Specialist IS Architect

Join Amgen’s mission of serving patients. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do. Since 1980, we’ve pioneered the world of biotech in our fight against tough diseases, focusing on Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease. As part of the Amgen team, you’ll help research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to millions, making a lasting impact on patients' lives while advancing your career in a collaborative, innovative, and science-based culture.

About the role

As a Specialist IS Architect, you will lead the design and architecture efforts for workforce planning and scenario modeling systems to support Amgen’s Workforce Strategy and Planning processes. This role involves close collaboration with HR and business leaders to translate workforce planning requirements into scalable technology solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and architecture of workforce planning and scenario modeling systems.
• Collaborate with HR and business leaders to understand and translate workforce planning requirements into technology solutions.
• Drive the implementation and integration of workforce planning tools such as Workday Adaptive Planning, Orgvue, and Anaplan Workforce Planning into Amgen's ecosystem.
• Serve as the technical lead for HR technology projects, ensuring alignment with business needs and Amgen's broader technology strategy.
• Mentor less experienced team members and foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
• Participate in the SAFe Agile framework, leading architectural discussions, developing technical roadmaps, and ensuring alignment with product teams.
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies in HR and workforce planning, recommending and implementing best practices.
• Coordinate and perform testing functionality prior to UAT rollout, including building test scripts and validating capabilities.
• Log change requests into SNOW for production release and provide production and integration support.
• Partner with integration teams to build data exports for Enterprise Data Fabric and integrate Workday data with Workday Adaptive.
• Build technical workflows, roadmaps, and lead technical discussions.
• Document systems design and processes for HR technology.
• Develop scripting languages for backend systems and configure setup for new systems.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Business Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 2 years of experience in the job offered or a related HR occupation.
• Experience with Orgvue design setup, including managing baselines for function-specific design sessions, configuring properties, lookup tables, and managing access as an admin.
• Experience with Anaplan workforce planning, financial planning, and strategic workforce planning to assist in HR transformation projects.
• Experience with Workday or Workday Adaptive workforce planning or HCM.
• Experience working within a SAFe Agile framework.
• Understanding of Project Management principles and full lifecycle.
• Experience in building technical workflows, roadmaps, and leading technical discussions.
• Experience with DevOps lifecycle.
• Experience in workforce planning and modeling to support HR transformation, with an understanding of planning systems and end-to-end processes.

Pay

The annual salary for this position in the U.S. is $144,278.00 – $178,436.00 per year.

Benefits

• Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions.
• Group medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Discretionary annual bonus program or sales-based incentive plan.
• Stock-based long-term incentives.
• Award-winning time-off plans.
• Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements where possible.