Job Description

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 organization driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that supports a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.   

Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be the leaders who have a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, which will allow 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 serve our company purpose to save and improve lives. An integral part of our company 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 in our global organization that partners across the entire company. 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  

 

As the Data Integration Data Observability (DO) Technical Lead, you will play a critical technical leadership role within the Data Integration organization and be responsible for leading, expanding, and building core data analytical products to enable and support IT delivery teams in building analytical insight across the company.    

 

Your primary responsibility will be understanding the customer's needs and priorities and developing solutions that align with business goals. You will collaborate with business and IT teams to help define and deliver the technical implementation for the Data Observability product. In addition, you will be closely cooperating with other technical platform teams, providing insight and feedback that will help drive the overall analytical ecosystem forward. 

  

What will you do in this role:  

Drive the technical implementation of the Data Observability (and potentially other) products within the Data Integration ecosystem.

Lead a team of technical platform engineers responsible for product development. Collaborate closely with the product owner to define a long-term vision and strategy for the product. 

Prioritize a backlog, provide estimation, and ensure seamless delivery. Help create product roadmaps and make data-driven decisions. Familiarity with agile methodologies, user-centric design principles, and product lifecycle management is crucial. 

Manage the operation of the DO platform, seek optimization, and help manage the overall cost of the platform itself. 

Support the platform adoption by constantly and proactively collecting feedback. 

Engage with key internal and external stakeholders to gain insight into short-term and long-term business objectives and delivery needs.  

Participate in negotiations with vendors to secure favorable terms and conditions.  

Retain and attract diverse, exceptional talent, fostering an inclusive environment. Encourage a culture of continuous learning, constructive collaboration, and innovation within the team.  

 

What Should you have:  

  Minimum of 5-7 years of developing data pipelines & data infrastructure, ideally within a drug development or life sciences context .

A strong understanding of data pipelines, quality, governance, and integration processes is essential. Knowledge of data technologies like ETL, data warehousing, and data lake architectures is also necessary. 

Proficiency in technical concepts related to data observability, such as logging, monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting. Familiarity with data management technologies and data storage systems is beneficial. Cloud-native. AWS certified. 

Strong leadership skills to inspire and motivate cross-functional teams. Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders, including business users, data engineers, and data scientists, to understand their needs and deliver value. 

Excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Ability to translate customer requirements into clear, actionable product plans and roadmaps. 

Understanding the business implications of data observability, such as compliance, data privacy, and security requirements. Ability to align data observability initiatives with business goals and objectives. 

Innovative thinking, experimental mindset.  

 

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

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

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

Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

01/31/2025

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Requisition ID:R329021