Principal, Data Strategy and Governance (DG Lead)

Amgen; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen seeks a Principal (Data Strategy & Governance) to shape enterprise data governance, data foundation, and governance collaboration with leadership and business functions. You will advance data maturity through FAIR and enterprise data strategies across Amgen.

You will lead governance frameworks, partner with MDM, define risk controls, and mentor data professionals while ensuring regulatory compliance and audit readiness across global functions.

Qualifications

• 12–16 years of relevant experience in data governance and data management.
• Strong ability to define and execute governance frameworks and playbooks.
• Experience with enterprise data governance frameworks and data quality programs.
• Expertise in data governance and at least one data management capability (data quality, MDM, etc.).
• Proven ability to articulate the value of governance initiatives.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and operationalize enterprise-wide data governance frameworks, policies, standards, and operating models.
• Engage with business functions to lead data governance for AI, analytics, and digital programs.
• Drive data governance maturity through FAIR across Amgen.
• Define and align the data governance capability roadmap with enterprise data strategy goals.
• Establish data governance councils, stewardship forums, and data ownership models.
• Identify opportunities to modernize governance for AI-ready, trusted data.
• Define governance operating models for critical data elements and domains.
• Develop and own data mapping processes for critical data in key business processes.
• Establish mechanisms to manage data risks, issues, and escalations.
• Drive adoption of data governance, data products, and metadata governance frameworks.
• Partner with Enterprise MDM to govern master and reference data standards.
• Support audit-readiness and regulatory inspections; conduct data governance risk assessments.
• Define data governance controls in compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Data Product managers to realize value from governance initiatives.
• Build governance controls for data products and AI-ready data.
• Help operationalize framework for unstructured data at enterprise level.
• Identify opportunities and drive AI-driven interventions in data stewardship lifecycle.
• Provide thought leadership to advance governance capability.
• Coach and mentor data management professionals.
• Manage vendor relations and governance tools implementation.

Skills

Years of data governance experience

Define and execute data governance

Enterprise data governance

Data governance & data quality/MDM

Value articulation of governance

Stakeholder management

Navigating stakeholders ecosystem

Tools

Collibra

MDM/Data quality platforms

Job description

What You Will Do

Let's do this. Let's change the world! This role as Principal (Data Strategy & Governance) at Amgen plays a key part in defining and operationalizing Data governance collaboration with the leadership for Data Foundation and Governance and Amgen business functions. This role requires engaging with Business functions and help in progressing with the data maturity journey at Amgen through FAIR and enterprise data strategy.

What You Will Do

Let's do this. Let's change the world! This role as Principal (Data Strategy & Governance) at Amgen plays a key part in defining and operationalizing Data governance collaboration with the leadership for Data Foundation and Governance and Amgen business functions. This role requires engaging with Business functions and help in progressing with the data maturity journey at Amgen through FAIR and enterprise data strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and operationalize Enterprise-wide data governance frameworks, policies, standards, and operating models
• Engage with business functions to lead and drive data governance for top priority initiatives such as AI, analytics, and digital programs
• Drive Data governance maturity across Amgen through FAIR
• Define and align the data governance capability roadmap required to deliver the enterprise data strategy goals
• Establish Data governance councils, stewardship forums, and data ownership models
• Identify opportunities to modernize data governance to generate AI-ready, trusted, and reusable data
• Define and establish governance operating models for critical data elements and business domains
• Develop and own process to data mapping for critical data in key business processes
• Establish and facilitate mechanism to manage data risks, issues, and escalations
• Define and drive adoption of data governance, data products, and metadata governance frameworks
• Partner with Enterprise MDM to govern master and reference data standards
• Support audit-readiness and regulatory & compliance inspections. Conduct data governance risk assessments
• Define and establish Data governance controls in compliance with regulatory requirements
• Partner with Data Products managers to drive value realization of data governance initiatives
• Build data governance controls for data products, AI-ready data, and knowledge layer assets
• Help operationalize framework for unstructured data management at Enterprise level
• Identify opportunities and drive implementation of AI-driven interventions in data management lifecycle and data stewardship
• Bring in thought leadership to advance the Data governance capability evolution
• Coach and mentor Data management professionals
• Manage vendor relations and governance tools implementation

Mandatory skills and qualifications

• 12-16 years of relevant experience in data governance and data management
• Strong expertise in defining and executing Data governance frameworks and playbooks
• Good exposure in defining Enterprise data governance frameworks
• Expertise in Data Governance, and at least one of other Data management capabilities such as Data quality and Master data management etc.
• Good experience in value articulation of data governance initiatives
• Good experience with Data governance tools such as Collibra and other data management platforms for Data quality management and Master data management
• Exposure to unstructured data management
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience in navigating complex stakeholder ecosystem

Preferred skills and qualification

• Experience in Pharma/Healthcare industries

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.

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

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 status, or any other basis protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.