Biostatistical Programming Lead, Flexible & Impactful

Amgen; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Annual bonus

Stock incentives

Flexible work models

Job summary

Amgen seeks a Biostatistical Programming Manager to lead an FSP-based team within CfOR, coordinating with functional leads to deliver high-quality analyses. The role focuses on ensuring data accuracy, regulatory-compliant documents, and continuous process improvements across programming activities.

Candidates should have deep SAS programming experience, strong SQL/R/Python skills, and familiarity with cloud and UNIX environments.

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree with 2+ years of experience.
• Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years, or Associate’s with 8+ years.
• High school diploma or GED with 10 years of experience.
• Master’s degree in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, or other subject with high statistical content.
• Vendor relationship management or related experience with functional service providers.
• Experience with real world healthcare data such as MarketScan, Optum, Komodo, Medicare and EMR databases.
• Pharmaceutical industry experience.
• Database programming using SQL.
• Minimum five years SAS programming experience.
• Experience with advanced statistical methods such as survival and regression analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead an FSP-based programming team conducting analyses supporting CfOR's Data & Analytic Center.
• Coordinate with functional leads to prioritize and manage workflow.
• Identify potential efficiency improvements and propose solutions.
• Collaborate with CfOR FSP liaison to ensure performance and quality standards from FSP-based programming team.
• Ensure the analysis and presentation of biomedical data is accurate and complete.
• Adhere to Amgen policies, SOPs and other controlled documents.
• Write, test, and validate programs in SAS, Databricks, or R.
• Efficiently manage FSP-based programming team to deliver on time and to specifications.
• Review and approve key study-related documents produced by other functions, e.g. SAPs, Data Management Plans, etc.
• Write and/or review and approve programming plans and analysis dataset specifications.
• Represent the programming function and participate in multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of programming, CfOR, and Research and Development (R&D).
• Write, test and validate department-, product- and protocol-level macros and utilities.
• Participate in intra-departmental and CfOR meetings.
• Support and mentor junior programmers.

Skills

SAS programming

R programming

SQL

Python

Leadership

Project management

Teamwork

Programming with SAS, R, SQL, Python

Education

Doctorate degree

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree

Associate's degree

High school diploma

Tools

Databricks

AWS

UNIX

Job description

Amgen seeks a Biostatistical Programming Manager to lead an FSP-based team within CfOR, coordinating with functional leads to deliver high-quality analyses. The role focuses on ensuring data accuracy, regulatory-compliant documents, and continuous process improvements across programming activities.

Candidates should have deep SAS programming experience, strong SQL/R/Python skills, and familiarity with cloud and UNIX environments.