Job Description

Senior Specialist - Integration Solutions Engineer

Integration Solutions Engineer

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. Join a team that is passionate about using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making and create 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 ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in the 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. 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

As part of our Cross Technology Modernization team, the Integration Solutions Engineer is a senior technical role that needs to contribute in the implementation and supports the robust integration and analytics solutions. This role requires strong expertise in the Integration technologies, Mulesoft and Java with an emphasis on handson development while contributing to technical design decisions. This handson role blends in implementing solution architecture, middleware development and stakeholder-facing communication.

The successful candidate is an expert in integration patterns and platforms (MuleSoft preferred), has strong Java development experience and can operate effectively as a delivery team partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. Role is to work closely with the Delivery/Technical leads, Data Engineering & Architecture, Product, Platform teams and business or functional stakeholders to deliver the scalable, secure integrations.

The ideal candidate is a collaborative team player, adaptable and a quick learner, an effective communicator, relied upon to contribute in the complex implementation challenges and assists with the enterprise wide initiatives

What should you have

• Solid understanding of integration patterns and ability to take architectural decision(ESB, API‑led connectivity, pub/sub, streaming, ETL/ELT).
• Understanding of cyber and network security in cloud (AWS).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to explain tradeoffs and drive consensus.
• Strong experience (8+ years) in integration development with exposure to solution design.
• Java development background (Java 8+) with experience building custom modules/components for middleware platforms.
• Hands-on expertise in MuleSoft Anypoint Platform with designing APIs, building flows, creating connectors, RAML/OpenAPI, data transformations.
• Experience with cloud platforms and services (AWS, Mulesoft Cloudhub) and deploying integrations in cloud/native environments.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions/GitLab), automated testing and Agile methodologies
• Experience with observability tools (ELK, Argus, Splunk) for integration monitoring.
• Flexible working availability to cover overlap windows (pre‑noon US Eastern and post‑noon CET) for meetings and collaboration.
• Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.

Nice to have

• Exposure to AI/ML or intelligent automation in integration use cases.
• Experience with data modeling, data governance and integration testing strategies.
• Knowledge of Health sciences domain and orchestration (Kubernetes).

Soft Skills

• Collaborative and inclusive team player mindset.
• Adaptable and ability to work in a fast-paced, global environment with flexible time overlap.
• Strong problem solving ability with a proactive and ownership driven approach.
• Empathetic communicator with active listening skills.

High degree of adaptability and continuous learning mindset

What will you do:

• Design, Development & Implementation
  • Collaborate with Functional or Delivery Leads, Architecture, Platform & Data engineering teams to contribute to solution design and integration architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, best practices. Security policies and modernization goals.
  • Drive solutioning for integration initiatives across applications, services and data platforms.
  • Translate high-level architecture into detailed technical designs and implementable solutions within enterprise modernization initiatives
  • Produce design artifacts: integration diagrams, sequence flows, component designs and Technical requirements (performance, security, scalability etc).
  • Act as a hands‑on technical lead, actively developing integrations using MuleSoft (Anypoint Platform), implementing APIs, connectors, transformations and orchestration flows, Java based frameworks as needed.
  • Build CI/CD pipelines for integration deployments and collaborate with platform support teams to automate deployment, testing and releases.
  • Play a key role in integration and analytics modernization programs, including migration from legacy platforms to modern integration/iPaaS solutions.
  • Deliver high‑quality, well‑tested components and support troubleshooting/incident resolution.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex integrations issues, performing root cause analysis and performance optimization
  • Design data mapping and transformation solutions between heterogeneous systems.
  • Work with data teams to ensure data quality, schema evolution handling, and performant data movement. Implement batch and streaming integration patterns where applicable.
  • Explore and support adoption of AI-driven capabilities within integration and analytics solutions.
• Stakeholder Management & Communication
  • Engage with Platform, Data Engineering & Architecture, Business analysts and cross‑functional teams to gather requirements, present designs and agree on tradeoffs.
  • Provide regular progress updates to LT, raise risks/impediments early and coordinate dependency resolution.

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 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:

Adaptability, API Design, Automated Testing, Data Governance, Data Modeling, Design Applications, Integration Architecture, Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, Mulesoft Anypoint Platform Architecture, Mulesoft CloudHub, Mule Software, Release Management, Requirements Management, RESTful APIs, Solution Architecture, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, System Designs, System Integration

Preferred Skills:

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Job Posting End Date:

05/28/2026

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