Manager, Visual Analytics Engineer

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Manager, Visual Analytics Engineer

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:

We are seeking a Analytics platform engineer to become a member of our Decision Intelligence team, within the Analytics team.

The Analytics team, which is under Integration, Data and Anaytics Foundations, part of the Digital Foundations within Chief Technology Office, is responsible for creating a seamless experience for analytics experts to harness the potential of data and interactive analytics. The Decision intelligence team plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between data engineering and data analysis.

This role involves demonstrating skills and gaining experience in platform engineering, automations, observability, and innovations. As a platform engineer, you will collaborate with the Technical lead, Technical Platform Owner, Architects, and other stakeholders from the company to develop scalable and high-performing enterprise platforms. The position requires technical engineering of the platforms and enabling capabilities in compliance with best practices. It also involves working on cross-platform activities.

What you'll do

• Support architecting, designing, planning, building and operating activities related to Decision Intelligence platforms at Merck.
• Coordinate geographically distributed teams in support of platform engineering activities; automation, upgrade and patch coordination, platform administration guidance, monitoring, troubleshooting and performance analysis.
• As a subject matter expert drive the definition of best practices, platform governance and  platform delivery guidelines.
• Support Decision Intelligence technology roadmap and future state capabilities.
• Write technical documentation including, but not limited to configuration artifacts, infrastructure/technical diagrams, installation qualification and validation documentation.
• Maintain current industry knowledge of best practices and procedures.
• Provide technical expertise and support to internal stakeholders and implementation teams.
• Effectively engage, both in person and virtually, with a global, multi-cultural team across different products to identify and leverage synergies.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

We are seeking professionals with the following qualifications, skills and experience:

Education Minimum Requirement: 

• BSc in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

Required skills

• A strong understanding of Power BI, Qlik Sense, Spotfire and similar tools. Architectural understanding and platform engineering experience on these tools.
• Experience in building and supporting large scale visualization platforms and solutions using modern cloud technologies.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python and Powershell.
• Good understanding of AWS cloud eco system and hands on experience with services like EC2, RDS, Lambda etc.
• Good understanding of Terraform and CI/CD tools.
• Familiarity with Release Management, Problem and Incident Management, Software Development Life Cycle best practices.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical and non-technical information verbally and in writing.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to quickly establish credibility and trust with a variety of stakeholders.

Nice to have skills

• Knowledge of Azure cloud services.
• Basic understanding of Power Platform tools.
• Prior experience in developing and launching multi-tenant platforms that cater to technical user base
• Knowledge and experience of any Conversational BI tool.
• Basic understanding of Copilots, LLM’s and AI Agents.
• Certifications in one or more cloud technologies.

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

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Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Required Skills:

Business Intelligence (BI), Database Administration, Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Information Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Designs

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Job Posting End Date:

06/16/2025

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