Senior Specialist, Technology Risk 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

The Business Information Risk Officer (BIRO) supports the alignment of cybersecurity, risk management, and compliance activities with Our Company Animal Health business objectives. This role partners closely with Our Company Animal Health business and technology teams, enterprise stakeholders, and the Information Technology Risk Management & Security (ITRMS) organization to identify and advise on information security and compliance risks across business technologies.

The position acts as a trusted subject‑matter expert, translating technical and security risk into clear business context and supporting the implementation of practical, risk‑based controls that enable safe, compliant business operations and innovation within the Our Company Animal Health division.

This role focuses on risk identification, business technology risk advisory services, and contribution to enterprise and Our Company Animal Health divisional risk governance.

What will you do in this role:

Business Partnership & Advisory

• Serve as a primary business technology risk advisor to Our Company Animal Health teams on assigned programs, products, and technology areas.
• Translate enterprise security and risk management policies into practical, business‑aligned implementation guidance for Our Company Animal Health.
• Support exception and deviation discussions by providing risk context, impact analysis, and recommended compensating controls.
• Participate in Our Company Animal Health business planning forums, product roadmaps, and program governance activities to ensure security and risk considerations are incorporated early (“shift left”).
• Provide clear, actionable guidance to business and technology stakeholders on embedding security and privacy considerations into projects, digital initiatives, and operational processes.
• Prepare and present risk observations, themes, and mitigation recommendations to business and IT stakeholders; escalate material risks to ITRMS or divisional leadership as appropriate.

Risk Identification & Governance Contribution

• Identify information security, technology, and compliance risks through ongoing engagement with Our Company Animal Health business and technology teams.
• Contribute identified risks, observations, and supporting business context to enterprise risk governance processes, including risk forums and reviews.
• Partner with centralized risk assessment and governance teams by providing environmental insight, architecture context, and implementation considerations.
• Support risk acceptance, remediation, and escalation discussions by supplying clear, business‑aligned risk narratives and recommendations.
• Assist with tracking risk themes and trends within the division to inform governance and reporting activities.

Technical Risk Management & Cybersecurity

• Work closely with Enterprise and Our Company Animal Health Value Teams, and solution owners to review system architectures, designs, and operational controls for applications, platforms, and cloud environments.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen cyber resilience (e.g., prevention, detection, response, recovery) and support the adoption of appropriate security controls.
• Support incident response activities involving Our Company Animal Health systems, including coordination with the Cyber Fusion Center and participation in root‑cause and lessons‑learned discussions.
• Provide risk‑based input related to emerging technologies and architectural changes impacting the Animal Health division.

  

Program Execution & Standards

• Support the development, adoption, and operationalization of enterprise security standards, policies, and guidelines as they apply to Our Company Animal Health.
• Participate in assurance activities such as control reviews, audits, and compliance assessments by providing business and technology context and supporting remediation efforts.
• Stay informed of emerging technologies (e.g., AI, cloud services), evolving cyber threats, and regulatory changes relevant to Animal Health; evaluate potential impacts and escalate concerns as needed.

Stakeholder Engagement & Awareness

• Collaborate with risk, technology, and business stakeholders to promote a risk‑aware culture and practical security behaviors within Our Company Animal Health.
• Contribute to targeted security awareness and training initiatives tailored to divisional roles, processes, and technologies.
• Act as a subject‑matter expert representing business technology risk in cross‑functional working groups and project teams.

What should you have:

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, cybersecurity, computer science, business administration, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Relevant security or risk certifications (CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, GSEC) are preferred but not required.

Experience

• Experience in cybersecurity, IT risk management, IT compliance, IT audit, or related disciplines.
• Experience advising technical and business stakeholders on security risks, control considerations, and mitigation approaches.
• Practical experience with cloud, application, or operational technology security is highly desirable.
• Experience supporting regulated industries such as life sciences, healthcare, or manufacturing is preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong understanding of cybersecurity risks, controls, threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigation strategies across enterprise technologies.
• Ability to translate technical risk into clear, business‑relevant impact and recommendations.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with a focus on pragmatic, risk‑based outcomes.
• Effective stakeholder management and communication skills; able to influence without formal authority.
• Comfortable working independently and collaboratively in a matrixed, fast‑paced environment.
• High emotional intelligence and a collaborative, advisory mindset.

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:

Business Administration, Cyber Resilience, Cybersecurity Risk Management, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Identifying Risks, Information Security, Information Technology (IT) Risk Management, Information Technology Auditing, IT Compliance Management, IT Risk Assessments, IT Risk Governance, IT Risk Response and Reporting, Knowledge of regulations and frameworks, Product Roadmap, Security Risk Analysis, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Technical Advice, Technology Risk

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

05/19/2026

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