Director, Scientific Compute & AI Platforms

Amgen Inc.

3.6

(9)

Hyderabad, India

Why you should apply for a job to Amgen Inc.:

  • 67% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 78% would recommend this company to other women
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Flexible work models that empower staff members to work where and when they are most productive
  • Award-winning PTO plan and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns
  • With 11 Employee Resource Groups, 60 chapters & 11000 members everyone has opportunity to connect, network & foster a culture of belonging
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    Position summary

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    • Govern capacity, cost, and quality: quotas, GPU utilization, $/compute-hour, and SLA attainment.

    • Partner on schemas, vocabularies, lineage, and compliance with Reseach data stewards.

    • Coordinate instrument onboarding and lab software integrations with RA&T.

    • Mentor and grow L5/L4 engineers; develop on-call rotations and technical leadership bench.

    Core Competencies

    • Enterprise strategy, product/platform thinking, and financial acumen.

    • Global change leadership; cross-cultural communication across time zones.

    • Platform engineering literacy: containers/Kubernetes; workflow orchestration (Nextflow/Airflow/Argo/Prefect).

    • Compute literacy: HPC schedulers (Slurm) and/or distributed compute (Spark/Ray/Databricks).

    • Data governance literacy: schemas, vocabularies, lineage, and compliance.

    • Executive communication; stakeholder management across science, engineering, and operations.

    Qualifications

    • Basic: Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree (MSc/PhD) preferred

    • Scientific literacy: Training and experience in chemistry, biology, or related scientific fields

    • Domain literacy: Familiarity with R&D domains (biology, chemistry, protein science, computational sciences) and experience partnering closely with scientists.

    • Technical literacy: Python plus one of Java/Scala/C++; containers/Kubernetes; workflow orchestration; HPC schedulers; distributed compute; data lakehouse; CI/CD

    • Experience: 18-24 years in platform/software/data leadership with cross-region operations; budget/vendor management; policy/standards influence

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    Why you should apply for a job to Amgen Inc.:

  • 67% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 78% would recommend this company to other women
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Flexible work models that empower staff members to work where and when they are most productive
  • Award-winning PTO plan and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns
  • With 11 Employee Resource Groups, 60 chapters & 11000 members everyone has opportunity to connect, network & foster a culture of belonging