Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs - Power Platform Solutions Specialist
Merck & Co.
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Job summary
HireLifeScience seeks an Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs – Power Platform Solutions Specialist to technically lead Power Apps, Dataverse, and Power Automate implementations supporting regulatory requirements. You will configure data models, automate workflows, and manage lifecycle across Dev/Test/Prod environments in a global, matrixed setting.
The role requires 5+ years in enterprise platform development, strong Power Platform experience, and ability to partner with Regulatory Affairs
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in relevant computer/engineering/science field or Regulatory Affairs.
- Five+ years of experience developing, configuring, deploying, or supporting enterprise business applications.
- Hands-on Power Platform experience: Power Apps, Dataverse, Power Automate, and lifecycle management.
- Experience designing Dataverse data models, security roles, and environment config.
- Experience deploying across Dev/Test/Prod with release packages and change controls.
- Experience data migration, reconciliation, and data quality validation.
- Strong technical testing and evidence for system testing and validation.
- Ability to collaborate with global stakeholders and manage multiple releases and support work.
Responsibilities
- Implement Power Apps UI changes per approved designs and architecture standards.
- Configure and maintain Dataverse tables, relationships, rules, views, forms, and security.
- Build and optimize Power Automate flows and notifications.
- Translate designs into testable platform components and identify improvements.
- Stay current with Power Platform capabilities to enhance UI, efficiency and value.
- Manage deployments across Development, Test/UAT, and Production environments.
- Deploy upgrades, fixes and enhancements with environment parity and traceability.
- Perform pre/post deployment verification and support rollback when required.
- Document deployment outcomes and provide clear technical notes and evidence.
- Coordinate testing with stakeholders and address gaps or regressions.
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Job description
Our Company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. We are building a new kind of healthcare company, one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us. Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill and teamwork of individuals who collaborate with mutual respect and shared accountability.
is a hands‑on technical execution role supporting our system, the business‑built country regulatory requirements management platform within Global Regulatory Affairs and Clinical Safety. Our system is built on Microsoft Power Platform, with Dataverse as its data foundation, Power Apps for user experiences, Power Automate for workflow and notifications, Power BI for analytics, Microsoft Teams for notifications, and SharePoint for support and governance content.
As a member of the Platform Team, the incumbent translates approved architecture and business designs into secure, reliable, supportable solutions. The role executes application configuration, data engineering, automated workflows, environment and pipeline management, defect remediation, technical testing, release deployment, and production support. The specialist takes direction from the System Platform Architect and Design Authority, and works alongside the System Operations Lead to validate success of development activities.
- Implement Power Apps user‑interface changes in accordance with approved designs and established architecture standards.
- Configure and maintain Dataverse tables, columns, relationships, business rules, views, forms, security roles, permissions, and access‑provisioning logic.
- Build, support, and optimize Power Automate flows, workflows, notifications, and other approved automation used by the system.
- Translate solution designs and business requirements into working, testable, and maintainable platform components.
- Identify opportunities to improve the current system, bring innovative enhancement ideas, remain versed in new and emerging Power Platform tools, design capabilities, and user‑interface development approaches supporting modernised Power Apps UI and usability, efficiency, and long‑term platform value.
- Manage solution movement and deployments across Development, Test/User Acceptance Test, and Production environments.
- Prepare and deploy approved upgrades, defect fixes, hotfixes, and enhancements while maintaining environment parity and configuration consistency.
- Perform pre‑deployment and post‑deployment verification, document deployment outcomes, and support controlled rollback or corrective action when required.
- Maintain solution versioning, deployment notes, release evidence, and technical traceability aligned with system Software Development Lifecycle expectations.
- Develop, test, execute, and document scripts and repeatable processes for data cleanup, migration, correction, reconciliation, and bulk remediation.
- Perform field‑level quality checks to confirm that transferred data is complete and accurate, not solely that record counts match.
- Support data fixes during business validation, User Acceptance Test, release, and hypercare windows, including approved non‑architectural Production hotfixes.
- Partner with business data owners and technical leads to investigate discrepancies, protect the trusted data baseline, and prevent reuse of superseded or flawed source files.
