Senior Specialist, Solution Architecture

Job Description

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 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 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

As a member of our central Data & Analytics team, you will design, deliver, and govern enterprise-grade analytics platforms and reusable data products that accelerate decision-making across the Pharmaceutical Commercial domain. You will translate business needs into scalable, secure, and compliant architectures while championing standards, reuse, and platform adoption across the organization.

What will you do in this role

• Define and maintain enterprise reference architectures, standards, and reusable patterns across data ingestion, storage, processing, modeling, serving, and visualization.
• Drive platform-level technology decisions that maximize reuse and minimize duplication across sub-domains.
• Design canonical data models, shared data products, and semantic layers enabling consistent analytics and standardized enterprise metrics.
• Build reusable ETL/ELT pipeline patterns, metadata catalogs, and data quality frameworks ensuring consistency, lineage, and trusted reporting.
• Partner with domain leaders, data stewards, and functional teams to align analytics roadmaps and prioritize capabilities; support governance forums on data standards, ownership, and definitions.
• Ensure appropriate governance for sensitive customer and patient-adjacent data — privacy, consent, auditability, and access controls — in line with internal policies and applicable regulations.
• Provide technical leadership to platform engineering and integration teams; define NFRs, SLAs, support models, and runbooks.
• Establish centralized monitoring, observability, and incident response coordination.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive innovation through pilots in customer intelligence, decision intelligence, AI-assisted insights, and modern data products.

What should you have

Primary Skills : Databricks, AWS, Data analytics, Data Platform , Commercial data ecosystems

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 10+ years in data/analytics architecture or engineering; 5+ years in solution architecture.
• Deep expertise in enterprise data architectures: data lakes/lake houses, ELT/ETL, streaming, semantic layers, and canonical modeling.
• Expert-level Databricks — Delta Lake, Unity Catalog; strong AWS (S3, Redshift, Lambda, IAM).
• Proficiency in Python and SQL; working knowledge of Spark, Kubernetes, Airflow, and CI/CD via GitHub Actions.
• Experience implementing data governance, metadata management, lineage, data quality, and access-control frameworks.
• Familiarity with Commercial data ecosystems: CRM, omnichannel platforms, market and sales data, customer master, and third-party data providers.
• Knowledge of privacy and compliance considerations for customer and HCP data.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills; ability to influence without direct authority.

Preferred

• Experience in a central platform or enterprise data team supporting multiple business units.
• Familiarity with model-driven analytics, recommendation engines, and decision intelligence.
• Cloud architect, TOGAF

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 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:

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Data Analytics, Databricks Platform, Data Storage Platforms, Data Systems

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

07/15/2026

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