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: 
You are an experienced Solution Architect to drive intelligent automation and cognitive capabilities for our Animal Health (AH) Business. This role will be responsible for leading the strategy and development of the architecture and strategy for solutions related to Information Management, driving Launch Excellence and improvements within our AH business. From designing strategic roadmaps to implementing and operating innovative automation solutions. 
 

You will achieve competitive advantage through the alignment of IT priorities with business modernization and productivity initiatives. Your goal is to deliver transformative results by employing diverse, talented teams of motivated tech professionals who are committed to rapid, high-quality delivery.  

 

What will you do: 

Develop solution architecture roadmaps, optimise processes from design to implementation of relevant enterprise data use cases, like Product Information Management. 

Focus on analyzing, designing, and developing solutions and implementation plans based on a current versus future state solution and reference architectures that aligns to business needs 

Leading the solution design through creative thinking and translating business needs into both functional and technical detailed requirements 

Oversee the implementation of solutions, collaborating with a small team of expert roles located in different geographies and applying best practices across different project phases 

Coach other team members along their learning journey to scale our practice and drive impactful results 
 

What should you have: 

Minimum 8-10 years in an IT Product Owner/Business Analyst Role, with 4+ years’ experience with solution architecture and product information management 

Knowledge of Agile values, principles & practices with experience in release management, solution architecture, design applications, systems integration, requirements management, data modeling, and system designs. 

Strong understanding of IT architecture and business process management 

Leadership skills to guide the implementation of high-level requirements, principles, and models with an ability to guide solution decisions and provide the “blueprint” for engineering / project teams 

Strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with excellent emotional intelligence and decision-making 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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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

Required Skills:

Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA), Business Process Modeling, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Science, Requirements Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs, Technical Advice

Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

01/31/2025

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Requisition ID:R329028