Job Description

As a Senior Platform Engineer you will design, deploy, and maintain predominantly data platforms with emphasis on Databricks. This role involves both creative and analytical skills to solve complex problems and create efficient, reliable solutions. You will use your expertise in requirements analysis, programming languages, development methodologies, and tools to build and deliver platforms that meet the needs of businesses, organizations, or end-users. You will work with other engineers, product managers and technical leads, you will help to design systems, determine functional and non-functional needs requirements and implement them accordingly. You should be ready to work independently as well as in a team.

What will you do in this role

• Participate in defining the platform standards and architecture patterns.

• Author, review, and maintain Terraform modules and state management for multi‑account/multi‑environment deployments.

• Implement reusable and repeatable environment provisioning and configuration

• Create and maintain clear documentation: platform design, Infrastructure as Code patterns, operational runbooks, best practices regarding coding, security and compliance.

• Develop, verify, test, document, amend and refactor CI/CD pipelines and the platform configurations for deployment in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams.

• Integrate platform with data governance tooling (catalogs, lineage, access controls).

• Utilize system life cycle working practices for platform components delivery. Deploy automation to achieve well-engineered and secure outcome.

• Contribute to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas. Participate in evaluation of alternative solutions and approaches to the current architecture and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.

• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the Product manager.

• Participate in planning, execution, and delivery of the platform ensuring alignment with both functional, product and company goals.

What should you have

• Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.

• 7+ years of hands-on experience working with IaC Terraform, SQL and databases, Analytics platforms, DevOps tools and REST API.

• Expertise in Databricks (Architect level).

• Excellent Cloud knowledge, ideally AWS certified with good understanding of AWS core service like EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, VPC networking, Security Groups, subnets, IAM roles/policies, Route 53, Transit Gateways, Load Balancing, Lambda, KMS.

• Deep knowledge of DevOps tools and practices (like GitHub, GitHub Actions) for code versioning and deployment.

• Understanding modern product development principles – Agile, test driven development, UX, design thinking.

• Knowledge of development practices such as infrastructure observability, continuous integration/continuous deployment - CI/CD, containerization.

• Proficiency with other programming languages (Scala, R, Java) is a nice to have.

• Some experience with networking principles is necessary.

• Experience with Trino, Redshift, Grafana is a huge benefit.

Required Skills:

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Business Intelligence (BI), CI/CD, Communication, Computer Science, Containerization, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integrations, Database Administration, Databricks Platform, Data Engineering, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Data Warehouse Architecture, Deployment Automation, Design, Design Applications, GitHub, Information Management, Multidisciplinary Collaboration, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) {+ 1 more}

Preferred Skills:

Architectural Patterns

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The salary range for this role is

$114,700.00 - $180,500.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.

You can apply for this role through https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

1st - Day

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

N/A

Job Posting End Date:

10/28/2025

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