Job Description
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.
Take charge of transforming healthcare through data innovation. You will have the opportunity to design and implement cutting-edge data solutions that empower our teams to make informed decisions, enhance patient outcomes, and drive operational efficiency.
We prioritize innovation and encourage you to explore new methodologies and solutions, empowering you to push the boundaries of what’s possible in data engineering within the pharmaceutical industry.
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 the 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 the Data Integration Engineer, you will play a critical technical role within the Data Integration organization. You will be responsible for operating, expanding, and building core data analytical products to enable and support IT delivery teams in building analytical insight across the company.
What will you do in this role:
Your primary responsibility will be to work with platform engineering team for the build and maintenance of the infrastructure required to host our data engineering 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 Data Integration and Central Data and Analytics ecosystem.
You will design and implement data streaming solutions using spark structured streaming for real-time data processing and analytics
You will participate in setting the team goals and defining product roadmaps.
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 work in a cross-functional set up to 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.
What Should you have:
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
Minimum of 3+ years of developing data pipelines & data infrastructure, ideally within a drug development or life sciences context with a focus on data streaming from technology and capability perspective
Strong proficiency in data streaming technologies like spark structured streaming with hands-on experience in means for change data capture as the primary skill
Strong working knowledge of at least one large-scale data processing technology (e.g., High-performance computing, distributed computing), databases, and underlying technology (cloud or on-prem environments, containerization, distributed storage & databases)
Experienced in software/data engineering practices (including versioning, release management, deployment, agile & related software tools - GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Cloudbees CD, Terraform, Cloudformation, Kubernetes etc).
Cloud-native, ideally AWS certified.
Programming experience (Python, PySpark, SQL, 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 encourage 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 worldwide.
What we look for:
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping save and improve lives worldwide. 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 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:
04/22/2025
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