Senior Scientist, Molecular Cloning Data & Workflows

Amgen; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen is seeking a highly skilled Senior Scientist Business Owner for the molecular biology data domain to support biologics discovery. You will translate scientific needs into data and workflow requirements, connect scientists with software and data teams, and own data models for cloning workflows, including sequence registration and construct design.

Collaboration across science and IT is essential. The role emphasizes leadership in requirements, testing, release readiness, and user adoption

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree and 2 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of relevant experience

Responsibilities

• Lead meetings with molecular biologists, cloning scientists, protein engineers, and other biologics discovery users, and serve as a knowledgeable point of contact for their scientific workflow and tool‑related needs.
• Translate scientific needs into clear data and workflow requirements, and explain complex scientific concepts to software engineers and business analysts.
• Partner with technology teams through design, implementation, testing, release, and adoption to confirm that solutions meet the original scientific need, while maintaining clear communication about scope, decisions, risks, and dependencies.
• Ensure the data model supports workflows for individual construct and plasmid design and accurately represents established and emerging individual‑molecule formats.
• Define the scientific relationships and data linkages needed across applications, and partner with data and technology teams on their implementation and maintenance.
• Lead scientific requirements reviews and coordinate user training and acceptance testing using representative workflows, molecule formats, data, and edge cases.
• Coordinate release communication, training, and adoption for new capabilities.
• Define and reinforce standard ways of working for capturing high‑quality molecular biology design data.
• Provide scientific context as workflows and molecule formats evolve, helping data and technology teams identify gaps and improve data quality across scientific systems.
• Improve the readiness of molecular biology design data for downstream automation, analytics, and ML/AI‑enabled discovery.

Skills

Molecular Biology

Cloning

Protein Engineering

Data Modeling

Agile

Education

Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree and 2 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of relevant experience

Job description

Amgen is seeking a highly skilled Senior Scientist Business Owner for the molecular biology data domain to support biologics discovery. You will translate scientific needs into data and workflow requirements, connect scientists with software and data teams, and own data models for cloning workflows, including sequence registration and construct design.

Collaboration across science and IT is essential. The role emphasizes leadership in requirements, testing, release readiness, and user adoption