Senior Specialist, Technical Architecture

3640 MSD Hyderabad Global Capabilities Center India Private Limited; India; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck & Co., Inc. Hyderabad is seeking a hands-on Technical and Data Architect to own the end-to-end data architecture for commercial analytics products. You will design scalable patterns, lead PoCs, and translate business needs into robust technical solutions.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to enforce best practices and drive data governance in a global context. Prior pharma data experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Master's in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Hands-on ownership of end-to-end data architecture solutions.
• Proven experience with Databricks and modern data lakehouse patterns.
• Strong SQL and Python (PySpark) skills for engineering and prototyping.
• Experience with CI/CD, Terraform, and DevOps for data platforms.
• Familiarity with BI tools such as Tableau or Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical design for data products from ingestion to consumption.
• Design scalable data architectures (batch/streaming, lakehouse, data mesh).
• Lead Proof-of-Concepts to validate new tools and capabilities.
• Translate business needs into technical architecture and data models.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to ensure scalability.
• Establish architecture best practices and maintain documentation.
• Assess emerging tools and provide build/buy/adopt recommendations.
• Mentor engineering teams during implementation.

Skills

Databricks

AWS

Data architecture

SQL

Python

CI/CD

Terraform

Tableau/Power BI

Data governance

PoC delivery

Education

Bachelors/Masters in CS/DS/Engineering/IS

Tools

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Glue/Redshift

Job description

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

We are seeking a hands-on Technical and Data Architect to join the Central Data & Analytics team supporting the Commercial domain. This is a builder role focused on owning and driving the end-to-
turn technical design and data architecture for our commercial data analytics products. You will be responsible for designing scalable architectures, building and leading Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs), and translating business needs into robust technical solutions.

What will you do in this role

• Own end-to-end technical design for data products supporting commercial use cases from source ingestion through consumption layer
• Design scalable data architecture patterns (batch/streaming, lakehouse, data mesh) aligned to enterprise standards
• Build and lead Proof of Concepts to validate new tools, patterns, and platform capabilities
• Translate business requirements into technical architecture, data models, and integration designs
• Partner with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to ensure designs are implementable and scalable
• Establish and enforce architecture best practices, reusable patterns, and technical documentation
• Evaluate emerging tools and platform capabilities; make build/buy/adopt recommendations
• Provide technical mentorship to engineering teams during implementation

Primary Skills

• Databricks, AWS, Data Architecture & Data analytics
• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Required 812+ years in data engineering/architecture roles, with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end solution design
• Deep, hands‑on expertise with Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, workflows, cluster/job optimization)
• Strong AWS experience (S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift, IAM, networking fundamentals)
• Proficiency in SQL and Python (PySpark) for data engineering and prototyping
• Experience with modern data architecture patterns: lakehouse, medallion architecture, data mesh
• Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and DevOps practices for data platforms
• Working knowledge of BI/analytics tools (Tableau, Power BI) and API‑based integration patterns
• Track record of hands‑on PoC delivery, not just architecture diagrams
• Understanding of data governance, security, and access control frameworks
• Preferred Experience in pharma/life sciences commercial data (sales, market access, patient data) a plus, not required
• Prior experience architecting for a central/shared‑services data platform team
• Certifications: Databricks Certified Data Engineer/Architect, AWS Solutions Architect

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 .