Job Description

Senior. Specialist , Data Engineering

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

This position will be reporting to the Data Products Delivery lead within the Data Platform & Products (DPP) product line organization. This role is responsible for delivering reusable  data models  that power analytics, AI, and digital transformation across the Manufacturing Division. The successful candidate will drive the delivery of data products in line with the roadmap driven by data demands.

The candidate will work closely with data product teams, the data platform team, solution delivery, data architecture, and business partners to ensure that data products are delivered on time and aligned with business needs.

What will you do in this role

• Ensure data products are delivered on time and in line with the agreed roadmap.

• Work with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into clear delivery tasks, priorities, and execution plans.

• Work closely with analytics teams and value team partners to ensure data products meet expected timelines, requirements, and business outcomes.

• Ensure technical decisions are made in a timely manner and align with established standards, architecture principles, and governance requirements.

• Ensure that the data products are build and delivered in accordance within the GMP framework where needed.
• Coordinate the work between developers , testers , compliance leads, quality and business owners.
• Ensure technical and process-based roadblocks are resolved in a timely manner without impacting deployment.

• Support the operations and maintenance of data products to ensure reliability, continuity, and performance.

• Work with leaders to identify new capabilities needed to improve delivery effectiveness while ensuring customer needs are met.

• Continuously improve the delivery framework to enhance execution efficiency, quality, and governance.

• Help drive the use of AI in building data products and ensure that data products are designed and maintained to be AI-ready.

What should you have

   Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.

Required Experience and Skills:

• 3+ years of experience delivering data products (ETL and modelling)

• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on data engineering and/or related experience across ELT/ETL pipelines, data enablement tools, coding languages, and cloud-based data lakes.

• Experience with manufacturing, quality, and supply chain data is required.

• Experience working in a GMP-regulated environment.

• Strong experience with data enablement patterns, including:
  • Streaming data
  • Near real-time ingestion (NRT)
  • Data virtualization
  • Batch ingestion (file sharing)
  • JDBC ingestion
  • API-based ingestion

• Deep understanding of data modeling concepts at both conceptual and detailed levels.

• Hands-on expertise with modern data tools and technologies, including DBT, Databricks, SQL, Trino, and S3.

• Extensive experience with GitHub-based development workflows and Jira for work orchestration.

• Strong background in data quality, lineage, metadata, and observability.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience with change and release management processes.

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with a globally dispersed team.

• Demonstrated ability to solve problems with a sense of ownership, enthusiasm and innovation.

• Ability to work in a global, multi-cultural, English speaking environment.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Master’s degree in a relevant field.

• Strong subject matter and business domain knowledge across manufacturing operations, quality, and supply chain.

• Experience supporting manufacturing sites and above-site functions with digital and analytics capabilities.

• Experience delivering large-scale cloud data ecosystem implementations.

Primary Skills

Hands on in Data products.

Drive team of people who are building data products using ETL, SQL.

• Streaming data
• Near real-time ingestion (NRT)
• Data virtualization
• Batch ingestion (file sharing)
• JDBC ingestion
• API-based ingestion

2 or 3 from above bullet points.

Deep understanding of data modeling concepts at both conceptual and detailed levels.

GMP regulated - mandatory or Pharma/Life science/Healthcare industry

DBT, Databricks, SQL, Trino, and S3 one or two

Who we are

We are known as well-known org Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, 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.

#HYDIT2025

Required Skills:

Asset Management, Benefits Management, Collaborative Communications, Computer Science, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, Data Quality, Digital Transformation, GMP Compliance, Management System Development, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Support, Production Operations, Product Management, Release Management, Requirements Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

07/6/2026

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