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Job Description

Are you eager to take your process automation and continuous improvement and use them in creative new ways to build groundbreaking software that helps develop life-changing biotech medicines? Amgen is using state of the art technology to build new drug therapies for patients that address grievous illnesses.

We are seeking a Senior Automation Engineer in the JAPAC region to join our Automation team to help drive productivity through the company leveraging technology to unlock opportunities to stop, optimize processes and then automate as appropriate

Key job responsibilities:

To be successful in this role, you will need to:

Responsibilities:

• Lead development on high profile and complex automation projects to ensure quality and timely delivery of projects by working closely with the cross functional team members
• Hands on development using multiple automation technologies
• Lead automation efforts from design, build, and test of solution and build them to scale.
• Work with process subject matter experts (SMEs) and Architects
• Collaborate with business partners to understand how automation can improve workflow and productivity
• Work closely with other teams and Process Engineers to identify, stop, simplify business process waste to codify into automated solutions and platforms.
• Build re-useable component that can expedite process to delivery

A day in the life:

• You are leading from the front engaging with business functions across the company hand in hand with the Automation architects
• Build a lot of POC demos to show the technical feasibility and the value to business users
• Work in a team of automation engineers of internal staff and suppliers to drive these outcomes
• Translate process automation opportunities into technical designs that can be automated by engineers such as yourself.
• Build automations using multiple technologies like RPA, Cognitive, Cloud native, python etc. and deliver value to end users within the company
• Working with multiple cultures and being able to influence outcomes

About the Team:

The Process Simplification and Automation team is part of the Digital technology and Innovation organization at Amgen that is focused on helping improve staff experience, unlock productivity and improving quality leveraging technology to identify inefficient processes, foster simplification of processes and help automate these revised processes to unlock value. This is a highly visible team with a remit to help shape the future pipeline of Amgen products by unlocking value

Our customers include Amgen staff and various organization within functions such as Amazon's internal and external financial community across the globe. Our teams are group of high-energy, motivated doers that want to improve the lives of our partners through continuous productivity improvement via the use of automation software technologies.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong customer service focus with the proven ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with team members, stakeholders, and management.  Demonstrate strong collaboration across all levels of the organization. Assertive and confident in raising action points with senior individuals with excellent spoken and written communication.
• 2+ years’ experience working with automation and process intelligence software (e.g., Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, UiPath, Celonis etc.). Knowledge of other Intelligent Automation platforms and technologies such as Machine Learning, Citizen Development, Business process Management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong written and oral communication skills with scientific domain expertise to communicate optimally with various partners within the organization
• Knowledge of fluent Mandarin would be a plus.
• Experience working with Agile development methodologies (such as Sprint and Scrum) and DevOps
• 3 - 5 years’ experience designing, developing, deploying, and operating RPA and end to end automated solutions/platforms across SaaS, Cloud and On-prem
• Expertise in programming/scripting languages, including but not limited to: Java, C, C++, Swift/Objective C, Python, Go, C#, JavaScript, Visual basic etc.
• Experience doing full stack development including infrastructure cloud services (Storage, VMs, Network, etc.) as well as application and user experience in a continuous CI/CD pipeline environment
• Experience in and certifications for leading automation software platforms (e.g., UiPath, Automation Anywhere, BluePrism, PowerAutomate etc.)
• Experience in building machine learning, OCR and NLP solutions
• Experience in SQL and database concepts to write queries to build automations
• Possess knowledge of functional support systems (e.g., Workday, SFDC, SAP)