Principal IS Architect

Career Category Information Systems Job Description

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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer.

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.

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Amgen is seeking a Principal Information Systems (IS) Architect to join Amgen’s Digital Identity and Access Services team and will lead the design, integration, and support of Amgen’s identity provisioning and entitlement management environment, as well as related identity-based technologies (e.g. password synchronization, identity attribute management, single sign on, multi-factor authentication, group automation, etc.).

The Principal IS Architect will report to the Sr. Director Information Security based out of Amgen’s Capability Center in Tampa, FL. At Amgen, our mission is simple: to serve patients. Our Tampa Capability Center provides essential services that enable us to better pursue this mission. This state-of-the-art center serves as a base for finance, information systems, and human resources professionals to make a meaningful impact at one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies.

Identity Management at Amgen is a core group responsible for handling all the enterprise directories, identity provisioning and access management / governance solutions, single sign on tools, privileged identity management, PKI and other authentication platforms. This team is at the fore-front of enterprise architecture and security at Amgen and is passionate about providing solutions with great end user experience.

• Provide technical and governance oversight to all IdM projects. Serve as the technical architect in the analysis, design and implementation of all IdM related projects and be responsible for their successful delivery while meeting the overall security and integrity of the solution.
• There is also a need to work with project teams to provide insights about architectural standards and information security standard methodologies.
• Lead the architecture and integration of enterprise secrets-management and non-human identity capabilities. Establish patterns for managing service accounts, application identities, API keys, tokens, certificates, and other secrets across cloud, data, and enterprise platforms.
• Partner with platform and application teams to implement solutions that meet Amgen security standards and integrate with enterprise IAM.
• Provide leadership and day to day operational management, participate in troubleshooting sessions, manage and handle critical issues, guide and lead disaster recovery exercises, plan continuous process improvement, coordinate and handle budgets for staff and other org specific functions/services.
• Management and implementation of technologies and processes relating to assigned Cybersecurity & Digital Trust capability including issue identification…