(Senior) Software Engineer (all genders, full-/part-time)

Merck Group; Weiterstadt; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck Group in Germany is seeking a Software Engineer to help design and deliver data and AI solutions within our Enabling Functions Data Office, shaping scalable data platforms and analytics across HR, procurement, and legal domains.

You will join an internationally distributed team, work with Snowflake, AWS, and Palantir Foundry, and contribute to AI use cases spanning automation and procurement analytics.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and delivering software in enterprise settings.
• Strong focus on clean, maintainable code and scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable applications, data pipelines, and platform components.
• Develop robust interfaces that replace manual processes with intuitive user experiences.
• Take ownership of data platforms, ensuring governance, security, and compliance across the full data lifecycle.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand needs and shape the technical direction of solutions.
• Shape the future of data engineering within Enabling Functions, leveraging platforms such as Snowflake, AWS, and Palantir Foundry.
• Contribute to a growing Spain-based hub within a global team.

Job description

Work Your Magic with us! Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

Your Role

Data and AI are reshaping the way global organizations operate, and this role sits at the heart of that transformation. As a Software Engineer within our Enabling Functions Data Office, you will design and deliver high-impact data and AI solutions that power smarter ways of working across the organization. You will be part of a collaborative, internationally distributed team of engineers and architects, working within a Product-Oriented Delivery model to bring Analytics, AI, and data products to life at scale.

In This Role, You Will

• Design, build, and maintain scalable applications, data pipelines, and platform components that translate complex business requirements from enabling functions such as HR, procurement, and legal into future-ready technical solutions.
• Develop robust applications and interfaces that replace manual processes with seamless, intuitive user experiences.
• Take ownership of data platforms, ensuring cost efficiency, governance, security, and compliance across the full data lifecycle.
• Partner closely with stakeholders across your delivery pod to understand business needs and shape the technical direction of solutions.
• Shape the future of data engineering within Enabling Functions, leveraging platforms such as Snowflake, AWS, and Palantir Foundry.
• Contribute to a growing Spain-based hub within a global team, with the opportunity to work on diverse and high-visibility AI use cases spanning automation, carbon footprint analytics, procurement intelligence, and more.

Who You Are

• You bring several years of proven expertise and experience in software engineering, including application design, development, and delivery within enterprise environments, with a strong foundation in writing clean, maintainable, and