Senior Manager Information Security

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. 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 be responsible for the direction of DIAS operations, processes, tools, technologies, and team globally. This position demonstrates powerful technologies, and innovative ways to position Amgen for measurable success; improving efficiency, growing security posture, and supporting aggressive growth. The successful candidate manages the enterprise-wide operations, Identity and Access Management program to address Authentication, Provisioning/Deprovisioning, Role Management, Red-Forest Management, Session Management, Password Vaulting, Privileged Account Management, Access Governance, Single Sign On, IAM Analytics, PKI and Certificate Management, User Experience, and API Management. This Sr. Manager is also responsible for the ongoing Run Service for IDM.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the AIN Director DTI Functional Lead for CDT program strategic objectives and operational run metrics, key performance indicators and outcomes

• Develop and curate the global strategy for Identity and Access Management while ensuring its durability, scalability, resilience, and user experience sensitivity

• Direct and guide development of IAM architecture and related technologies

• Responsible for the development and ongoing governance of IAM roadmaps, change management plans, and end user communications

• Manages the design of identity access controls rules, roles, and policies, globally while ensuring consistency regardless of technologies in use

• Liaison with other IS areas and development teams regarding IAM standard methodologies for both on-premise and cloud based solutions for employees, contractors, partners and customers

• Meet all security, privacy, compliance and audit obligations,

• Work closely with Software Architects to propose solutions and provide strategic technical direction across the team

• Management of key directory and identity (LDAP- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) and architectural personnel

• Overall accountability for team operations and technical support

• Lead and develop team members

• Occasional off-hours support may be vital to address outages, pressing system issues, or scheduled deployments present to different levels within and outside of the organization (suppliers, management, sponsors, governance committees, functions etc.)

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree and 8 to 10 years of Information Security experience or related field experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 10 to 14 years of Information Security experience or related field experience OR

• Diploma and 14 to 18 years of Information Security experience or related field experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in DIAS capability areas (Authentication, Provisioning/Deprovisioning, Role Management, Session Management, Privileged Account Management, Access Governance, Single Sign-On, )

• Proven leadership skills with the ability to lead large matrixed teams.

• Experience in driving transformation initiatives using Scaled Agile methodology.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Work experience in the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry.

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering

• Familiarity with GxP standards, Information Security standards and policies like ISO 27001/27002, NIST and others

• Demonstrated ability to lead and work in a global, matrixed organizational structure

• Experience driving a collaborative culture that values technical depth, accountability, and customer service.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Understanding of ITIL processes and implementation.

Professional Certifications

• SAFe for Teams certification (preferred)

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.

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