Associate Manager, Data Engineer

Job Description

Associate Manager, Data Engineer

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 organization 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

A Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust data pipelines/report and infrastructure that facilitate the collection, storage, and processing of large datasets. They ensure data/insight is accessible, reliable, and optimized for analysis by collaborating with data scientists and analysts. Key tasks include data integration, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, report design 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, develop, and maintain data pipelines to extract data from various sources and populate a data lake and data warehouse. 
• Work closely with data scientists, analysts, and business teams to understand data requirements and deliver solutions aligned with business goals.
• Build and maintain platforms that support data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration across various data sources, both internal and external.
• Use data orchestration, logging, and monitoring tools to build resilient pipelines. 
• Automate data flows and pipeline monitoring to ensure scalability, performance, and resilience of the DI platform.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues related to the data integration platform, ensuring uptime and reliability.
• Maintain thorough documentation for integration processes, configurations, and code to ensure easy onboarding for new team members and future scalability.
• Develop pipelines to ingest data into cloud data warehouses.
• Establish, modify and maintain data structures and associated components.
• Create and deliver standard reports in accordance with stakeholder needs and conforming to agreed standards.
• Participate in project planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with both functional and project goals.
  
  

What Should You Have

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• 1+ years of developing data pipelines & data infrastructure HR experience, especially in Workday and Prism, is a plus
• 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
• Strong working knowledge of at least one Reporting/Insight generation technology
• 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 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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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

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

07/18/2025

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Requisition ID R345622