Senior Specialist- Software Engineer

Job Description

Senior Specialist- Software 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 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:

As a Sr. Software Engineer specializing in Kinaxis Maestro, your main job is to configure and implement the software to meet specific business needs. This means turning business requirements into clear software specifications while ensuring high quality and timely delivery. You will be key in customizing Kinaxis Maestro to improve supply chain management processes, using your technical skills and working closely with various stakeholders.

Primary Skills:  Kinaxis Maestro/ Rapid Response, supply chain concepts to forecasting, Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Constraint Management, and Production Scheduling.

Secondary Skills: Python java script, Agile, AWS.

What will you do in this role:

• Design, configure and implement Kinaxis Maestro based on business requirements, translating needs into detailed software specifications that meet user stories and deadlines.
• Join supply chain planning design sessions focused on demand/supply planning and order scheduling to shape solution requirements.
• Lead data integration and transformation efforts, manage QA/UAT, and collect user feedback to improve implementations.
• Coordinate with Kinaxis product engineering, professional services, and support to drive product enhancements.
• Run deployment workshops and train/support end users during testing to ensure smooth adoption.

What should you have:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or Supply Chain Management.
• 6+ years of authoring experience in Kinaxis Maestro (formerly Rapid Response).
• 3-5 years of experience in software implementations or deployments within supply chain planning modules, including Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Inventory Management, and Production Planning and Scheduling.
• Proven experience applying supply chain concepts to forecasting, Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Constraint Management, and Production Scheduling.
• Proficiency in Python and JavaScript, with a focus on using these languages for data integration and orchestration to optimize workflows and enhance data processing efficiency.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and release management techniques.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Solid understanding of data modeling and data architecture principles.

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 , 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:

Agile Application Development, Agile Methodology, Computer Science, Data Integration, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Industrial Engineering, Inventory Management, Kinaxis, Kinaxis Demand Planning, Materials Requirements Planning (MRP), Release Management, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Implementations, Solution Architecture, Supply Change Management, Supply Management, System Designs, System Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

05/15/2026

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