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Principal Solution Architect
About the role
Principal Solution Architect at Amgen leading enterprise data architecture for R&D, Operations, and GCO. Drives design, development, and optimization of large‑scale analytics solutions on AWS and Databricks. Collaborates with business, program management, data engineering, and analytics teams to deliver scalable, cost‑effective data platforms. Mentors teams, establishes guidelines, security policies, and change‑management processes. Leads demos, communicates roadmap, and ensures SLA compliance for uptime, performance, and capacity. Applies expertise in data integration, data management, BI stack, Python, PySpark, SQL, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Tableau, PowerBI, and cloud resource optimization. Operates within SAFe Agile/Scrum framework, continuously improving deployment velocity with RunOps. Passionate about emerging data technologies and life‑science domain.
What you’ll do
- Implement & manage large-scale data analytics aligned with Amgen Data strategy
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver data solutions
- Design, develop, optimize, deliver, support data solutions on AWS & Databricks
- Leverage AWS to build scalable, efficient data solutions
- Mentor team, promote innovation & best practices
- Experiment rapidly with emerging data technologies
- Define guidelines, standards, security & change management for Enterprise Data platform
- Align with EARB, Cloud Infra, Security leaders on Enterprise Data Architecture
- Drive Enterprise Data Platform growth, lead demos, communicate effectively
- Manage Enterprise Data Platform on AWS, ensure cost-effectiveness & SLA compliance
- Ensure scalability, reliability, performance via architecture best practices
- Collaborate with RunOps to accelerate production deployments
- Stay updated on data integration, management, analytics trends
- Operate within SAFe Agile/Scrum framework
What you’ll bring
Master’s degree 12-15 yrs OR Bachelor’s 14-17 yrs in CS/IT
Nice to have
- Preferred: life science/tech/consultative architecture
- Preferred: Agile (Scaled Agile)
- Preferred: AWS Data Engineer cert
- Preferred: Databricks cert