Global Information Protection Specialist Data Engineer

The Specialist Data Engineer is a member of the Global Information Protection (GIP) Metrics & Analytics team responsible for developing, administering, and enhancing Amgen's cybersecurity metrics and analytics platform which collocates GIP's data in a data warehouse on the Enterprise Data Lake (EDL) and structures it in a central repository in preparation for strategic, operational, and tactical reporting for GIP's internal and external stakeholders.

The Specialist will provide hands-on technical leadership for end-to-end solution design, prototyping and development activities. The Specialist will require collaboration with the data warehouse team, service owners, system owners, and external vendors in various time zones to develop, maintain, and enhance GIP's metrics platform.

Key responsibilities:

• Oversee the design and development of solution for on-demand reporting solutions to support key stakeholders
• Lead cross-functional security DevOps team to achieve continuous improvement in cyber defense/resilience
• Collaborate cross-functionally with analysts, engineers, data scientists to identify & prioritize requirements, brainstorm solutions, and clarify business objectives for data-centric solutions to achieve continuous improvement in cyber defense/resilience
• Work with data engineers in the development of Relational Database Service (RDS) structure; overseeing the key technical contributors when assessing and evaluating future reporting solutions
• Work with data engineers to provide clear documentation for delivered solutions and processes, integrating documentation with the appropriate corporate stakeholders
• Ensure continuous exploration and understanding of new tools, and techniques and propose improvements to the data pipeline
• Maintain and upkeep the program's vision and ensure interoperability cost effective and authorized technologies (e.g., cloud environments)
• Develop, implement, and sustain operational scripts, data structures, libraries and programming code that optimize security in emergent compute patterns with diverse applications throughout the global environment
• Analyze, design, develop and operate programs, shell scripts, tests, and infrastructure automation capabilities in an advanced security context
• Assess and leverage new technologies to ensure that the data solutions are stable, efficient, and responsive to appropriate business needs
• Maintain awareness of the changing analytics environment by partnering with Amgen's Analytics team and industry (e.g., AI, machine learning, etc.)
• Take ownership of relevant issues and remediate problems through to completion, to include providing on-call support for data and integration solutions
• Contribute to the Exploration and understanding of new tools, and techniques and propose improvements to the data pipeline
• Assist with data discovery for enhancing reports and designing efficient data stores
• Must have proven experience as a member and leader of a high performing team
• Must be highly motivated and able to work effectively under minimal supervision
• Must have strong communication and organizational skills and customer service focus

Minimum Qualifications

Doctorate degree

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Master's degree and 2 years of Data Science / Data Science Engineering / Product Engineering experience

OR

Bachelor's degree and 4 years of Data Science / Data Science Engineering / Product Engineering experience

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Associate's degree and 10 years of Data Science / Data Science Engineering / Product Engineering experience

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High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Data Science / Data Science Engineering / Product Engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 or more years working in Agile and/or devOps teams (SCRUM)
• Skilled programmer with sufficient experience in high level programming languages such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Visual Basic
• Experience programming in compiled (C, C++) and interpreted languages (Python, Ruby etc.)
• DevOps experience building and deploying infrastructure with cloud deployment, build and test automation technologies like ansible, chef, puppet, docker, jenkins, etc.
• Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift, S3, Lambda
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: MuleSoft, Informatica Cloud, etc.
• Familiarity with various application technology stacks (BI stacks) and technology domains (Data Analytics)
• Working experience with data analytic tools (e.g., Tableau, Splunk, Spotfire, Hadoop)
• Clear understanding of Relational and Dimensional database modeling
• Experience with Big Data, Advanced Analytic techniques and Real Time data
• Full stack development using infrastructure cloud services (AWS preferred) and cloud-native tools and design patterns (Containers, Serverless, Docker, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to adopt new cloud technologies and other paradigms such as emerging Big Data technologies (Hadoop, hive, etc.)
• Exceptional teaming skills encompassing cross-functional teams, peer relationships, informing, understanding and appreciating differences
• Effective communication with senior leadership and medium to large audience discussions / presentations
• Strong ability to convey and influence complex technical issues in a manner that is easily understood and actionable
• Experience applying change management methodologies in large / global corporate environments involving multiple businesses
• Proven adherence to SOPs, methodologies, and policies to include security policies

One or more of the following certifications, including but not limited to:

• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
• CompTIA Security+
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• SANS Global Information Assurance Certifications (GIAC)

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