Sr Data Platform Engineer

At Amgen, we’re passionate about serving patients and discovering new treatments for serious diseases. As a Sr Data Platform Engineer, you’ll lead technical efforts to enable the EDF 2.0 architecture and design platform capabilities for Databricks.

Requirements

• Act as a technical lead for data platform capabilities that enable the EDF 2.0 architecture, with a strong focus on Databricks platform features and services.
• Evaluate and enable Databricks platform capabilities through technical assessments and proof-of-concepts (PoCs), ensuring alignment with EDF 2.0 architectural patterns and enterprise standards.
• Design, build, and productionize reusable platform frameworks, accelerators, and reference implementations that can be leveraged by EDF 2.0 delivery teams (excluding ownership of data pipeline architecture or implementation).
• Enable data governance, Knowledge Layer, and Data-as-a-Product capabilities by designing and implementing platform-level integrations between Databricks and Collibra, Amgen’s enterprise data governance platform.
• Build platform-level tooling and automation to support proactive governance, cost optimization, and best-practice enforcement across Databricks and related data platform services.
• Define and enable platform observability capabilities, including KPIs, metrics, and telemetry for monitoring performance, usage, reliability, and cost of Databricks services.
• Identify and implement governed self-service platform capabilities for data engineers through EDF Manager, using Python-based microservices deployed on Docker and Kubernetes.
• Lead user enablement and adoption initiatives, including onboarding content, guided learning experiences, workshops, and best-practice sharing for the Databricks user community.
• Drive engineering excellence and adoption of AI across platform capabilities and solutions built, promoting modern engineering practices, automation, and responsible use of AI-driven features.

Benefits

• Competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans
• Inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people
• Equal Opportunity employer
• Reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process