Data Scientist - (Remote U.S.)

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like you're part of something bigger, it's because you are. 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. We are global collaborators who achieve together-researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It's time for a career you can be proud of. Join us.

Data Scientist

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What you will do

Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role you will:

Business Understanding

• Work with business functions to understand, identify, and prioritize opportunities that deliver business value in order to propose potential analytics solutions
• Develop cross-functional understanding of the business/data landscape and how it impacts the client
• Ensure feasibility by converting business problem into data modelling goals, requirements, and parameters

Design and Modelling

• Collaborate with data engineers, IS, and stakeholders to identify data and sources to be used in models
• Analyze newly ingested data sets using exploratory data analysis and parse out issues, including identifying missing data and harmonizing the data
  
  • Leverage data engineers in data cleaning process in order to produce robust and high-quality data sets
• Work closely with Data Engineers to engineer features for models based on initial analyses of data, problem space understanding, and sound technical reasoning
• Consider modelling assumptions keeping in mind data complexity and target solution, and then select modelling techniques based on initial analyses of data (e.g. sparsity, class imbalance, importance of precision vs. recall etc.)
• Build and optimize machine learning models for scalability using big data and/or other high performance computing technologies

Evaluation

• Assess model accuracy, relevance, and validity and compare output against defined data modelling goals
• Conduct error analyses from modelling results
• Collaborate with IS (data engineers, data architects, and data analysts) in model production and deployment of data science solutions when automatically integrated into business processes
• Summarize and present key visualized insights in support of decision making to help evaluate strategic options that support data and analytics transformation
• Evaluate model results with technical and non-technical stakeholders, acting as a technical translator and relating insights back to the business strategy and key metrics

Continuous Learning

• Stay current with and adopt creative analytical methodologies, tools, and applications to ensure high quality and efficient solutions via literature review of current state of methods, publication and dissemination of results via internal forums
• Deepen understanding of industry principles and business trends and apply learnings to institutionalize best practices, machine learning, and AI into Amgen processes seamlessly

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

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's degree and 10 years of Information Systems

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

What you can expect of us

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

• Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization
• Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
• Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits

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for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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Join Us

If you're seeking a career where you can truly make a difference in the lives of others, a career where you can work at the absolute forefront of biotechnology with the top minds in the field, you'll find it at Amgen.

Amgen, a biotechnology pioneer, discovers, develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics. Our medicines have helped millions of patients in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses.

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 but compete intensely to win. Together, we live the Amgen values as we continue advancing science to serve patients.

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