Associate Specialist, Scientific Data Engineering

Job Description

Associate Manager, Scientific Data Engineering

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. Join a team that is passionate about using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making and create 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 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 Overview

• 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 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.
• 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.
• 1 to 3 years of developing data pipelines & data infrastructure, ideally within a drug development or life sciences context.
• 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).
• Ability to design, build and unit test applications on Spark framework on Python.
• Build PySpark based applications for both batch and streaming requirements, which will require in-depth knowledge on Databricks/ Hadoop.
• Experience working with storage frameworks like Delta Lake/ Iceberg
• Experience working with MPP Datawarehouse’s like Redshift
• Cloud-native, ideally AWS certified.
• 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.

Mandatory Skills

Skill Category

Skills

Foundational Data Concepts

SQL (Intermediate / Advanced)

Python (Intermediate)

Cloud Fundamentals (AWS Focus)

AWS Console, IAM roles, regions, concept of cloud computing

AWS S3

Data Processing & Transformation

Apache Spark (Concepts & Usage)

Databricks (Platform Usage), Unity Catalog, Delta Lake

ETL & Orchestration

AWS Glue (ETL, Catalog), Lambda

Apache Airflow (DAGs and Orchestration)
or other orchestration tool

dbt (Data Build Tool)

Matillion (or similar ETL tool)

Data Storage & Querying

Amazon Redshift / Azure Synapse

Trino / Equivalent

AWS Athena / Query Federation

Data Quality & Governance

Data Quality Concepts / Implementation

Data Observability Concepts

Collibra / equivalent tool

Real-time / Streaming

Apache Kafka (Concepts & Usage)

DevOps & Automation

CI / CD concepts, Pipelines
(GitHub Actions / Jenkins / Azure DevOps)

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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Requisition ID:R353468