Associate Director, Senior Technical Consultant

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.
• 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

We are looking for an energetic professional to join our Decommission, Retire, and Archive Center of Excellence team as the lead for our India Tech Center to help us build a new team responsible to identify and deliver business solutions to ensure long-term data retention capabilities. This candidate will be critical to helping us solve problems for unique archiving needs and drive significant business value.

The IT Technical Engineer is empowered and responsible for:

· Gain a deep understanding of the business processes, systems, and data that support the Our company Data Vault

· Develop an understanding of the various technology solutions that can be applied to data archiving and storage

· Collaborates with technical teams to design and develop technical solutions for archiving needs

· Actively participate and collaborate on the technical implementation of key applications to help ensure alignment between business needs and solutions and delivery of a well-engineered system

· Demonstrate the ability to evaluate new ideas and proposed methods for practicality and ease of implementation

· Demonstrate skill in using an open communication style that actively acknowledges other thoughts and opinions

· Demonstrate ability to independently solve problems that arise within job responsibility and expectations

· Share best practices, tools, and techniques across product teams

· Mentor junior resources to develop technical capabilities within the team

· Be part of agile teams and collectively work towards common goals

· Able to succeed in a dynamic, rapidly changing, highly matrixed business environment

Required Experience and Skills:

· Seven+ years’ experience working with large data platforms (e.g. data warehouse, data lake)

· Five+ years’ experience in leading, participating, and directing technical deployments

· Three+ working on Agile teams and knowledge of Scrum framework

· Experience working with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions

· Experience with AWS components

· Working knowledge of Scrum and Collaboration Tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence)

· Strong written and verbal communications skills including the ability to communicate with both a business and technical audience

· Critical thinker who can effectively embrace new ideas and technologies while balancing the needs of stakeholders and users

Preferred Experience and Skills:

· Experience with Solix CDP

· Experience with data archiving solutions

· Knowledge of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) standards

· Hands-on pharmaceutical or regulated industry experience a plus

Required Skills:

Team Leadership, Data Engineering, T Performance Management, IT Project Implementation, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills:

Agile Application Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS), IT Infrastructure Management, IIT Project Lifecycle, IT Service Delivery, IT Systems Development

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.

Required Skills:

Availability Management, Capacity Management, Change Controls, Design Applications, High Performance Computing (HPC), Incident Management, Information Management, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, IT Service Management (ITSM), Release Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Administration, System Designs

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

11/30/2025

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