Sr Associate Software Engineer

Career Category

Information Systems

Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s 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, you’ll 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, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Sr Associate Software Engineer

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will contribute to the design, development, implementation, integration, and ongoing support of scalable software, data, and automation solutions that meet R&D Commercialization business needs and advance Amgen’s mission to serve patients.

Working closely with product managers, analysts, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders, the Senior Associate Software Engineer translates business and technical requirements into secure, reliable, maintainable, and scalable solutions. The role contributes throughout the software development lifecycle, including solution design, development, configuration, testing, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and production support.

The Senior Associate Software Engineer independently delivers moderately complex technical work and owns assigned applications, solutions, or workstreams from design through production support. The engineer contributes to software-engineering standards, code quality, DevOps automation, system observability, operational reliability, technical documentation, and continuous improvement. Depending on business needs, work may span application development, data engineering, APIs and system integrations, cloud and container platforms, workflow automation, low-code solutions, and AI-enabled capabilities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• •Design, develop, configure, test, deploy, and support scalable enterprise software applications, platform capabilities, APIs, integrations, interfaces, reports, and automation solutions
• •Own the technical implementation of assigned user stories and workstreams in collaboration with product managers, analysts, architects, engineers, and other technical team members
• •Analyze business, functional, and technical requirements and translate them into technical designs, implementation tasks, data flows, integration patterns, and testable acceptance criteria
• •Develop production-ready applications, services, and automation solutions using Python, SQL, and other approved programming, scripting, workflow, and low-code technologies
• •Design, develop, and support data pipelines, transformations, integrations, and data-quality controls using technologies such as Python, SQL, PySpark, Databricks, and APIs
• •Develop and maintain APIs, web services, microservices, event-driven solutions, and enterprise application integrations
• •Contribute to front-end and back-end development using Amgen-preferred frameworks, platforms, and development tools
• •Build and deploy containerized solutions using Docker, Kubernetes platforms managed through Rafay, and applicable AWS container services such as ECR, EKS, ECS, or Fargate
• •Support DevOps and continuous-delivery practices, including source control, automated builds, CI/CD pipelines, release coordination, environment management, infrastructure automation, and deployment validation
• •Develop and maintain unit, integration, regression, and automated tests to improve solution quality and reduce recurring defects
• •Participate in peer reviews, code reviews, and technical design reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring adherence to established engineering standards
• •Monitor application, integration, and data-pipeline health using logging, alerting, and observability tools
• •Troubleshoot production incidents, software defects, integration failures, data issues, and performance problems; perform root-cause analysis and implement durable corrective actions
• •Manage or support application secrets, certificates, authentication, authorization, identity integrations, and other application security controls
• •Apply secure coding, access-control, data-protection, vulnerability-management, and applicable Amgen quality and compliance requirements throughout the software lifecycle
• •Rapidly develop prototypes and proofs of concept to evaluate technologies, demonstrate proposed solutions, and validate technical approaches
• •Create and maintain architecture diagrams, technical designs, API and integration specifications, configuration documentation, deployment procedures, operational runbooks, and support materials
• •Identify technical risks, delivery constraints, security concerns, and cross-system dependencies, escalating issues when broader architectural or leadership support is required
• •Participate actively in Agile or Scrum ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, demonstrations, retrospectives, and continuous-improvement activities
• •Share technical knowledge and provide guidance to team members on assigned technologies, applications, and engineering practices
• •Responsibly use approved AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, testing, documentation, and code quality
• •Identify opportunities to incorporate AI-enabled capabilities into business applications, automation solutions, and internal developer tools while complying with security, privacy, and quality requirements

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a person with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications and Experience:

• •Master’s degree and 3 years of Information Systems experience
• OR Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of Information Systems experience
• OR Associate’s degree and 6 years of Information Systems experience
• OR High school diploma / GED and 8 years of Information Systems experience
• •Demonstrated experience developing, integrating, deploying, or supporting enterprise software or data solutions
• •Proficient in Python and SQL
• •Experience working with cloud, data, automation, or enterprise application platforms
• •Ability to independently deliver moderately complex technical assignments while collaborating effectively within a cross-functional team
• •Ability to quickly learn unfamiliar technologies, platforms, and business processes
• •Interest in Amgen-preferred platforms/tools such as Databricks, AWS, and others
• •Eagerness to learn and grow in a software development environment

Functional Skills:

Must-Have Skills

• •Strong understanding of software architecture, modular development, design patterns, and maintainable application design
• •Proficiency in developing production-ready applications, services, data solutions, or automation using Python
• •Proficiency in SQL, relational data concepts, data transformations, and troubleshooting data-related issues
• •Strong ability to debug, investigate, and resolve software, integration, infrastructure, and data problems
• •Experience developing automation solutions using Python and one or more scripting, workflow automation, or low-code technologies such as PowerShell, Bash, Power Automate, Power Apps, or n8n
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