Specialist Data Engineer

Job Description

Specialist Data Engineering

The Opportunity:

Based in Hyderabad, joining 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. Lead an organization driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that supports a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. · Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be the leaders who have a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, which will allow 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 the our company 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:

Do you see the bigger picture and how teams collectively deliver on business needs and goals? Are you a perfect mix of creativity, dedication, persistence, people and passion? If so, Senior Data Engineer role is a great career move to advance your communications and change skills while helping to establish a global team’s presence in Hyderabad! Our IT team is transforming the way uses the power of leading-edge science to save and improve lives around the world.

What will you do in this role 

• Collaborates on designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipeline architectures to ingest, process, and deliver high-quality data to business stakeholders.

• Develops and optimizes batch-processing pipelines, ensuring collected data is structured and formatted for immediate, analytical consumption.

• Adheres to and promotes data engineering standards and best practices within the immediate team and across collaborating squads.

• Contributes actively to the execution and technical delivery of data analytics initiatives.

• Acquiring strong technical knowledge of our supported technologies, understanding basic upstream/downstream platform dependencies and cross-functional team workflows.

• Engages with peer platforms and technical communities to stay informed about emerging trends and modern methodologies being adopted within our ecosystem.

• Translate business requirements into technical tasks, building data-driven solutions that directly support stakeholder priorities and business objectives.

• Maintains constructive, collaborative relationships with business stakeholders and product owners to ensure aligned delivery.

• Monitors industry advancements in data engineering to suggest innovative ways of improving pipeline efficiency and value.

• Participates in and supports the "community of practice" by sharing personal project insights and technical documentation.

• Ensures delivered solutions meet defined quality standards, timelines, regulatory compliance guidelines, and user experience requirements.

• Supports innovation initiatives by participating in brainstorming, technical prototyping, and evaluating experimental criteria.

• Applies specialized knowledge within the Commercial data domain.

What Should you have:

• BS Computer Science or related field with 3 – 5 years of working experience with Data Engineering.

• Core Languages: Proficient in SQL and Python for data manipulation, ETL pipeline building, and debugging.

• ETL with IDMC: Practical experience building and monitoring mapping tasks, taskflows, and data integration pipelines within the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform.

• Databricks Developer: Hands-on experience developing within Databricks workspaces using notebooks and Delta Lake tables.

• AWS Cloud Basics: Practical familiarity with core AWS services, specifically S3 data storage, IAM access, and basic service integrations.

• Salesforce Data Awareness: Experience extracting, querying, and staging data from Salesforce/Veeva CRM objects using standard APIs.

• Data Modeling: Solid understanding of relational database structures and dimensional data modeling (Star/Snowflake schemas).

• CI/CD & Git: Experience with version control (Git) workflow processes, including branching, merging, and Pull Requests.

• Agile Execution: Proven ability to work within sprint cycles, estimate tasks, and deliver tested code on time.

 

Primary Skills:

SQL, Python, ETL, IDMC, AWS, Data warehousing, Databricks, Data modeling, and CI/CD

Secondary Skills:

Communication Skills

Who we are

We are known as well-known org Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and our company everywhere else. For more than a century, 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.

Required Skills:

Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD, Databricks Platform, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing (DW), Extract Transform Load (ETL), Informatica Cloud, Python (Programming Language), Structured Query Language (SQL)

Preferred Skills:

Communication

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Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company.  No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails. 

Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Job Posting End Date:

09/29/2026

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