Senior Specialist, Advanced Scientific Computing

Job Description

Senior Specialist, Advanced Scientific Computing

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 Centres 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 Centres 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 Centre 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 Centres.

 

Role Overview

As Senior Specialist of Advanced Scientific Computing, you will provide technical leadership and strategic direction for high‑performance computing (HPC) platforms in AWS. You will be accountable for designing, scaling, and governing cloud‑based environments, with a strong emphasis on Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Automation, and CI/CD practices.

Working closely with R&D stakeholders, platform teams, and senior leadership, you will enable reproducible, secure, and cost‑efficient scientific computing through modern cloud engineering and software development practices.

Based in Hyderabad, this role offers the opportunity to join a global biopharma organization with a strong legacy of scientific innovation and ethical leadership. You will lead advanced scientific computing capabilities within a digitally driven, data‑centric technology organization, enabling research teams across pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and animal health.

What you will do

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of AWS‑based platforms supporting compute‑intensive scientific workloads.
• Establish and govern Infrastructure as Code standards using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Drive CI/CD adoption for platforms, workflows, and scientific applications.
• Provide technical leadership in Ansible, Python and R scripting for workflow automation, data processing, and scientific analysis.
• Optimize architectures for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency in AWS.
• Collaborate with research scientists, data scientists, and platform teams to translate scientific requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Define best practices for security, compliance, and operational excellence in regulated environments.
• Mentor and guide engineers and operations teams promoting high engineering standards and continuous improvement.
• Operate effectively within a matrix organization, contributing to strategic planning and cross‑functional initiatives.

What you should have :

·Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.

• 8+ years of industry experience

Primary Skills

· Extensive (4+ years) hands-on experience engineering, designing and operating in AWS especially around services like EC2, S3, FSx, EFS, RDS, CloudWatch and CloudTrail.

· Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.

· Proven experience implementing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions for infrastructure and application delivery.

· Proficiency in Python, Ansible and bash or other scripting for scientific computing and automation.

· Strong understanding of Linux operating systems,

· Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Secondary Skills

· HPC schedulers, and distributed computing concepts.

· R and Posit environment

· Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments

· Understanding of Computational Chemistry/Biology and Bioinformatics applications

· Understanding of AI/ML/Agentic AI

· Experience with Google Cloud Platform

Our Technology Team

We operate as strategic partners to the business, delivering scalable, cloud‑native solutions that enable scientific innovation. Our teams collaborate globally, combining deep technical expertise with a strong focus on reliability, security, and impact.

Why Join Us

This role offers the opportunity to lead advanced cloud and scientific computing capabilities that directly support life‑changing research. You will work with highly skilled, mission‑driven teams in an environment that values technical excellence, innovation, and meaningful impact.

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.

#HYDIT2026

Required Skills:

Availability Management, Capacity Management, Change Controls, Design Applications, High Performance Computing (HPC), Incident Management, Information Management, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, IT Service Management (ITSM), Release Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Administration, System Designs

Preferred Skills:

Current Employees apply HERE

Current Contingent Workers apply HERE

Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully 
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company.  No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails. 

Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

Job Posting End Date:

04/8/2026

*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.