Senior Specialist, DnA Data Engineer

Job Description

Senior Specialist, DnA Data Engineer

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

For the Senior Data Engineer role, we are looking for professional with experience in designing, developing, and maintaining data pipelines. We intend to make data reliable, governed, secure and available for analytics within the organization. As part of a team this role will be responsible for data management with a broad range of activities like data ingestion to cloud data lakes and warehouses, quality control, metadata management and orchestration of machine learning models. We are also forward looking and plan to bring innovations like data mesh and data fabric into our ecosystem of tools and processes. 

What will you do in this role: 

• Design, develop and maintain data pipelines to extract data from a variety of sources and populate data lake and data warehouse. 

• Develop the various data transformation rules and data modeling capabilities. 

• Collaborate with Data Analyst, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers to identify and transform data for ingestion, exploration, and modeling. 

• Work with data governance team and implement data quality checks and maintain data catalogs. 

• Use Orchestration, logging, and monitoring tools to build resilient pipelines. 

• Use test driven development methodology when building ELT/ETL pipelines. 

• Develop pipelines to ingest data into cloud data warehouses. 

• Analyze data using SQL. 

• Use serverless AWS services like Glue, Lambda, Step Functions 

• Use Terraform Code to deploy on AWS. 

• Containerize Python code using Docker. 

• Use Git for version control and understand various branching strategies. 

• Build pipelines to work with large datasets using PySpark 

• Develop proof of concepts using Jupyter Notebooks 

• Work as part of an agile team. 

• Create technical documentation as needed. 

What Should you have: 

• 8+ years of relevant experience 

• Good experience with AWS services like S3, ECS, Fargate, Glue, 

• Any AWS developer or architect certification 

• Agile development methodology 

• Step Functions, CloudWatch, Lambda, EMR 

• SQL 

• Proficient in Python, PySpark 

• Good with Git, Docker, Terraform 

• Ability to work in cross functional teams 

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field such as Engineering (preferably computer engineers.), Computer Science.

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:

Accountability, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Business Intelligence (BI), Database Administration, Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Data Warehouse Development, Design Applications, Information Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Designs

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

04/13/2026

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