Associate Specialist, Data Engineering

Job Description

Required Skills:

Agile Application Development, Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Business Intelligence (BI), Computer Science, Database Administration, Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Pipelines, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Information Management, Microsoft Azure, MySQL, Php Mysql, PostgreSQL, Programming Languages, Project Planning, Python (Programming Language), Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Designs

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Associate 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

A Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust data pipelines/report and infrastructure that facilitate the collection, storage, and processing of large datasets. They ensure data/insight is accessible, reliable, and optimized for analysis by collaborating with data scientists and analysts. Key tasks include data integration, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, report design and managing databases and cloud-based systems. Data engineers play a crucial role in enabling data-driven decision-making and ensuring data quality across organizations.

What will you do in this role

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines to extract data from various sources and populate a data lake and data warehouse. 
• Work closely with data scientists, analysts, and business teams to understand data requirements and deliver solutions aligned with business goals.
• Build and maintain platforms that support data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration across various data sources, both internal and external.
• Use data orchestration, logging, and monitoring tools to build resilient pipelines. 
• Automate data flows and pipeline monitoring to ensure scalability, performance, and resilience of the DI platform.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues related to the data integration platform, ensuring uptime and reliability.
• Maintain thorough documentation for integration processes, configurations, and code to ensure easy onboarding for new team members and future scalability.
• Develop pipelines to ingest data into cloud data warehouses.
• Establish, modify and maintain data structures and associated components.
• Create and deliver standard reports in accordance with stakeholder needs and conforming to agreed standards.
• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the project manager.
• Participate in project planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with both functional and project goals.

What should you have

• Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• Experienced in software/data engineering practices (including versioning, release management, deployment of datasets, agile & related software tools).
• 3+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles. 
• Technical Skills: 
• Proficient in SQL and experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL). 
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and their data services (e.g., Redshift, BigQuery) 
• Familiarity with DataBricks, dbt, AirFlow, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Rest API 
• Strong coding skills in programming languages such as Python.
• Data Modeling: Knowledge of data modelling techniques and concepts. (Star/Dimensional/Normalized) 
• Analytical Skills: Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex data sets. 
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. 
• Agile Methodologies: Experience with Agile development methodologies is a plus. 
• Capability to quickly learn modern technologies and adapt to evolving project requirements.  
• Experience with CI/CD 
• Preferred Qualifications: 
• Knowledge of data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI). 
• Knowledge of modern data architecture patterns like data lakehouse, data mesh, or data fabric.  
• Experience with Collibra or similar data catalog tools for metadata management and governance and Immuta for access control 
• Experience in healthcare or Pharma 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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Job Posting End Date:

06/5/2026

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