Sr Associate Software Engineer CRM
About this opportunity
Career Category
Information Systems
Job Description
Senior Associate Software Engineer
At Amgen, Technology isn’t just a support function, it’s a catalyst for discovery, transformation, and real-world impact. Here, your ideas fuel innovation that improves and saves lives of patients in dire need of our medicines. Are you ready to do meaningful work that matters?
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What you will do
Role Description:
The Senior Associate Software Engineer Operations is responsible for maintaining software applications and solutions that meet business needs and ensuring the availability and performance of critical systems and applications. This role involves working closely with product managers, developers, and other engineers to create and maintain high-quality, scalable software solutions and automating operations, monitoring system health, and responding to incidents to minimize downtime.
You will be part of a team specifically focusing on Global CRM and Marketing capabilities. Amgen is using fully integrated and best in class technologies, having Salesforce.com as core architecture & relying on business capabilities enablers such as Veeva CRM, Veeva Vault, Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Own operational support, maintenance, and enhancement for Veeva CRM/Salesforce applications and modules
Lead troubleshooting, configuration, and development activities related to incidents, service requests, and user stories
Drive rapid resolution of production issues through effective investigation, root cause analysis, and implementation of corrective actions.
Investigate software defects and implement practical solutions to meet evolving business needs
Support integrations with other enterprise systems to ensure seamless data flow and reliable functionality
Develop and maintain operational runbooks, support documentation, and knowledge-sharing materials.
Provide ongoing application monitoring and maintenance to ensure optimal system performance and availability
Contribute to front-end and back-end support and development activities within Veeva CRM/Salesforce environments
Perform unit testing, integration testing, and validation activities to ensure application stability and quality
Use Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment as part of the DevOps practices and maintain CI/CD Pipelines
Maintain high standards of system and code quality through configuration reviews, testing, and adherence to support best practices
Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on automation, reliability, and operational excellence
Possess strong rapid prototyping skills and can quickly translate concepts into working code
What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The tech professional we seek is a creative problem-solver and a team player with these qualifications.
Minimum requirements
Master’s degree with 5 - 9 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related
Proficient in programming languages Visual Force, Apex, SQL, Java
Strong expertise in software design principles, and system integration Experience with Devops Tool set (Jira, Git, Jenkins, Copado)
Proven experience (5 years) as a Software Engineer
Proficiency of Veeva CRM development
Proficiency in Salesforce development
Proficiency of software development methodologies, including Agile and Scrum
Proficiency with version control systems like Git & Release management tools like Copado
Preferred requirements
Experience with test automation
Work closely with product team, business team, and other stakeholders
Certifications related to Veeva CRM, Salesforce, Copado, Safe are advantageous
Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
High degree of initiative and self-motivation
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Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Information Technology role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 378 comparable Senior Information Technology roles across 34 biopharma companies.
Salary context
45 of 378 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 378 comparable roles
+ 15 more countries
Seniority mix
378 of 378 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
0 of 378 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
No peers with a known therapeutic area yet.
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.