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.
The Enterprise Architecture team helps to lead the transformation. Our vision is to provide strategic technology decisions that link investments and achieve business outcomes. We aim to offer strategic technology decision-making that connects investments and achieves business results. This focus allows the team to be a crucial supporting partner with the business to help them gain concrete business value through our company’s investments in digital.
This position is a truly pivotal role that will shape the future of our IT strategy and investments that are needed to support the company’s unwavering mission and digital transformation agenda for our critical markets as we expand the footprint of our Tech Centers across the globe.
What will you do in the role:
The successful candidate will be the anchor of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) organization within India, and drive the standards, practices and principles set forth by our enterprisefor all roles within the architecture role family. (Enterprise, Business, Information, Technical & Solution architecture)
The candidate will work closely with our IT technology teams to make decisions on the business, systems, and technology architecture that drive digital investments.
Delivering and documenting business architecture in collaboration with stakeholders in business and IT. Transforming our architecture artifacts into an enabling information asset.
Driving the declaration of standard technologies and use of architecture patterns within the domain area. Use agile, value-centric, business outcomes-oriented, and total cost of ownership-based principles to guide EA decision-making. Ensure technology procurement decisions are aligned with these standards and patterns.
Partnering with the product leads, teams, and divisional architects in IT to reuse the best available technologies and processes.
Forging strong partnerships with business partners, business-facing IT-area business architects, data experts, and solutions architects. Collaborating to deliver good architecture discipline, create enterprise architecture deliverables and artifacts, and provide leadership for cross-functional teams, projects, and initiatives across divisions.
Staying current with pharmaceutical technology trends and introducing these best practices to the IT organization to meet the changing business landscape.
Connecting with external peer organizations and key suppliers and industry-leading sources to derive strategic insights and trends while incorporating them into strategies and roadmaps for the company.
10-15 years prior experience in Enterprise, Business, Information, Systems & Application or Solution Architectures.
5 years of well-rounded pharmaceutical background in core aspects of the business (e.g., manufacturing, supply chain, marketing and sales, finance, procurement, research and development)
Demonstrated knowledge of architecture frameworks. (TOGAF, IAF, Zachman, etc..)
Effectively leverages diversity to enable the benefit of different perspectives.
Offers expert advice and develops/recommends leading-edge concepts, technologies, services, processes, or products to address future business needs. Stay abreast of emerging technologies and demonstrateexpertise in leading-edge practices, techniques, and technologies. Ability to apply Cloud, SaaS, and modern Analytics and data integration architectures, platforms, and solutions.
Effectively collaborates and communicates complex concepts with a variety of audiences and stakeholders including, but not limited to executive management, business leaders, IT peers, and colleagues worldwide.
Demonstrates leadership and organizational skills that drive shared goals in a matrix organization and manages cross-divisional initiatives and cross-functional teams in an extremely dynamic environment. Ability to lead through ambiguity and manage and navigate across conflicting priorities to balance critical tactical and strategic needs.
Experience with core capabilities, frameworks, and technologies necessary for building and maintaining a robust enterprise architecture practice.
Decomposes problems into solutions in multiple domains: people, processes, technology, and data. Leverage agile and product delivery models to effectively align IT execution to deliver the most value at the lowest total cost of ownership.
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.
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.
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 intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.
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Job Posting End Date:
03/31/2025
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