Senior Specialist, Technical Lead E-Logbooks

Overview

• 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 Centre 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

We are seeking a Tech Lead to join a cross-functional product team within the company in Hyderabad. This is a hands-on, individual contributor role where you will provide technical leadership within the product team, guide key technical decisions and collaborate closely with Product Owner, business stakeholders and partner IT teams.

As a Tech Lead, you will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable product capabilities while upholding engineering standards and best practices. You will lead through technical expertise and play an active role in mentoring engineers and continuously improving the team’s engineering maturity.

What Will You Do In This Role

• Partner with business stakeholders and other IT teams to define technical solutions and deliver product outcomes
• Lead the design and development of new capabilities that solve key business problems and deliver value
• Provide technical leadership on architecture and implementation decisions ensuring scalability, maintainability and reliability
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing, code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing
  
  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• At least 8-10 years of hands-on working experience in developing web and/or mobile apps
• Proven experience as a senior engineer within a product-centric, cross functional team
• Strong collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams
• Solid understanding of architectural patterns, design patterns and design principles for web, mobile applications and APIs
• Hands-on experience developing APIs using Java and Spring Boot
• Hands-on experience developing Web applications using JavaScript, preferably with React and Node.js
• Strong experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and automated release pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions
• Hands-on experience working with AWS cloud services, preferably with Amazon RDS and Amazon S3
• Experience in designing database schemas, including data modelling and normalization
• Strong experience in managing Oracle databases, including performance tuning, backup/restore operations, and patching/upgrade cycles
  
  

• Deliver product features and contribute hands-on to resolving production incidents, while improving code quality and engineering practices
• Improve system reliability and maintainability through better automation, instrumentation and technical standards
  
  

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 lives, 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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Required Skills

Asset Management, Benefits Management, Management System Development, Product Management, Requirements Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs

Preferred Skills

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Employee Status

Regular

Relocation

VISA Sponsorship

Travel Requirements

Flexible Work Arrangements

Hybrid

Shift

Valid Driving License

Hazardous Material(s)

Job Posting End Date

03/23/2026

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