Job Description

Manager, Software Engineer – SaaS & Data

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

We are looking for an energetic, self-starter to join our Enterprise Information Technology team to help us identify and deliver business solutions, in partnership with Global Workplace and Enterprise Services and Information Technology colleagues. These critical functions operate at a global scale, supporting our business in over 130 countries.

As a member of the Global Supplier Management and Workplace Services team, you will support a product portfolio that includes SaaS applications, the AWS ecosystem, Databricks, IoT, and networking. A general understanding of these technologies is expected.

What will you do in this role:

• Design, modify, and validate software systems and components by developing robust applications and clear technical documentation.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system functionality and the user experience.
• Develop and implement software capabilities for creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting data, ensuring solutions meet organizational objectives for security, compliance, scalability, efficiency, reliability, data fidelity, flexibility, and portability.
• Perform thorough validation and testing of applications in accordance with organizational security standards and reporting requirements.
• Support incident management, disaster recovery, and post‑mortem processes to improve operational resilience.
• Prioritize tasks effectively and demonstrate a strong willingness to learn and collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet IT commitments and contribute to organizational goals.

What should you have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working in large, complex IT development projects
• A good understanding of DB Management System and DWH and Data Lakehouse concepts is required
• Hands-on experience in Python or JavaScript programming is necessary.
• The candidate should be familiar with the Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) paradigm and able to read and should be interested in cross-skilling when necessary.
• Experience working with APIs is essential, specifically in programmatically interacting with API endpoints.
• Experience in SaaS application configuration and providing full lifecycle release support
• A working knowledge of AWS services such as S3, Lambda, and Glue is good to have.
• Concept of GenAI, RAG, Embedding and Vector stores is good to have.
• Knowledge of Databricks is good to have.
• Exposure to Git version control best practices and working in a collaborative development environment and DevSecOps.
• Supplier, Procurement, Facilities Management experience is preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communications and collaboration skills.

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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Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing (DW), Design Applications, Engineering Software, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Human Resource Management, Management Process, Project Management, Software as a Service (SaaS), Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing, Web Development

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

11/22/2025

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