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Director Software Development Engineering

United States, Thousand Oaks Employment contract 213179.00 - 258666.00 USD / Year · Job Posted May 05, 2026
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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. 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.

Job Responsibility

  • Recruit, build and manage software development team, including fulltime employee and contract worker
  • Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope
  • Monitor or track project milestones, progress and deliverables to meet deliverable timelines
  • Direct or coordinate activities of project personnel
  • Monitor the performance of project team members, providing and documenting performance feedback
  • Analyze and decompose high-level business needs into actionable tasks and deliverables
  • Prioritize tasks effectively based on business impact, resource availability, and project timelines
  • Invent, develop, and extend the internally developed software frameworks to improve efficacy, enhance operational workflows, and deliver advanced and life-changing biotech medicines
  • Define feature sets for innovative software solutions to meet Amgen's software development needs and DevOps for software implementation and enhancement
  • Design and improve capabilities across Amgen's cloud security architecture to integrate server less and micro services Cl/CD pipelines with Amazon Web Services, custom code development, DataOps, and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) applications
  • Design, build, and develop rapid Proof-of-Concept (POC) solutions and services
  • Develop, test, deploy, and operate the service globally using one or more general purpose programming languages
  • Maintaining the highest levels of development practices, including technical design, solution development, systems configuration, test documentation/execution, issue identification and resolution, and writing clean, modular, and self-sustaining code
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional engineering and business teams to gather and understand detailed requirements
  • Report on project deliverables to stakeholders
  • Determine software architecture and ensure quality, security, and compliance
  • Supervises direct reports.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field & 6 years of experience in the job offered or in a software development-related occupation
  • 6 years of experience in Utilizing Cloud Computing Infrastructure Services including AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform to Deploy and Operate Software Applications
  • Utilizing Serverless Programming Technologies including AWS Lambda or Kubernetes to Develop Micro-Service Backend Software Services
  • Utilizing Fullstack Engineering Technologies including Javascript or Nodejs, Html5, CSS to Develop Web-Based Applications
  • Utilizing Mainstream Programming Languages including Java, Javascript, or Python to Develop Custom Software Solutions
  • Utilizing DevOps practices and version control systems such as SVN and Git to develop application platforms that meet software development lifecycle requirements.

What we offer

  • stock
  • retirement
  • medical
  • life and disability insurance
  • eligibility for an annual bonus
  • Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions
  • group medical, dental and vision coverage
  • flexible spending accounts
  • discretionary annual bonus program
  • Stock-based long-term incentives
  • Award-winning time-off plans
  • Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements

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