Data Visualization Scrum Master

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

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.

What You Will Do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world.

The Data Visualization Scrum Master and analyst position offers a unique opportunity to join a fun, innovative engineering team within the Value Management Office Technology organization. You’ll work on next-generation capabilities and services for data visualization.

The role leverages domain and business process expertise to support the team delivering on detail product requirements as epics and user stories, along with supporting artifacts like business process maps, use cases, and test plans for the software development teams. This role involves working closely with developers to ensure that the technical requirements for upcoming development are thoroughly elaborated. This enables the delivery team to estimate, plan, and commit to delivery with high confidence and identify test cases and scenarios to ensure the quality and performance of IT Systems. You will collaborate with Product Managers and developers to maintain an efficient and consistent process, ensuring quality deliverables from the team.

• Collaborate with System Architects and Product Managers to manage business analysis activities, ensuring alignment with engineering and product goals
• Capture the voice of the customer to define business processes and product needs
• Work with Product Managers and customers to define scope and value for new developments
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to prioritize release scopes and refine the Product backlog
• Ensure non-functional requirements are included and prioritized in the Product and Release Backlogs
• Facilitate the breakdown of Epics into Features and Sprint-Sized User Stories and participate in backlog reviews with the development team
• Clearly express features in User Stories/requirements so all team members and collaborators understand how they fit into the product backlog
• Ensure Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done are well-defined
• Work closely with UX to align technical requirements, scenarios, and business process maps with User Experience designs
• Stay focused on software development to ensure it meets requirements, providing proactive feedback to collaborators
• Develop and execute effective product demonstrations for internal and external collaborators
• Maintain accurate documentation of configurations, processes, and changes
• Identify inefficiencies and bottlenecks
• Recommend data-driven solutions for process optimization
  
  

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 - 9 years OR
• Master’s degree and 3 to 7 years of work experience
  
  

• Excellent problem-solving skills and a passion for tackling complex challenges in drug discovery with technology
• Good communication skills and the ability to interface with business leadership with confidence and clarity
• Experience in writing requirements for development of modern web application and/or automation solutions
• Has experience with writing user requirements and acceptance criteria in agile project management systems such as JIRA
• Experience with business process design / re-engineering
  
  

• Experience with Agile software development methodologies (Scrum)
• Experience with data visualization platforms Tableau and PowerBI
• Experience in managing product features for PI planning and developing product roadmaps and user journeys
• Technical thought leadership
• Able to communicate technical or complex subject matters in business terms
• Jira Align experience
• Experience of DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery methodology
  
  

• SAFe for Teams certification (Optional but valuable)
  
  

• Able to work under minimal supervision
• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Demonstrated ability in effectively delegating work
• Excellent analytical and gap/fit assessment skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation
• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully
• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills