders across Clinical Development and DTI, align priorities, resolve complex issues, and drive decisions and outcomes.
  • Experience with product strategy, multi-year roadmaps, portfolio prioritization, resource planning, and Agile product delivery, including discovery, backlog management, release planning, and Scrum or scaled Agile practices.
  • Strong understanding of modern data architecture and engineering, including cloud, data lakes/lakehouses, APIs, metadata, data quality and lineage, security, DevOps, and analytics/AI. Experience with AWS, Databricks, Apache technologies, Python, R, SQL, Docker, and GitLab is preferred.
  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills. Able to communicate strategy, business value, risks, and decisions to diverse audiences. Skilled at delivering impactful presentations and building trusted partnerships across functions, geographies, and organizational levels.

Benefits & conditions

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of 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 that may include:

  • 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. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.

About the company

At Amgen, if you feel like youre part of something bigger, its because you are. Our shared missionto serve patients living with serious illnessesdrives all that we do.

Since 1980, weve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the worlds toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease we reach millions of patients each year. 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, youll 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, youll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career., As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease., We are all different, yet we have this in common: our mission to serve patients. This sense of shared purpose is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. It guides us as we continue to launch new medicines and reach millions of patients worldwide.

We live the mission.

We win together.

We thrive on continual challenge.

Our team of 22,000+ scientists and professionals worldwide bring distinct perspectives and experiences to all we do. We leverage our global talent to achieve together-to research, manufacture and deliver ever-better products and greater depth to our mission.

At Amgen, there is a strong correlation between our high level of diversity and performance. Because addressing issues with a wider range of perspectives and approaches leads to more creative problem-solving. Together, we’re transforming the promise of science and biotechnology into therapies that have the power to restore health.

Connect with us to explore how you can Win, Live, and Thrive at Amgen.

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