Senior Manager Network Data Analyst

Job Description

Senior Manager Network Data Analyst (Capacity Planning)

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 companys’ 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 an experienced Network Data nalyst to join our Network Observability organization. The role will be responsible for execution on our network capacity planning strategy and best practices.  Under the direction and leadership of the Network Capacity Planning Product Manager, the primary responsibility of this analyst is to gather information from networking monitoring tools and system logs, analyze the information to make informed decisions regarding the enterprise network’s capacity and performance.

What will you do in this role

Functional Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with demand management, network teams, and business units to understand current and future network requirements for capacity planning aligned with business goals.

• Conduct thorough analysis of network traffic, utilization rates, and performance metrics using predictive analysis to identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement. Incorporate historical data and consider projected growth and scalability requirements.

• Collaborate with network engineers and implementation teams to plan hardware upgrades or enhancements to components of the network infrastructure.

• Provide regular reports to management and stakeholders, including KPIs, utilization metrics, and recommendations for optimizing network capacity.

• Identify and mitigate potential risks related to capacity failures, network congestion, and implement measures to minimize performance degradation and outages.

• Participate in cross-functional projects, collaborating with project teams to incorporate capacity planning requirements into project plans and timelines.

Professional Competencies:

• Possess superior interpersonal and communication skills, writing clear and concise proposals and presentations and interfacing with peer, management, stakeholders, and executives

• Ability to create clear and concise presentations for management, stakeholders and executives

• Ability to coordinate work tasks with others for timely completion and to avoid potential setbacks

• Ability to articulate complex and technical ideas accurately and clearly

• Ability to adapt current work processes to meet emerging needs and the ability to evaluate new ideas and proposed methods for practicality and ease of implementation

What should you have

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution or equivalent corporate working experience

• Familiarity with key components and best practices of Observability

• 8+ years of strong engineering or operations experience with the components of a large global network infrastructure such as Routers, switches, LAN/SD-WAN, Load Balancer, Wireless, Cloud Networking and etc

• 2 years of specific experience in analytics or able to clearly articulate data driven decision making process

• Familiarity with network monitoring, reporting, and observability tools such as: SevOne, Logic Monitor, Thousand Eyes, Moogsoft, Dynatrace, NetBrain and/or Elastic

• Administration experience with monitoring tools in creating policies, fine-tuning parameters and setting proper thresholds will be added advantage

• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, and/or Python

• Experience in Ansible will be added advantage

• Experience in production of regular capacity report which will highlight actionable items based on the logic used. Development of key thresholds that will trigger improvement action plan would be added advantage

• Passionate about data and good data evangelist

• Experience with IT service management, ITIL certification preferred

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), Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Measurement Analysis, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Waterfall Model

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Job Posting End Date:

03/6/2025

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