Specialist GenAI Architect

Amgen

Job Location:

Burnaby - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 5 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Career Category

Information Systems

Job Description

Join Amgens Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen if you feel like youre part of something bigger its because you are. Our shared missionto serve patients living with serious illnessesdrives all that we do.

Since 1980 weve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the worlds toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas Oncology Inflammation General Medicine and Rare Disease we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer heart disease inflammatory conditions rare diseases and obesity and obesity-related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team youll 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 youll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

What you will do

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have an opportunity to be a hands-on architecture leader within the Applied AI AI Productivity and Custom GPT Solutions Practice. The role defines and guides secure scalable reusable and production-ready GenAI solutions that enable Amgen organizations to adopt LLM-powered assistants agents Custom GPTs and AI-enabled applications.

This role translates business needs into end-to-end technical designsestablishesreference architectures and guardrailsvalidatescritical concepts through targeted prototypes and guides engineering teams from solutiondiscoverythrough production deployment and operational handover.

RESPONSIBILITIES

GenAI Solution Architecture

Lead end-to-end architecture for LLM-powered assistants agents Custom GPTs RAG solutions and AI-enabled applications across experience model retrieval orchestration integration security cloud deployment and observability layers.

Translate functional and non-functionalusecaserequirements into architecture documents diagramsintegrationpatterns data flows security models deployment designs and implementation guidance.

Selectappropriate patternsincluding prompt engineering RAG agentic orchestration workflow automation traditional software logic or model customizationbased on quality risk scalability latency cost and supportability.

Architect solutions using ChatGPT Enterprise MCP-based apps ChatGPT Skills enterprise APIs Databricks vector search governed data sources and approved AI platforms.

Design agentic and event-driven solutions using OpenAI SDKsLangChain/LangGraph n8n APIs webhooks and human-in-the-loop controls.

Develop targeted proofs of concept and reference implementations tovalidatearchitecture decisions reduce delivery risk and accelerate engineering execution.

Guidedelivery teamsthrough implementation andensuredelivered solutionsremainaligned with approved architecture security controls engineering standards and operational requirements.

Architecture Governance Security and Operations

Conduct solution and architecture reviews;identifytechnical risks platform constraints security gaps data-governance concerns and operational dependencies; and document decisions assumptions tradeoffs and recommendations.

Establish reusable reference architectures solution patterns technical standards guardrails and architecture decision records for enterprise GenAI adoption.

Define non-functional requirements covering privacy security responsible AI performance scalability observability auditability maintainability and total cost of ownership.

Define safeguards for prompt injection data leakage unauthorized retrieval insecure tool execution excessive agencysecretsexposure and inappropriate model outputs includingappropriate humanoversight for high-risk actions.

Establish secure identity and access patterns using OAuth service identities delegated authorization role-based access controlsecretsmanagement least privilege and user-level auditability.

Define evaluation regression-testing red-teaming tracing monitoring deployment rollback incident-management and operational-readiness approaches forproductionGenAI systems.

Platform Strategy and Technical Leadership

Evaluate emerging AI platforms and technologies and contribute to the GenAI capability roadmap byidentifyingplatform gaps reusable services standard integrations and strategic architecture improvements.

Partnerwith product owners business leaders engineering data platform DevOps cybersecurity privacy responsible AI and enterprise architecture teams to move solutions from concept to production.

Facilitate architecture workshops and communicate technical options tradeoffs dependencies risks and recommendations to technical teams and senior stakeholders.

Provide technical leadership across multiple GenAI initiatives mentor engineers and solution designers and support architecture consultations design clinics and technical office hours.

Produce concise architecture documents technical specifications implementation guidance runbooks and handover materials that support long-term operational sustainability.

What we expect of you

We are all different yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is an architect with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

Masters degree with 6 or more years of relevant experience in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering Data Science or a related field; or

Bachelors degree with 8 or more years of relevant experience in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering Data Science or a related field.
6 or more years of progressive experience in software engineering system design cloud architecture or solution architecture including at least 2 years leading end-to-end technical design or serving as a lead engineer technical architect or solution architect.
2 or more years of hands-on experience architecting and delivering production GenAI applications assistants agents Custom GPTs or RAG solutionson ChatGPT Enterprise orcomparable enterprise AI platforms.
Strong knowledge of GenAI solution architecture including model selection prompt and context design RAG embeddings vector and hybrid retrieval agent orchestration tool integration evaluation guardrails observability and cost optimization.
Demonstrated experience defining end-to-end architectures across application AI data integration security cloud deployment and operational layers.
Demonstrated experience architecting secure scalable and production-ready solutions on AWSusing managed AI services and cloud-native compute patterns such as AWS Lambda Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate and Amazon EC2 with strong knowledge of IAM VPC networking API Gateway event-driven integration observability resiliency and cost optimization.
Experience designing secure enterprise integrations using REST APIs event-driven patterns OAuth service identities role-based access control secrets management andleast-privilegeaccess.
Strong hands-on proficiency in Python and experience developing prototypes reference implementations APIs evaluation utilities or integration components for GenAI solutions.
Experience conducting architecture reviews creating architecture artifacts documenting decisions and tradeoffs defining nonfunctional requirements and guiding engineering teams through implementation.
Ability to communicate complex technical recommendations clearly to engineers product owners platform teams business stakeholders and senior leaders.

Preferred Skills

Experience with ChatGPT Enterprise OpenAI APIs and SDKs MCP servers and appsChatGPT SkillsLangChainLangGraph n8n or comparable agent technologies.

Hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock related agent capabilities and other AWS AI services.

Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog Vector Search SQL Warehouses semantic layers orgovernednatural-language-to-SQL solutions.

Working knowledge of modern web application architecture using TypeScript React API-driven user experiences automated testing and CI/CD practices.

Experience with responsible AI threat modeling AI security model governanceGxP computer-system validation or other regulated technology environments.

Relevant cloud architecture security data or AI certifications.

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 well 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.

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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.

Salary Range

105745.10CAD -143066.90CAD

Required Experience:

Career CategoryInformation SystemsJob DescriptionJoin Amgens Mission of Serving PatientsAt Amgen if you feel like youre part of something bigger its because you are. Our shared missionto serve patients living with serious illnessesdrives all that we do.Since 1980 weve helped pioneer the world of bio...