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Associate Software Engineer

Employer
Amgen
Location
Tampa, FL
Start date
Sep 13, 2021

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Discipline
Engineering, Software Engineer
Required Education
High School or equivalent
Position Type
Contract
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ASSOCIATE SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Would you like to take your full stack engineering skills and help deliver the world's most advanced and life-changing biotech medicines by building creative and groundbreaking software frameworks? We are seeking a Associate Software Engineer in Amgen's Global Commercial IS team, supporting the US Coverage and Pricing business organization.

This position is responsible for designing and building secure, compliant, scalable solutions for the US Contracts and Pricing product working with other Platform/Product Owners, Architects, and within the broader technology team to develop products aligned with best practices. The Contracts and Pricing product team provides platforms and technologies for contract operations which includes processing transactions from pharmaceutical wholesalers, payment of discounts and fees to payers and providers, and government price reporting. The role will be responsible for delivering the backlog of product capabilities, roadmap planning, develop and adopt best practices, and optimize engineering for CI/CD in a Dev/Ops environment.

The Associate Software Engineer must have an excellent understanding of computer science and a demonstrated willingness to learn and apply new technology. The candidate must processes superior technical aptitude, intellectual curiosity, written and oral communications skills, and the ability to deal effectively with people in a wide variety of situations. Additionally, the candidate must possess strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving ability. Previous experience exercising high levels of initiative, judgment, and diplomacy preferred. Proven ability to operate in high pressure situations, successfully handle multiple priorities, and possess a high level of discipline while remaining flexible.

Job Responsibilities:

With guidance, applies knowledge of basic principles, methods and practices to simple and moderately complex assignments as follows:

  • Capture, negotiate, decompose and derive user stories for backlog grooming and agile ceremonies.
  • Work with team members on elements of the pipeline and add, refactor, and improve capabilities across our architecture and our continuous CI/CD pipeline.
  • Participate in efforts to design, build, and develop solutions and services.
  • Help develop, test, deploy, and operate the service.
  • Create automated test scripts leveraging Selenium/UFT to use across the system.
  • Work with platform expertise to understand the system data model, configurations, architectures, to design and build for merge & acquisition data conversion and validation packages.
  • Develop and maintain shared code libraries and facilitate training and adoption by other developers from other IS organizations while finding opportunities for reusability
  • Participate in Agile meetings to contribute with development strategies and product roadmap

Basic Qualifications
Bachelors degree
OR
Associates degree with 4 years of Programming or Computational Science experience
OR
High School Diploma/GED with 6 years of Programming or Computational Science experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in Computer science or IT related field.
  • Understanding of agile methodology & DevOps (Jenkins, Docker, JIRA, Gitlab) frameworks
  • Familiar with data analysis and reporting experience by using analytics, visualization and database technologies (Oracle, PL SQL, Spotfire, Tableau, Python NumPy, SciPy, Pandas)
  • Knowledge of pharmaceutical revenue management system is a strong plus.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills and technical expertise to be able to communicate effectively with business and technology partners.
  • Experience in Software Engineering and Development
  • Experience in Cloud platforms (AWS, Databricks)
  • Experience in developing and supporting web applications including familiarity with web technologies and frameworks (EXTJS, D3 JS, React.js)
  • Experience in relational database fundamentals, and software quality methodology
  • Knowledge of or experience in Life, Physical or Computational Sciences
  • Strong written and oral communication skills

Our culture is what makes Amgen a special place to work. We have a powerful shared purpose around our mission to serve patients. We respect one another, recognize contributions, and have embedded collaboration, trust, empowerment and inclusion in all that we do.

We equip all our staff members to live well-rounded, healthy lives. Amgen provides benefits for transgender employees and continues to pride itself on industry-leading, family-friendly offerings for families of all compositions.

Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and uses its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve peoples lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the worlds leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.

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.

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.


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.

Company

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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Website
Phone
805-447-1000
Location
Corporate Headquarters
One Amgen Center Drive
Thousand Oaks
California
91320-1799
United States

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