Senior Specialist, Scientific Computing Applications

Job Description

Senior Specialist, Scientific Computing Applications

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 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 Centres.

Role Overview:

As Senior Specialist of Application Support, you will oversee the delivery and management of high-performance computing (HPC) resources and tools in a Linux environment both on-premises and AWS. Your main goal is to help accelerate research by supporting advanced computing applications and workflows. You will work closely with research scientists, HPC experts from the US, Prague, and Singapore, as well as cloud engineers and technical analysts, to develop and maintain HPC applications that drive innovation in drug discovery at our company.

Your responsibilities include implementing and optimizing HPC tools on AWS to improve the experience for research scientists working on compute-intensive projects. You will also install, maintain, and upgrade HPC applications, libraries, and compilers. The ideal candidate has a strong background in HPC applications and cloud-based solutions and is committed to providing excellent support to enable research scientists to achieve impactful results. Success in this role requires both independent initiative and effective teamwork.

What will you do in this role:

Key Responsibilities

· Oversee and manage HPC applications both on-premises and AWS platforms, keeping an updated inventory and creating user-friendly guides to ensure an excellent experience for research scientists.

· Collaborate with data scientists, developers, and IT teams to integrate and support applications like Posit WorkBench and Connect, Jupyter, VS Code, AWS HealthOmics and others.

· Provide Tier3 support for Linux-based applications, including troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues.

· Monitor and manage user support tickets, ensuring timely issue resolution and clear communication with users.

· Administer Environment modules (LMOD) and manage access to HPC tools such as OpenEye, Schrodinger, MATLAB, Mathematica etc.

· Identify and implement process improvements, contributing to best practices in application support.

· Mentor junior team members, assist users with application questions, deliver training, and share practical examples.

· Work within a matrix organization, reporting to both the functional manager and the Hyderabad-based Director, and collaborating with other teams.

· Participate in project planning and execution, ensuring alignment with overall functional and project objectives.

What should you have

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computational Sciences or a closely related discipline. Candidates with degrees in other fields will be considered if they possess substantial and relevant experience.

· Minimum of Eight (8) years of direct experience in application management within complex Linux environments.

· Proven expertise in Linux system administration, AWS services, shell scripting (using Bash, Python, or similar languages), and advanced troubleshooting of application-related issues.

· Demonstrated skill in building and compiling applications from source on Linux platforms, including troubleshooting build dependencies and optimizing performance.

· Experience maintaining environment modules using Lmod, and familiarity with package management tools such as Spack and Easy Build is highly desirable.

· Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly present technical findings and actionable recommendations in proposals and user guides.

· Strong problem-solving mindset and a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating potential risks.

· Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Secondary Skills

· Hands-on experience with the installation, configuration, and maintenance of R, Posit Workbench, Connect, and Package Manager on Linux-based servers.

· Exceptional analytical abilities, with demonstrated skill in interpreting and evaluating complex data sets.

· HPC schedulers, and distributed computing concepts.

· Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments

· Experience with Solutions Development Life Cycle

· Understanding of Computational Chemistry/Biology and Bioinformatics applications

· Understanding of AI/ML/Agentic AI

· Experience with Google Cloud Platform

Primary Skills:

  Linux System Administration

  AWS

  Shell Scripting

  Bash

  Python

  Application Troubleshooting

  Build & Compile from Source (Linux)

Our Technology Team

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:

AWS CloudHSM, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Linux, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills:

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Job Posting End Date:

04/29/2026

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