- Diagnose technical issues across Power Apps, Dataverse, Power Automate, Power BI dependencies, permissions, data, integrations, and environment configuration.
- Perform thorough unit testing of each developed fix in the Development environment before handoff for broader system testing.
- Provide technical notes, deployment details, and test evidence that clearly describe the defect, change made, expected behaviour, and validation performed.
- Coordinate with the System Operations Lead and business requestors through system testing and user validation; address gaps, regressions, or incomplete resolution.
- Participate in release and hyper‑care coverage, issue triage, root‑cause investigation, and escalation to Microsoft or Enterprise IT as appropriate.
- Create and maintain accurate technical documentation, including configuration specifications, solution designs, data models, flow and workflow logic, deployment procedures, support runbooks, and known technical dependencies.
- Apply Power Platform engineering practices for maintainability, scalability, performance, security, reusable design, and controlled data exposure.
- Support peer review, code and solution review, auditability, backup and recovery readiness, and change‑control evidence.
- Work effectively in a matrixed, global environment with Regulatory Affairs, Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control, Regulatory Affairs International, RSI, System Process and Regulatory Innovation, Data Governance, Change Control Board representatives, and technical partners.
- Provide clear technical estimates, risks, dependencies, and implementation options to support release planning and prioritisation.
- Support approved enhancements and interoperability opportunities involving system regulatory data, reporting, planning tools, and future AI‑enabled solutions.
- Contribute to a sustainable business‑supported operating model by transferring knowledge, documenting repeatable procedures, and enabling other support‑team members.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, Life Sciences, or a related discipline.
- Advanced degree and/or relevant Microsoft Power Platform certifications are preferred.
- Minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience developing, configuring, deploying, or supporting enterprise business applications.
- Demonstrated hands‑on experience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Dataverse, Power Automate, and solution/application lifecycle management.
- Experience designing or configuring Dataverse data models, relationships, business rules, security roles, permissions, views, forms, and environment‑specific configuration.
- Experience managing Dev/Test/Production environments, deployment pipelines, managed solutions, release packages, and production change controls.
- Experience developing data migration, reconciliation, cleanup, or correction processes and validating data at record and field level.
- Experience troubleshooting complex application, workflow, permission, data, integration, and deployment issues through documented root‑cause analysis.
- Experience performing technical/unit testing and preparing clear evidence for system testing and business validation.
- Experience creating and maintaining technical SDLC documentation, operational runbooks, configuration specifications, and deployment records.
- Ability to work effectively with a global audience, including cross‑regional stakeholders, technical teams, and business partners across time zones and cultures.
- Strong collaboration, communication, organisation, and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage overlapping releases, operational support, and enhancement work in a regulated matrix environment.
- Experience supporting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, regulatory, safety, clinical, or other regulated business processes.
- Experience with Power BI datasets and reports, Microsoft Teams notification patterns, SharePoint integration, APIs, connectors, or broader Microsoft 365 integration.
- Experience with Jira or comparable backlog, source‑control, and technical work‑management tools.
- Knowledge of Power Platform governance, security, performance optimisation, delegation, solution checker, peer review, and enterprise support practices.
- Experience supporting global UAT, release readiness, post‑production hyper‑care, and direct engagement with Microsoft support.
- Experience designing reusable automation or interoperability patterns and supporting AI‑enabled or agent‑based solutions using governed enterprise data.
- Business Applications Development
- Change Controls
- Data Engineering
- Defects Management
- Microsoft Dataverse
- Microsoft Power Apps
- Microsoft Power Automate
- Microsoft Power Platform Copilot
- Problem Solving
- Release Management
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Software Testing
- Technical Troubleshooting
- API Integration
- Atlassian JIRA
- Azure Devops
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Solution Architecture
- Technical Change Management
Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities.
As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, colour, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit: EEOC Know Your Rights EEOC GINA Supplement.
We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively.
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The salary range for this role is $129,000.00 - $203,100.00
The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long‑term incentive, if applicable.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits .
San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance
Regular
No relocation
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10/15/2026
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