Senior Specialist, Technical Project Management

Job Description

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

We are seeking a highly motivated Scrum Master with experience leading cross-functional data and analytics teams to support back-office functions (e.g., Finance, HR, Procurement, Compliance). In this role, you’ll facilitate agile delivery across a broad range of initiatives including data platform enhancements, dashboard development, automation, and data product delivery.

The ideal candidate combines agile expertise with strong communication skills and a foundational understanding of data life cycles, analytics tooling, and enterprise project delivery.

What will you do in this role

• Serve as Scrum Master atleast for 2–3 Agile teams focused on delivering data and analytics solutions
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and reviews
• Collaborate with Product Owners to groom and maintain a well-defined backlog aligned to business priorities
• Remove blockers and support teams in achieving sprint goals and continuous improvement
• Coordinate across stakeholders in IT, Finance, HR, and other back-office domains
• Track team metrics (velocity, burn-down, etc.) and report progress to leadership
• Foster a culture of accountability, agility, and transparency
• Ensure alignment to Agile best practices, scaling frameworks (e.g., SAFe), and delivery standards
• Support onboarding of new team members and promote team engagement

What should you have

• Primary Skill- Agile(Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally), Agile-at-scale frameworks (SAFe, LeSS,Lean Scrum)
• Secondary Skill- CSM, PSM, or equivalent, CI/CD, data pipelines, BI dashboards, data governance, reporting
• Total 10+ years of experience, including 8+ years as a Scrum Master in a technology or data environment
• Hands-on experience with Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally)
• Strong facilitation, communication, and servant leadership skills
• Exposure to data projects (e.g., data pipelines, BI dashboards, data governance, reporting)
• Comfortable working with cross-functional teams across IT and business units
• Scrum Master Certification (CSM, PSM, or equivalent)
• Product management experience or demonstrated close partnership with Product Managers (backlog prioritization, discovery, road mapping).
• Technical project management experience managing complex technical programs, integrations, cloud data platforms, CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Agile-at-scale frameworks (SAFe, LeSS,Lean Scrum)

Preferred

• Experience in large enterprise settings or highly regulated industries (e.g., pharma, finance)
• Understanding of back-office operations (e.g., finance reporting cycles, HR metrics)
• Familiarity with data tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake, or Databricks
• Experience with technical fluency with strong product and delivery instincts and who can operate comfortably with senior stakeholders.
• Experience as Agile coach, running and managing Scrum chapter.

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 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, Animal Vaccination, Change Agility, Data Governance, Digital Technology, Digital Transformation, Facilitation, Information Technology Operations, Measurement Analysis, Portfolio, Programme, and Project Support, Procurement, Program Management, Risk Management, Sprint Planning, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Technical Program Management, Technical Projects, Waterfall Model

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Job Posting End Date:

05/26/2026

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