Data Acquisition Lead

Amgen; India; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen is seeking a Data Acquisition Lead to drive the acquisition, integration, and quality management of non-CRF external data for clinical trials. You will ensure timely, accurate data ingestion into EDC and related systems, manage external vendors, and uphold regulatory compliance across global studies.

The role requires 8–15 years of clinical execution experience, strong vendor oversight, and solid knowledge of metadata standards and data review workflows. Join Amgen to advance patient care.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with 8–15 years clinical execution experience.
• Experience managing external vendors (CROs, labs, imaging) across geographies.
• Strong knowledge of external data standards, workflows, and EDC systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead acquisition, integration, and quality management of non-CRF external data.
• Define vendor transfer specs and oversee data transfers with suppliers.
• Ensure timely, accurate, compliant ingestion of external datasets into data systems.
• Lead reconciliation activities across the study lifecycle.
• Address data transfer, integration, and quality issues with vendors and study teams.
• Support database lock and inspections readiness with governance teams.
• Drive process improvements for data quality, scalability, and vendor integration.

Skills

Data acquisition

Vendor management

Data quality

ETL

Rave/Veeva

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Rave

Veeva

Job description

Career Category

Clinical

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.

Data Acquisition Lead

What you will do

Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role you will lead the acquisition, integration, and quality management of non-CRF (external/vendor) clinical trial data, ensuring it is timely, accurate, and fit-for-purpose to support study delivery, analytics, with regulatory compliance.

In this vital role, you will lead the acquisition, integration, and quality management of non‑CRF (external/vendor) clinical trial data , ensuring it is timely, accurate, traceable, and fit‑for‑purpose to support study delivery, analytics, database lock, inspections , and regulatory compliance.

• Own the design, setup, and ongoing management of non‑CRF data (e.g., central labs, imaging, wearables, precision medicine), ensuring seamless integration, traceability, and compliant ingestion into EDC and other clinical data systems.
• Own, define, and maintain vendor data transfer specifications and agreements, aligned with protocol, study requirements, and downstream data needs; oversee test and production data transfers with suppliers.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and compliant ingestion of external datasets, proactively reviewing incoming data for quality, completeness, and consistency; resolve formatting, mapping, and data quality issues in collaboration with vendors and study teams.
• Lead reconciliation activities, initiating early and continuous reconciliation throughout the study lifecycle to prevent downstream delays and ensure ongoing data delivery and analysis readiness.
• Own issue and query resolution for external data, troubleshooting data transfer, integration, and consistency issues; elevate data risks, delays, quality concerns, or systemic issues to study teams and governance forums as needed.
• Partner closely with global and local cross‑functional study teams, the role requires experience managing external clinical trial data, strong knowledge of metadata standards, data review workflows, reconciliation methodologies, and EDC systems such as Rave and Veeva.
• Support database lock and inspection readiness, participating in governance and data review meetings, ensuring external data quality, traceability, and documentation standards are met.
• Drive process improvements, automation, and standardization initiatives to improve operational efficiency, scalability, data quality, and vendor integration performance.
• Possess strong operational and process-oriented mindset, effective problem‑solving and risk management skills, strong communication, collaboration abilities and mentoring juniors.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The candidate we seek is an individual with the following qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8 - 15 years of clinical execution experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8 years' work experience in life sciences or medically related field, including 3 years of biopharmaceutical clinical research experience obtained working on clinical trials in a biotech, pharmaceutical or CRO company
• Experience engaging and working across clinical trial teams in multiple geographies to deliver global clinical trials
• Experience in management and oversight of external vendors (e.g., CROs, central labs, imaging vendors, etc.)

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Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability stat