Data Acquisition Lead

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; escalate 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.

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

8 years’ work experience in life sciences or medically related field, including 3 years of biopharmaceutical clinical research