Talent Growth & People Leadership: Lead, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of engineers, fostering an environment that encourages learning, collaboration, and innovation. Focus on nurturing future leaders and providing growth opportunities through coaching, training, and mentorship.
Work with Product Owners, Service Owners and developers/testers to ensure that delivery matches commitments, acting as a critical issue point and facilitating communication when service commitments are not met
Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of software products and platform capabilities. Ensure releases ship on time, stay within scope and budget, deliver measurable value, and meet business objectives.
Oversee the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, high-performance software systems and services, including APIs, application backends, web and mobile frontends, and integrations. Champion sound engineering practices such as modular design, secure coding, automated testing, CI/CD, and operational observability.
Oversee the software development lifecycle using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Basic Qualifications and Experience
Master’s degree with 10 - 15 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field OR
Bachelor’s degree with 12 - 17 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field OR
5+ years of experience managing a team of software engineers.
Functional Skills
Must-Have Skills
Excellent leadership and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
Experienced with software engineering best practices, including but not limited to version control (Git, Subversion, etc.), CI/CD (Jenkins, Maven etc.), automated unit testing, and Dev Ops.
Experience working with agile development methodologies such as Scaled Agile.
Success in mentoring and developing strong product analysts, business analysts, and developers
Demonstrated experience in managing technology initiatives and teams with a track record of successful innovation.
Exceptional collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills to effectively manage stakeholder relationships and build new partnerships.
Good-to-Have Skills
Working knowledge of integrations and tools such as MuleSoft and Databricks
Strong analytic/critical-thinking and decision-making abilities
Established business partnerships and IS governance practices involving senior business stakeholders
Broad working knowledge of key IS domains and layers
Proficiency with AI tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot
Preferred Education and Professional Certifications
SAFe for Teams (or other SAFe certification)
Data Engineering / Data Analytics certification — Databricks preferred; major cloud equivalents also valued
Salesforce certifications such as Administrator, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, or Architect
Soft Skills
Excellent leadership and team management skills.
Strong transformation and change management experience.
Exceptional collaboration and communication skills.
High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully.
Team-oriented with a focus on achieving team goals.
Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT
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.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.
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