Specialist, Technology Risk Management
MSD
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Job summary
MSD in Hyderabad seeks a Specialist, Technology Risk Management to join a global biopharma leader focused on medicines, vaccines, and animal health. You will translate technical risk into business context and help implement practical, risk-based controls that enable safe operations and innovation.
You will collaborate with IT risk, cybersecurity, compliance, and product teams to assess risk, document controls, and track remediation across applications, data, cloud services, and third parties.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in IT, cybersecurity, computer science, data science, engineering, life sciences, business administration, or a related field.
- 3 to 6 years of experience.
Responsibilities
- Support risk advisory engagements for IT and business teams across research, development, clinical trials operations, regulatory activities, and enabling functions.
- Translate cybersecurity and compliance requirements into clear, practical actions for product teams and stakeholders.
- Participate in planning forums and program governance to identify security, privacy, data integrity, and compliance considerations early in the lifecycle.
- Prepare concise risk summaries and status updates for BIRO leadership and stakeholders.
- Maintain risk registers with risk statements, ownership, treatment plans, and evidence of closure.
- Assist owners in evaluating risk treatment options including mitigation, compensating controls, and transfer or acceptance.
- Track remediation commitments and escalate overdue items to BIRO leadership.
- Review architecture and operational controls for systems and digital capabilities (IAM, config, vulnerability, data protection, backups, BCD).
- Contribute to governance by coordinating control reviews and remediation readiness for Crown Jewel apps.
- Assist with risk analysis for emerging tech (AI/ML, cloud, lab tech) and document remediation recommendations.
- Partner with cybersecurity experts to clarify control requirements and write practical remediation guidance.
- Support compliance activities including control testing, audits, inspections, and remediation in regulated environments.
- Evaluate risks affecting GxP processes, privacy obligations, records retention, IP and data integrity.
- Support incident coordination by documenting impact and coordinating with response teams.
- Develop and operationalize security guidance, standards, and reusable job aids.
Skills
Education
Job description
- 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.
- 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.
The position acts as a trusted risk advisor, translating technical risk into business context and supporting the implementation of practical, risk-based controls that enable safe business operations and innovation.
The Business Information Risk Specialist supports the alignment of cybersecurity, information risk management, and compliance activities of the Information Technology Risk Management & Security (ITRMS) organization with the objectives of our company’s Research Laboratories Business Unit. The role partners with one of the IT, business stakeholders supporting research, development, clinical operations, regulatory, and ITRMS to identify, assess, document, and help mitigate information security and compliance risks across applications, data, cloud services, third parties, and digital initiatives.
- Support risk advisory engagements for IT and business teams across research, development, clinical trials operations, regulatory activities, and related enabling functions.
- Help translate cybersecurity and compliance requirements into clear, practical actions for product teams, application owners, project teams, and business stakeholders.
- Participate in planning forums, product discussions, and program governance activities to help identify security, privacy, data integrity, and compliance considerations early in the lifecycle.
- Prepare concise risk summaries, decision options, and status updates for review by BIRO leadership and stakeholders.
- Support maintenance of related risk registers, including risk statements, ownership, treatment plans, target dates, residual risk, and evidence of closure.
- Assist business and technology owners in evaluating risk treatment options, including mitigation, compensating controls, exception requests, acknowledgement, transfer, or acceptance, in accordance with enterprise requirements.
- Track remediation commitments, follow up with accountable owners, validate supporting evidence, and elevate overdue or material items through the appropriate BIRO lead.
- Technology and Cybersecurity Risk
- Support reviews of architecture, solution design, and operational controls for systems and digital capabilities, including identity and access, configuration, vulnerability management, data protection, integration security, backup, recovery, and business continuity.
- Contribute to Crown Jewel application governance by coordinating control reviews, risk posture updates, remediation tracking, and readiness activities.
- Assist with risk analysis for emerging technologies and innovation, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, advanced analytics, cloud platforms, laboratory technologies, and external data exchange.
- Partner with cybersecurity and technology subject-matter experts to clarify control requirements and document practical remediation recommendations.
