Associate Director, FinTech - Tax Data and Analytics Solution Architect

Job Description

R4- Associate Director, FinTech - Tax Data and Analytics Solution Architect

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 company’s 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

The FinTech Data and Analytics Solution Architect/Developer  will sit within the Enterprise IT function supporting Global Finance. It is responsible for identifying and delivering business solutions in partnership with our Corporate Tax and Information Technology colleagues. This role involves supporting our global income and indirect tax functions by leveraging advanced cloud-based solutions. You will help us shift to modern ways of working, accelerating our strategy execution to increase flexibility, speed up solution delivery, and drive significant business value.

As a leader within the IT group, you will:

• Build and sustain relationships with Corporate Tax and IT colleagues to lead the delivery of business solutions
• Develop a deep understanding of the business processes, systems, and data supporting strategic processes and programs in our income tax and indirect tax areas
• Lead the design and development of solutions across various technology platforms to meet requirements
• Implement key applications to ensure alignment between business needs and solutions, in collaboration with our technology partners
• Evaluate new ideas and proposed methods for practicality and ease of implementation
• Use an open communication style that actively acknowledges others' thoughts and opinions
• Independently solve problems that arise within job responsibilities and expectations
• Share best practices, tools, and techniques within the Tax Management product line
• Collaborate with vendors to ensure optimal solutions and enhance product capabilities to improve overall value
• Join agile teams and work collectively towards common goals
• Thrive in a dynamic, rapidly changing, and highly matrixed business environment

What we need:

Technical skills:

• At least 5 years of technical experience in solution design and development of data and analytics solutions, including leadership roles in delivering solutions
• Experience in Data Modeling/Design using cloud-based technology stacks (ex.: Databricks,  Matillion, Redshift, Azure)
• Experience in designing and building complex reports and dashboards using leading business intelligence platforms (e.g., Microsoft Power BI, Spotfire, SAP Analytics Cloud)
• Experience developing reporting and analytics solutions on cloud platforms
• Ability to gather requirements and translate them into design

• Experience in working ERP financial data and systems – SAP S/4 and ECC preferred
• Working knowledge of Agile Collaboration Tools (i.e. Jira, Confluence, etc.)
• Experience in building solutions using data virtualization technology (Trino, SDA)
• Proficiency in building SQL-based procedures, table functions, and calculation views

Leadership skills:

• Critical thinker who can effectively embrace new ideas and technologies while balancing the stakeholder and user needs
• Hands-on Agile experience, pharmaceutical or regulated industry experience a plus
• Ability to gather requirements and translate them into design
• Critical thinker who can effectively embrace new ideas and technologies while balancing the stakeholder and user needs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage both business and technical audiences

You will learn:

• How to help multi-billion pharma enterprise adopt new ways of working
• How pharmaceutical companies work and operate
• About opportunities to create significant value through digital technology in healthcare

Travel:  10%                                                                                                                 

Education Minimum Requirements:

• High School Diploma required
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field preferred

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 inventing for life, 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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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

06/2/2025

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