Senior Specialist, Senior RDM Engineer

Job Description

RDM team, part of MDM product line, is now Prague based with extensive task force from Cognizant located in India. The core RDM team that holds the knowledge, designs new capabilities and processes and is responsible for adoption of new projects is not staffed for demand that will come in next years towards this area. Moreover, to that, one of the key specialists in Prague team, is going for a maternity leave at the end of 2025. This will further complicate ability of the team to deliver on business commitments in Starshine, Harmony and ZeroGravity programs. We need to start building Hyderabad team that will partner with the Prague team and support delivery of above-mentioned projects. In mid-term this new colleague will work as a backup for the maternity leave gap.

Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing

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Senior Manager, MDM Technical Specialist

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 Centres 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 Centres 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 Centres.

Role Overview

As an MDM Technical Specialist you will design, develop, and maintain MDM Products. This role involves both creative and analytical skills to solve complex problems and create efficient, reliable Products. You will use your expertise in requirements analysis, programming languages, development methodologies, and tools to build and deliver master data and reference data products that meet the needs of businesses, organizations, or end-users. You will work with other engineers, product managers and delivery leads, to design systems, determine functional and non-functional needs and implement solutions accordingly. You should be ready to work independently as well as in a team.

What will you do in this role

• Help the MDM Product Line team with implementation of modern global solutions for Master Data and Reference Data Management using a cloud-based technological stack.
• Develop, design, and deploy Informatica IDMC (MDM, RDM, CDI, CDQ, CAI, etc.) artifacts covering core Data Quality, Data Governance, and Business Processes relevant to Master Data and Reference Data landscape modernization.
• Integrate MDM and RDM tools with a wide range of enterprise solutions such as Metadata Management, ERP, BI, etc.
• Develop and configure our Core MDM platforms for Customer, Product, and Reference Data Management.
• Work closely with project Product Managers, Architects, and business sponsors to ensure successful project delivery.
• Participate in problem management by troubleshooting chronic issues and developing long-term solutions.

What should you have

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• 7+ years of experience with depth in Master Data Management Integrations.
• Knowledge of concepts and demonstrated experience in MDM, RDM, ETL processes, Data Warehousing, Integration tools, and technologies.
• Proven experience in MDM Development with a focus on the life science domain.
• Hands-on experience with Informatica MDM configurations - Data modeling & Data Mapping.
• Strong track record of experience in data modeling, data mapping, and data integration with SaaS implementation techniques.
• Experience in Linux/Windows environments, programming/scripting languages (e.g., Java, Python, Shell Scripting), SQL, and database design (RDBMS).
• Awareness of Cloud trends, Cloud Concepts, and other Cloud tools.
• Experience in collaborating with various technical teams and business users for Development, QA, and Operations Support.

However, we will be happy if you also have:

• Hands-on experience with Informatica SaaS MDM (IDMC) configurations - Data modeling & Data Mapping.
• Hands-on experience with Informatica CDI, CDQ, and CAI.
• Experience in integrating external business applications with Informatica IDMC using Batch processes, API calls, and message queues.
• Familiarity with using Web Services, REST APIs, SOAP UI, Postman, and XML.
• Experience with the MuleSoft integration framework.
• Experience working in virtual teams comprising of internal employees and geographically separated vendors/partners.
• Experience with collaboration/development tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, VCS.

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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Job Posting End Date:

11/21/2025

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