Specialist, Asset Reliability Technical Analyst

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 companys’ 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’re seeking an Asset Reliability Technical Analyst to help turn industrial historian and asset data into actionable reliability insights—while supporting Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) data migration and new site onboarding. In this role, you will contextualize and govern equipment data (Aveva (formerly: OSIsoft including PI/AF), partner with operations and maintenance teams to define high-value use cases, and enable advanced diagnostics and analytics through well-modeled, analysis-ready data. You’ll support EAM migration activities (mapping, cleansing, validation, cutover runbooks, and reconciliation), coordinate onboarding readiness and deployment stabilization, and help ensure interoperability between historian and EAM/maintenance systems via APIs and standard interfaces. The ideal candidate brings experience in manufacturing or utilities reliability/maintenance and industrial data, strong analytical and cross-functional communication skills, and comfort working within structured delivery and change-control processes; EAM platform and migration experience is a plus.

Role overview:

The Asset Reliability Technical Analyst helps define, contextualize, and support the governance of asset and historian data to enable analytics, diagnostics, and actionable insights that optimize total cost of ownership (TCO) for equipment assets across production shop floor and building utilities. This role may support the technical delivery of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) data migration validation and new site onboarding, ensuring data quality, interoperability between systems (e.g., historian and maintenance/EAM platforms), and adoption of standard ways of working. The position partners closely with regional or site stakeholders, asset management teams, and product owners to improve maintenance effectiveness, reliability, uptime, and cost performance.

 

What will you do in this role:

· Historian & asset data contextualization: define tag standards, asset hierarchy, metadata, and templates (Aveva (formerly: OSIsoft) and PI/AF) so data is analysis-ready and consistently modelled across sites.

· Use-case intake & translation: partner with operations/maintenance SMEs to define problems, success metrics, and data requirements that drive measurable reliability and cost outcomes.

· Supports EAM data migration technical lead: own mapping, transformation rules, cleansing, validation controls, cutover/runbook, and post-load reconciliation for asset master and related maintenance data.

· Supports Site onboarding technical lead: run site discovery and readiness, confirm prerequisite data/integration needs, coordinate deployment activities, and provide hyper care through stabilization.

· Supports Integration & interoperability: design and support data exchange between historian and EAM/maintenance platforms (APIs/standard interfaces); monitor, troubleshoot, and remediate data flow and data quality issues.

· Analytics enablement: Set up and support sandbox environments for rapid diagnostics, advanced analytics, and model development, including templates for reusability. Understand and develop actionable recommendations to boost up time and reduce TCO.

· Delivery execution: contribute to requirements, solution design, test planning/validation, and change control to move capabilities from build to stable operations.

· Release & partner coordination: align technical changes with product owners, vendors, and partners; manage handoffs and production support expectations.

· Ways of working: author and maintain SOPs/work instructions and support site adoption of standards.

· Continuous improvement: identify process and data quality improvements that increase reliability program effectiveness and reduce recurring support effort.

Qualifications

· One or two years’ experience supporting asset reliability/maintenance, operations, or industrial data/analytics in manufacturing and/or utilities environments.

· Working knowledge of system integration concepts (APIs, interfaces, data quality checks) across OT/IT applications.

· Comfort operating within governed delivery processes (documentation, testing discipline, change control) in a regulated or high-availability environment.

· Strong analytical skills, including statistics and the ability to translate data into operational insights and recommendations.

· Strong cross-functional communication skills with ability to align stakeholders and drive technical decisions to closure.

What Should you have :

· Hands-on experience with Aveva (formerly: OSIsoft) PI System and PI AF, including data modeling and contextualization.

· Direct experience with EAM platforms (e.g., SAP PM, IBM Maximo, Infor EAM, Hexagon) and associated asset master data concepts.

· Experience with common migration tooling/practices (ETL concepts, data profiling, reconciliation methods) for enterprise master data.

· Experience building advanced analytics solutions, including machine learning, and operationalizing models in an industrial context.

· Experience establishing data/asset standards and governance that scale across multiple plants/sites.

· Experience in Windows Server management

· Knowledge of AWS best practices for data engineering and pipeline management

· Familiarity with reliability engineering practices (Reliability Centered Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance/Condition-Based Maintenance, failure modes, criticality, bad actor analysis).

· CMRP is nice to have.

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:

AVEVA PI System, Continuous Process Improvement, Cross-Functional Communications, Data Quality, Defining Problems, Deployment Management, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft Server Operating Systems, Microsoft Server Support, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Windows Server Platform, Migration Software, OSIsoft PI Historian, OSIsoft PI System, Predictive Maintenance, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Structured Query Language (SQL), System Integration, Technical Delivery, Total Cost of Ownership Analysis

Preferred Skills:

ASP.NET C#, DevOps, GMP Compliance, Hexagon Enterprise Asset Management, IBM Maximo, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio C#

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Job Posting End Date:

06/1/2026

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