**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. In this vital role you will responsible for developing and maintaining the overall IT architecture of the organization. This role involves defining the architecture vision, creating roadmaps, and ensuring that IT strategies align with business goals in the Hire to Retire capability and more specially to Human Resources processes including Time, Absence and Payroll. You will be working closely with partners to understand requirements, develop architectural blueprints, and ensure that solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards. Architects will be involved in defining the enterprise architecture strategy, guiding technology decisions, and ensuring that all IT projects adhere to established architectural principles. **Roles & Responsibilities:** + Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives within the Workday platform + Create and maintain architectural roadmaps that guide the evolution of IT systems and capabilities within the Workday platform + Establish and implement architectural standards, policies, and governance frameworks + Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their potential impact on the architecture + Maintain comprehensive documentation of the architecture, including principles, standards, and models + Drive continuous improvement in the architecture by finding opportunities for innovation and efficiency + Work with partners to gather and analyze requirements, ensuring that solutions meet both business and technical needs + Evaluate and recommend technologies and tools that best fit the solution requirements with Workday as the main City Planning tool for HR processes + Ensure seamless integration between systems and platforms, both within the organization and with external partners mainly with Workday platform + Design systems that can scale to meet growing business needs and performance demands + Establish and enforce data standards, governance policies, and best practices **What we expect of you** We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. **Basic Qualifications:** + Doctorate degree OR + Master’s degree and 4 to 6 years of Computer Science, IT or related field experience OR + Bachelor’s degree and 6 to 8 years of Computer Science, IT or related field experience OR + Diploma and 10 to 12 years of Computer Science, IT or related field experience **Preferred Qualifications:** **About amgen** Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases, and make people’s lives easier, fuller and longer. We discover, develop, manufacture and deliver innovative medicines to help millions of patients. Amgen helped establish the biotechnology industry more than 40 years ago and remains on the ground breaking of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what’s known today. **About the role** **Role Description:** The role is responsible for developing and maintaining the overall IT architecture of the organization. This role involves defining the architecture vision, creating roadmaps, and ensuring that IT strategies align with business goals in the Hire to Retire capability and more specially to Human Resources processes including Time, Absence and Payroll. You will be working closely with partners to understand requirements, develop architectural blueprints, and ensure that solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards. Architects will be involved in defining the enterprise architecture strategy, guiding technology decisions, and ensuring that all IT projects adhere to established architectural principles. **Roles & Responsibilities:** + Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives within the Workday platform + Create and maintain architectural roadmaps that guide the evolution of IT systems and capabilities within the Workday platform + Establish and enforce architectural standards, policies, and governance frameworks + Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their potential impact on the architecture + Maintain comprehensive documentation of the architecture, including principles, standards, and models + Drive continuous improvement in the architecture by finding opportunities for innovation and efficiency + Work with partners to gather and analyze requirements, ensuring that solutions meet both business and technical needs + Evaluate and recommend technologies and tools that best fit the solution requirements with Workday as the main City Planning tool for HR processes + Ensure seamless integration between systems and platforms, both within the organization and with external partners mainly with Workday platform + Design systems that can scale to meet growing business needs and performance demands + Establish and enforce data standards, governance policies, and best practices **Basic Qualifications and Experience:** + Master’s degree with 4 - 6 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field OR + Bachelor’s degree with 6 - 8 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field OR + Diploma with 10 - 12 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field **Functional Skills:** **Must-Have Skills:** + Strong architectural design and modeling skills + Experience with system integration, IT infrastructure + Experience directing solution design, business processes redesign and aligning business requirements to technical solutions in a regulated environment + Experience working in agile methodology, including Product Teams and Product Development models + Experience with Human Resources processes and Workday Time, Absence & Payroll modules. **[System Architect]** + Systems Analysis: Ability to decompose complex systems into smaller, manageable components. + Design Patterns: Knowledge of common design patterns and their application in software development. + Non-Functional Requirements: Consideration of factors like performance, scalability, security, and reliability in system design. + Integration: Understanding of system integration principles and technologies. + Technology Stack: Familiarity with a variety of programming languages, frameworks, and databases. **Good-to-Have Skills:** + Strong solution design and problem-solving skills + Strong understanding of technology, function, or platform + Experience in developing differentiated and deliverable solutions + Ability to analyze client requirements and translate them into solutions **Professional Certifications (please mention if the certification is preferred or mandatory for the role):** + Workday Time, Absence & Payroll (required) + TOGAF (preferred) + CIA (preferred) **Soft Skills:** + Excellent critical-thinking and problem-solving skills + Strong communication and collaboration skills + Demonstrated awareness of how to function in a team setting + Demonstrated awareness of presentation skills **What you can expect of us** As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way. In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards. **Apply now** **for a career that defies imagination** Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us. **careers.amgen.com**