Specialist, Visualization Development

Job Description

Specialist: Visualization Development

The Opportunity:

Join a global biopharma company with a 130-year legacy and mission to achieve new milestones in healthcare. Be part of a technology-driven, data-led organization supporting a diversified portfolio of medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. Work alongside passionate teams that use data, analytics, and insights to drive decisions and tackle some of the world’s greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers are globally distributed hubs that enable our digital transformation and business outcomes across IT. They bring together diverse teams to collaborate, share best practices, and deliver solutions that save and improve lives.

This role is based at our Hyderabad Tech Center and follows a hybrid working model (3 days onsite, 2 days remote). Candidates are expected to reside within commuting distance of the Hyderabad office.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Data Visualization Developer with strong Power BI experience to design, build, and deploy business-ready dashboards, reports, and semantic data models. The role will partner with business stakeholders, Data Engineering teams, and Agile delivery teams to convert data into clear, actionable insights using scalable and governed reporting solutions.

What will you do in this role 

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain Power BI dashboards, paginated reports, and interactive reporting solutions.
• Create optimized Power BI semantic models, datasets, measures, and report data models to support business KPIs and analytics needs.
• Translate business requirements into intuitive visual designs, reporting layouts, and actionable insights.
• Work with Data Engineering teams to source, validate, and model data from Data Lake, Databricks, and other enterprise data platforms.
• Develop reusable reporting components, templates, and visualization standards to improve consistency and speed of delivery.
• Apply performance tuning, data governance, and security best practices across Power BI reports and models.
• Work in Agile delivery teams, participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos, and iterative solution delivery.

What Should you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in data visualization development, with strong focus on Power BI reporting, data modeling, and dashboard delivery. 
• Strong hands-on experience in Power BI report development, dashboard design, semantic model creation, DAX, Power Query, and data refresh configuration.
• Ability to design, build, test, deploy, and maintain Power BI reports and data models for business users.
• Experience working with database and cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Data Lake, Snowflake, Redshift, Oracle, or similar technologies.
• Ability to write SQL queries to validate, transform, and analyze data for reporting and visualization needs.
• Understanding of data engineering concepts, data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and collaboration with Data Engineering teams.
• Advanced visualization design experience, including executive dashboards, KPI scorecards, drill-through reports, and interactive storytelling.
• Experience working in Agile delivery teams, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos, and iterative delivery.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to work independently in a matrixed environment with minimal direction.

             

Nice to have Skills

• Experience with write-back capability using Inforiver or similar Power BI extensions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate business requirements into clear reporting solutions and actionable visuals.
• Exposure to Pharma, Biotech, or enterprise analytics environments is a plus.

• Power BI, DAX, Power Query, Power BI Service, Power BI semantic models
• Databricks, Data Lake, SQL, enterprise data platforms
• Inforiver write-back capability and advanced visualization tools
• Agile delivery tools and ways of working

Primary Skills:

Power BI, dashboard design, semantic model creation, DAX, Power Query, and data refresh configuration, Databricks, Data Lake, Snowflake, Redshift, Oracle, or similar technologies, SQL

Secondary Skills:

Data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, KPI scorecard

Who we are

We are known as well-known org Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD 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:

Dashboards Design, Data Lake, DAX Language, Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (PBI), Microsoft Power Query, Oracle Database

Preferred Skills:

Data Pipelines, ETL Processing

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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:

09/17/2026

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