Associate Director, Solution Architect – Global Sourcing & Procurement

Job Description

Associate Director, Solution Architect – Global Sourcing & Procurement

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

The Senior Solution Architect (R4) is a global architecture leader and design authority responsible for defining, governing, and evolving end to end solutions across Procurement, Sourcing, Supplier Management, and Intelligent Spend domains.

This role spans SAP and non-SAP platforms, advanced AI driven and agentic solutions, and enterprise integrations, shaping technology strategy, roadmaps, and architectural standards for global adoption.

Operating with significant autonomy, the role influences platform strategy, investment priorities, and innovation adoption, while enabling scalable, secure, and intelligent business outcomes.

What will you do in this role:

Enterprise Solution Architecture & Design Authority (Scope)

• Serve as the primary design authority for global sourcing, Procurement and Supplier Management solutions, accountable for architectural decisions across programs and releases.
• Define and govern enterprise architecture standards, principles, and patterns, ensuring consistency across regions, products, and delivery teams.
• Lead architecture reviews and approve designs covering process, integration, data, security, and deployment layers.
• Own architectural trade‑off decisions balancing business value, technical sustainability, risk, and cost.

SAP Intelligent Spend Management – Global Design Leadership

• Lead solution architecture across SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP MDG and non-SAP Solution capabilities at enterprise scale.
• Architect end‑to‑end solutions for Source‑to‑Contract, Procure‑to‑Pay, Supplier Lifecycle & Risk Management, Contingent Workforce, and Master Data.
• Guide global implementations and transformations, ensuring adherence to SAP best practices and enterprise governance.
• Influence SAP platform adoption and roadmap alignment in partnership with Enterprise Architecture and Product teams.
• Lead architecture for AI‑enabled and agentic solutions across Sourcing and Procurement domains, partner with Data, AI, and Digital teams to embed responsible AI capabilities into sourcing, procurement, and supplier workflows.

Cross‑Functional & Global Collaboration

• Act as a senior architecture partner to Business Process Owners, Product Managers, Engineering Leads, Integration Architects, Security, and Data teams.
• Drive architectural alignment across globally distributed teams and vendors, particularly within the Hyderabad delivery ecosystem.
• Influence senior stakeholders through clear communication, architectural storytelling, and data‑driven recommendations.

Architecture Artifacts, Workshops & Governance

• Lead and facilitate executive‑level and working‑level workshops for requirements, solution design, and architecture validation.
• Produce and govern architecture artifacts including architecture flows, system context diagrams, integration views, and deployment models using Visio and enterprise architecture tools.
• Ensure architecture documentation is complete, current, and consumable across delivery and operations teams.

Technology Strategy & Roadmaps (Accountability)

• Define and contribute to multi‑year technology strategies and capability roadmaps for Procurement and Supplier Management platforms.
• Identify opportunities to simplify landscapes, reduce technical debt, modernize integrations, and improve scalability and resilience.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and SAP roadmap items, translating them into actionable architectural direction.

Leadership, Mentorship & Organizational Impact

• Mentor and guide Junior Solution Architects, Technical Leads, and software engineers, raising overall architecture maturity within HTC.
• Establish architecture best practices and reusable patterns to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
• Act as a role model for collaboration, accountability, and architectural excellence within global delivery teams.

What should you have:

Required Experience

• 15+ years of experience in Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, or Large‑Scale Global IT Delivery.
• Demonstrated success as a senior design authority on complex, multi‑region programs.
• Deep, hands‑on architecture experience with SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, and SAP MDG.
• Strong background in integration architecture, data flows, and cross‑system orchestration.
• Experience working in matrixed, global organizations with distributed teams.

Certifications (Required / Strongly Preferred)

• SAP Ariba Certified
• SAP Fieldglass Certified
• SAP S/4HANA Certified
• Certified Solution Architect (Enterprise / Platform / Equivalent)

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technology (required)

Core Competencies (Expectations)

• Executive level communication and stakeholder influence
• Strong systems thinking and architectural judgment
• Ability to drive alignment without direct authority
• Proven leadership in ambiguity and complex decision making
• Global mindset with strong collaboration across cultures and regions

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 lives, 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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Required Skills:

Data Modeling, Design Applications, Release Management, Requirements Management, Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration

Preferred Skills:

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Job Posting End Date:

04/22/2026

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