Job Description

Senior Manager, Tech Lead

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview

Join our company as we transform and innovate. We are at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals. We are currently seeking a Technology Engineer to help deliver our Data and Analytics Platform product. This is also an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of our broader company's Data and Analytics practice inside our team.

What will you do in this role

• Contributes to architecture, design, and engineering of Global Support Functions Data Engineering, Data Integration and Data Visualization service.
• Contributes to architecture, design, and engineering of global data engineering/integration/visualization services.
• Defines best practices and guidelines for delivery of Analytic solutions.
• Consumes practices from and collaborates to improve practices amongst our emerging engineering community.
• Contributes to identifying capability gaps in product capabilities and designing solutions to address it.
• Executes on opportunities to automate and simplify maintenance and lifecycle of platform services.
• Maintains current industry knowledge of cloud native concepts, best practices, and technologies.
• Prioritizes workloads, commitments, and scheduled timelines.
• Frequent interaction with product managers and engineering teams to onboard their new delivery to our central platforms.
• Documents, reviews, and ensures that all System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and company policy standards are met.
• Provide point of escalation for product customer support team.

What should you have

• BS Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

Required

• Relevant certification or completion of equivalent program in areas such as Software Development, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
• Hands on experience with various data engineering/integration/BI platforms (e.g. AWS Glue, Athena, S3 (storage), Apache Airflow, Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks, Collibra)
• Understanding of Cloud Service Providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Understanding of web and network protocols such as HTTP/S, TCP/IP, DNS.
• Understanding of basic routing concepts.
• Experience with scripting language such as Python or Unix shell scripts with strong focus towards automation.
• Experience with software solution design and documentation.
• Strong knowledge and experience in IT, specifically in designing, developing, modifying, and implementing solutions.
• Proficiency in working with both new and existing applications, systems architecture, and network systems.
• Ability to review and understand system requirements and business processes.
• Proficient in coding, testing, debugging, and implementing software solutions.
• Expertise in the engineering, delivery, and management of Cloud solutions, including Cloud platform and Cloud native services.
• Experience in monitoring the consumption of Cloud resources and managing application performance.
• Ability to oversee request fulfillment turnaround efficiently.
• Strong understanding of maintaining system security posture.
• Strong leadership skills including but not limited to strategic planning, entrepreneurship, innovation, and business savviness.
• Strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and have the ability to influence and motivate others.
• Excellent emotional intelligence, decision-making skills, and a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

Preferred

• 6 to 8 years of experience in IT field and/or related program.
• Ability to work in a matrixed and highly concurrent environment.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and execute on a project or experiment, including milestones and endpoints.
• Experience working as part a global, diverse team.
• Experience using, implementing and/or operating Data Warehousing or broad range analytic solutions.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services such as VPC, Route53, EC2, ALB, S3, RDS, S3, IAM, etc.
• Relevant certification (e.g. AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Experience debugging software and/or scripting errors.
• Experience with Go programming language.
• Experience with infrastructure, network, database, or security troubleshooting.
• Experience delivering products and features using Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with DevOps tools such as git, Terraform, Jira, Jenkins, CloudBees, GitHub Actions, etc.
• Experience in System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) documentation.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Employee Status:

Regular

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Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Required Skills:

Business Intelligence (BI), Database Administration, Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Information Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Designs

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Job Posting End Date:

05/7/2025

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