- Compliance, Assurance, and Incident Support
- Support compliance and assurance activities relevant to including control testing, audits, inspections, assessments, and remediation follow-up in regulated environments.
- Help evaluate technology risks affecting GxP-regulated processes, sensitive research and clinical information, privacy obligations, records retention, intellectual property, and data integrity.
- Support security event and incident coordination by gathering facts, documenting business impact, monitoring corrective actions, and connecting stakeholders with the appropriate response teams.
- Contribute to the development and operationalization of security guidance, standards, procedures, and reusable job aids for teams.
- Risk Visibility, Awareness, and Continuous Improvement
- Prepare routine risk reporting and operational updates that highlight risk trends, remediation status, milestones, dependencies, and items requiring leadership awareness.
- Analyze recurring issues and identify opportunities to improve risk processes, stakeholder guidance, controls, reporting, and customer experience.
- Contribute to targeted cybersecurity awareness and training for audiences, tailored to scientific, clinical, regulatory, and technology work practices.
- Stay informed about relevant cyber threats, regulatory expectations, industry practices, and emerging technologies, and raise potential impacts for review.
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, cybersecurity, computer science, data science, engineering, life sciences, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 3 to 6 years of experience.
- Experience or demonstrated foundational knowledge in cybersecurity, technology risk management, IT compliance, IT audit, privacy, quality, or a related field.
- Experience supporting risk assessments, control reviews, remediation tracking, or compliance activities is preferred.
- Experience in a regulated industry, particularly pharmaceuticals, life sciences, healthcare, research, clinical operations, or manufacturing, is preferred but not required.
- Exposure to cloud, application, data, AI, laboratory, or operational technology security is beneficial.
- Skills and Competencies
- Foundational understanding of security controls, technology risks, vulnerabilities, data protection, and risk treatment concepts.
- Ability to analyze information, identify gaps, organize evidence, and produce clear, prioritized, and actionable recommendations.
- Ability to explain technical and compliance topics in understandable business language.
- Strong written and verbal communication, organization, follow-through, and attention to detail.
- Ability to collaborate across scientific, clinical, regulatory, technology, privacy, quality, legal, procurement, and cybersecurity teams.
- Comfort working independently on defined assignments while seeking guidance appropriately for complex or material risk decisions.
- Adaptability, learning agility, sound judgment, and a practical, service-oriented approach.
- High integrity and discretion when handling sensitive research, clinical, regulatory, security, and business information.
- Preferred Credentials
- Entry-level or developing certifications in cybersecurity, risk, audit, privacy, cloud, project management, or data governance are beneficial.
- Advanced certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, or CRISC may be valuable for career growth but are not required for this Specialist role.
- Cybersecurity Fundamentals
- Technology Risk Management
- IT Compliance and Governance
- Risk Assessments and Control Reviews
- Vulnerability and Security Risk Analysis
- Data Protection and Information Security Controls
- Risk Remediation Tracking and Management
- IT Audit and Assurance Support
- Security Control Evaluation
- Risk Reporting and Documentation
- Stakeholder Management and Cross-functional Collaboration
- Strong Written and Verbal Communication Skills
- Regulatory and Compliance Awareness
- Incident and Risk Management
- Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
- Pharmaceutical, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Clinical Operations, or Manufacturing Industry Experience
- Cloud Security
- Application Security
- Data Security and Data Governance
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning Risk Management
- Laboratory Technology Security
- Operational Technology (OT) Security
- Privacy and Data Protection Regulations
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- Crown Jewel Application Governance
- Cybersecurity Awareness and Training
- Audit and Inspection Support
- Third-Party Risk Management
- Project Management
- Certifications such as Security+, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, or similar (preferred but not required).
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.
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.
Assurance Services, Compliance Awareness, Control Assessment, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Documentations, Incident Management, Information Security Management, Information Technology Auditing, IT Compliance Management, IT Governance, IT Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC), Regulatory Awareness, Risk Assessments, Risk Management, Risk Remediation, Risk Reporting, Security Controls, Security Risk Analysis, Stakeholder Management, Technology Risk Management, Tracking Management
Regular
Domestic
No
No Travel Required
Hybrid
Not Indicated
No
n/a
11/5/2026
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