Director, Data Engineering Delivery Lead

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 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 serve our company purpose to 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 in our global organization that partners across the entire company. 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  

 

Are you ready to step into a leading IT role where you could help make a real difference in people's lives? Become our new “Data Integration delivery lead” Director and guide your team to deliver data-driven insights that better enable us all on our mission to bring hope to those battling the most challenging diseases of our time. If you are ready, make a difference and apply today!  

 

As the Data Integration Delivery Lead, your primary responsibility will be understanding the customer's needs and priorities and developing solutions that align with business goals. You will collaborate with business and IT teams to define complex data projects and propose the most suitable approaches, methodologies, and architectures. In addition, you will closely cooperate with the technical platform team, providing insight and feedback about the Data Engineering platform used during development and cooperating on the constant improvement of the Data Engineering ecosystem. 

 

You will oversee multiple project teams throughout the system lifecycle, from gathering requirements to implementing solutions. Working closely with clients, value team leaders, divisional IT leads, and the Enterprise Architecture team, your objective will be to deliver high-quality work products and deliverables. You will also play a key role in risk assessment, change management, and ensuring the successful delivery of project technical requirements. You will communicate project status to senior client leadership, fostering effective collaborations and maintaining client satisfaction. 

 

Additionally, you will lead a team of data engineers and be responsible for driving their professional and personal development. You will also be responsible for global Tech center cooperation, with a focus on aligning ways of working and effective Tech center cooperation worldwide. 

 

What will you do in this role:  

• Leverage the toolset utilized by various types of Data Engineers, ensuring seamless collaboration with cross-functional data teams across the organization.  

• Drive and manage the team of data engineers and synchronize multiple delivery teams’ ways of working. 

• Develop both short-term and long-term strategies for the delivery teams, make a long-term agreement with the customer, and take responsibility for long-term team utilization. 

• Collaborate with peers in the "Data Integration" and "Central Data and Analytics" teams to provide feedback about the toolset and help define product strategies and overall analytical directions, mainly based on the experience and feedback from the delivery. 

• Define and implement data engineering strategies that align with organizational goals and data governance standards.   

• Engage with key stakeholders across the division to gain insight into short-term and long-term business objectives and value delivery strategies.  

• Lead negotiations with vendors to secure favorable terms and conditions.  

• Connect with external partners and thought leaders to stay current on the latest technologies and trends in Data Engineering.  

• Help to drive consolidation efforts across various tools and customer bases.  

• Plan activities based on the organization's needs, emerging trends, and Central Data and Analytics organization’s vision.  

• Build, nurture, and support subject matter experts, managing talent development and leadership within the team.  

• Retain and attract diverse exceptional talent, fostering an inclusive environment.  

 

What Should you have:  

•   10 – 15 years of relevant experience in IT disciplines, including technical architecture, data and analytics, technical lead, and solution architecture background.  

• Demonstrated expertise in delivering large-scale information management technology solutions encompassing data integration, master data management, and self-service analytics enablement. 

• Experienced manager, having led subject matter expert groups and able to align opinions in a complex matrix organization. 

• Experience in software/data engineering practices (including versioning, release management, deployment of datasets, agile & related software tools).  

• Knowledge of at least one large-scale data processing technology (e.g., High-performance computing, distributed computing), databases, and underlying technology (cloud or on-prem environments, containerization, distributed storage & databases)  

• Cloud-native, ideally AWS certified. 

• Experience in leading IT services organizations focusing on IT services to internal/external customers.  

• Extensive working knowledge in the Data analytics area, ideally in the Data engineering subdomain.  

• Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills with the ability to align the organization on complex technical decisions.  

• Product and customer-centric approach.  

• Innovative thinking, experimental mindset.  

 

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 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:

01/31/2025

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