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We discover, develop, manufacture and deliver innovative medicines to help millions of patients. Amgen helped establish the biotechnology industry more than 40 years ago and remains on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what’s known today.\nABOUT THE ROLE\nRole Description:\nAmgen is seeking an experienced Reference Data Governance specialist to support enterprise semantic data, ontology, taxonomy, and knowledge graph initiatives across business and scientific domains.\nThe professional will work closely with business SMEs, data stewards, data architects, governance teams, and technology partners to define, standardize, govern, and publish reference data across enterprise platforms. As a member of the Reference Data Product team within the Data Foundations & Governance organization, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end reference data lifecycle, promoting reuse of governed reference data, supporting semantic interoperability, and enabling enterprise-wide adoption of controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, ontologies, and metadata standards.\nRoles & Responsibilities:\nDesign, build, maintain, and govern enterprise reference data models, controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, ontologies, and semantic data assets\nContribute towards defining Reference data management framework for Enterprise\nManage the reference data lifecycle including intake, assessment, standardization, approval, stewardship, versioning, publishing, monitoring, and retirement.\nPartner with business SMEs, data owners, data stewards, and governance councils to define reference data standards, ownership, stewardship rules, and usage guidelines.\nDefine and operationalize federated governance model for Reference Data\nDefine, manage and govern enterprise reference data products and the reference data within the knowledge layer\nSupport enterprise reference data governance processes, including data quality rules, issue management, change management, lineage, impact assessment, and compliance tracking.\nApply FAIR Data Principles to ensure reference data is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable across business and scientific domains.\nDevelop and optimize RDF/OWL/SKOS-based semantic frameworks and SPARQL/SQL queries.\nSupport semantic data integration, metadata harmonization, and semantic publishing workflows.\nManage ontology lifecycle activities including modeling, validation, versioning, and publishing.\nCollaborate with multiple enterprise & functional teams to elicit, structure and formalize knowledge from domain experts and diverse sources to build CVs, taxonomies, and ontologies.\nTroubleshoot semantic data load and mapping issues across Semantic Layer, CDL, and graph platforms.\nIdentify and resolve complex reference data, metadata, semantic interoperability, and governance-related challenges.\nSupport enterprise Data Foundations, Knowledge Graph and Metadata Management initiatives.\nParticipate in sprint planning meetings and provide estimations on technical implementation.\nBasic Qualifications and Experience:\nMaster’s degree with 7- 10 years of experience in Business, Engineering, IT or related field OR\nBachelor’s degree with 8 - 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