Career Category Information Systems Job Description Semantic Engineer
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.
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What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world.  The Semantic Engineer to help realize Amgen’s Digital Strategy. This program will produce business insights through analytic solutions across the Amgen value chain.  The Semantic Engineer will be part of a team that is developing the Enterprise Data Fabric.  The Data Fabric is composed of data domains which are based on formal ontologies and presented to data scientists and applications in graph and relational formats.  The Enterprise Data Fabric will enable and accelerate the ability of Amgen business leaders to discover insights, optimize business processes and create value.
Key Responsibilities:
• Being hands-on for the development, testing, implementation, and support of data pipelines that load the data domains in the Enterprise Data Fabric and associated data services.
• Collaborating with Semantic Modelers to understand and instantiate the Data Domain formal ontologies into Relational and Knowledge Graph physical designs.
• Collaborating with Amgen platform owners who own and maintain the 2 platforms that the pipelines use:  Databricks and Stardog (a knowledge graph database) in order to build utilities and optimize performance.
• Collaboration with RunOps engineers to continuously increase our ability to push changes into production with as little manual overhead and as much speed as possible.
• Enable data consumers to realize value by understanding their business problem and offering data guidance.
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What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek has these qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate degree
OR
Master’s degree and 3 years of Information Systems experience
OR
Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of Information Systems experience
OR
Associate degree and 5 years of Information Systems experience
OR
High school diploma / GED and 8 years of Information Systems experience
Preferred Qualifications:
• The ability to contribute in a collaborative and fast paced environment
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• 1+ years hands-on experience with Semantic technologies and approaches ( RDF, Triplestores, SPARQL)
• 3+ years of experience designing complex and inter - dependent data models for analytic , Machine learning use cases.
• 3+ years of experience architecting and building processes that extract, process and add value to data sets from multiple source systems.
• Experienced with data modeling and tuning of relational as well as NoSQL datastores (Data-Bricks, Oracle, Red-shift, Impala, HDFS/Hive, Athena, etc.)
• Experience working with distributed computing tools (Spark, Hive, etc.)
• Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift, S3, Lambda
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Airflow,  etc.
• 3+ years of experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, Scala, C, C++, C#, Swift/Objective C, Python, or JavaScript.
• 3+ years experience working with leading agile development methodologies such as Sprint and Scrum
• Experience with Software engineering best-practices, including but not limited to version control (Git, TFS, Subversion, etc.), CI/CD (Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, etc.), automated unit testing, Dev Ops.
• Biotech / Pharma experience is a plus
• Full stack development using infrastructure cloud services (AWS preferred) and cloud-native tools and design patterns (Containers, Serverless, Docker, etc) is a plus.
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.
• Clear and disciplined strategic vision for the future that leverages superior-quality products, operational excellence, and top-shelf-talent
• 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
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. Most recently, Amgen added benefits for transgender employees and continues to pride itself on industry-leading, family-friendly offerings for families of all compositions.
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 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 accommodation.
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Job Type: Full time