Job Description
Manager, Integration Platform Engineering
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. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates 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 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 to managing critical emergencies. 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 Integration Platform Engineer, you will play a critical technical role within the Application and Data Integration organization. You will be responsible for operating, expanding, and building core application and data integration platforms to enable and support IT delivery teams in building solutions (APIs, integrations) on top of it. You should be ready to work independently as well as in a team.
What will you do in this role
- Your primary responsibility will be to build and maintain the infrastructure required to host our application and data integration ecosystem, including managing cloud resources, containerization, and orchestration. You will drive the technical implementation and manage the adoption. You will also understand customer needs and product relations within the wider Application and Data Integration ecosystem.
- You will participate in the product development and be responsible for product enhancements.
- You will be part of the product team, participate in the backlog prioritization, provide estimation, and ensure seamless delivery.
- You will ensure the platform's operation, seek optimization and help manage its overall cost.
- You will support the platform adoption by constantly and proactively collecting feedback.
- Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the Product manager.
- Participate in Product planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with both functional and Product goals.
What should you have
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 3-7 years of developing app and data integration infrastructure
- Strong working knowledge of at least one large-scale application and data integration technology (Informatica IDMC preferably), and underlying infrastructure (cloud or on-prem environments, containerization, distributed storage & databases)
- Experienced in software/platform engineering practices (including versioning, release management, deployment, agile & related software tools - GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Cloud bees CD, Terraform, Cloud formation, Kubernetes etc).
- Cloud-native, ideally AWS certified.
- Programming experience (Python, Bash, Node.js, Linux and, Unix Shell, etc.)
- Familiarity with agile methodologies, user-centric design principles, and product lifecycle management is crucial.
- You must also ensure substantial documentation using collaborative tools such as Confluence, JIRA, and Digital SDLC.
- Basic QA and testing knowledge
- Good interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).
- Product and customer-centric approach.
- 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:
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Required Skills:
Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing
Preferred Skills:
Job Posting End Date:
04/30/2025
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