Senior Manager, Data and Analytics Architect

Job Description

Senior Specialist,    Data and Analytics 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.
• Lead an Organization driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that supports a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be the leaders who have a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, which will allow 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 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 talented and motivated Technical Architect to join our Data and Analytics Strategy & Architecture team. Reporting to the Lead Architect, this mid-level Technical Architect role is critical in shaping the technical foundation of our cross-product architecture. The ideal candidate will focus on reference architecture, driving proofs of concept (POCs) and points of view (POVs), staying updated on industry trends, solving technical architecture issues, and enabling a robust data observability framework. The role will also emphasize enterprise data marketplaces and data catalogs   to ensure data accessibility, governance, and usability.

 This position will also focus on creating a customer-centric development environment that is resilient and easily adoptable by various user personas. The outcome of the cross-product integration will be improved efficiency and productivity through accelerated provisioning times and a seamless user experience, eliminating the need for interacting with multiple platforms and teams. 

What will you do in the role:

• Collaborate with product line teams to design and implement cohesive architecture solutions that enable cross-product integration, spanning ingestion, governance, analytics, and visualization.
• Develop, maintain, and advocate for reusable reference architectures that align with organizational goals and industry standards.
• Lead technical POCs and POVs to evaluate new technologies, tools, and methodologies, providing actionable recommendations.
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical architecture issues, ensuring stability, scalability, and performance across platforms.
• Implement and maintain frameworks to monitor data quality, lineage, and reliability across data pipelines.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of an enterprise data marketplace to facilitate self-service data discovery, analytics, and consumption.
• Oversee and extend the use of Collibra or similar tools to enhance metadata management, data governance, and cataloging across the enterprise.
• Monitor emerging industry trends in data and analytics (e.g., AI/ML, data engineering, cloud platforms) and identify opportunities to incorporate them into our ecosystem.
• Work closely with data engineers, data scientists, and other architects to ensure alignment with the enterprise architecture strategy.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, decision records, and POC/POV results.

  What Should you have: 

• Strong experience with Databricks, Dataiku, Starburst and related data engineering/analytics platforms.
• Proficiency in AWS cloud platforms and AWS Data and Analytics technologies
• Knowledge of modern data architecture patterns like data Lakehouse, data mesh, or data fabric.
• Hands-on experience with Collibra or similar data catalog tools for metadata management and governance.
• Familiarity with data observability tools and frameworks to monitor data quality and reliability.
• Experience contributing to or implementing enterprise data marketplaces, including facilitating self-service data access and analytics.
• Exposure to designing and implementing scalable, distributed architectures.
• Proven experience in diagnosing and resolving technical issues in complex systems.
• Passion for exploring and implementing innovative tools and technologies in data and analytics.
• 3–5 years of total experience in data engineering, analytics, or architecture roles.
• Hands-on experience with developing ETL pipelines with DBT, Matillion and Airflow.
• Experience with data modeling, and data visualization tools (e.g., ThoughtSpot, Power BI).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
• Focus on continuous learning and professional growth.

Preferred Skills:

• Certification in Databricks, Dataiku, or a major cloud platform.
• Experience with orchestration tools like Airflow or Prefect.
• Understanding of AI/ML workflows and platforms.
• Exposure to frameworks like Apache Spark or Kubernetes.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation

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 intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today. 

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