Manager, Data Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana
Permanent
Full-time

2 days ago

Job DescriptionThe 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 companys’ 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 OverviewA Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust data pipelines and infrastructure that facilitate the collection, storage, and processing of large datasets. They collaborate with data scientists and analysts to ensure data is accessible, reliable, and optimized for analysis. Key tasks include data integration, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, and managing databases and cloud-based systems. Data engineers play a crucial role in enabling data-driven decision-making and ensuring data quality across organizations.What will you do in this role

Design, implement, and maintain complex data engineering solutions to acquire and prepare data. Create and maintain data pipelines to connect data within and between data stores, applications, and organizations.
Support and monitor the implementation of information, record management policies, standard practice, effective control for internal delegation, audit, and control relating to information and records management.
Identify issues related to software development activities and propose practical solutions to resolve issues.
Establish, modify, maintain, and communicate the details of the data structures and associated components to others using the data structures, standard data modeling, and design techniques.
Prepare design options for the working environment of methods, procedures, techniques, tools, and people. Select systems and software life cycle (SDLC) working practices for software components and micro-services.
Create and document detailed designs for simple data applications and components. Contribute to the design of components of larger data systems.
Establish, modify and maintain data structures, data pipelines and associated components.
Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the project manager.
Participate in project planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with both functional and project goals.

What should you have

Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
3+ years of developing data pipelines & data infrastructure, ideally within a drug development or life sciences context.
Proficiency in capabilities in likes of Data Ingestion, Data Curation, Data Virtualization, Data Sharing, Data Orchestration and Data Observability.
Strong working knowledge of distributed storage, processing and distributed compute.
Demonstrated expertise in delivering large-scale information management technology solutions encompassing data integration and self-service analytics enablement.
Experienced in software/data engineering practices (including versioning, release management, deployment of datasets, agile & related software tools).
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)
Cloud-native, ideally AWS certified.
Good interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).
Proven record of delivering high-quality results.
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 areWe 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 forImagine 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.#HYDIT2025Current Employees applyCurrent Contingent Workers applySearch Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.Employee Status: RegularRelocation:VISA Sponsorship:Travel Requirements:Flexible Work Arrangements: HybridShift: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 DesignsPreferred Skills:Job Posting End Date: 10/2/2025*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.

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