Senior Specialist, Software Engineering

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 are seeking a highly skilled Senior Full‑Stack Engineer with Data Science expertise to join our team. This senior individual will design, build, and operate end‑to‑end production systems spanning web front ends, backend services, APIs, CI/CD, IaC, AI/ML pipelines. The role requires deep experience across cloud platforms, data processing and orchestration, scalable storage and access controls, managed analytics platforms. You will collaborate across product teams and platform teams to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable systems that accelerate data‑driven product outcomes.

What will you do in this role

• Drive secure software delivery by embedding automated security controls (SonarQube, Wiz) and vulnerability scanning throughout the CI/CD pipeline.
• Architect and operate scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions on AWS.
• Design and build production-grade data and feature pipelines (e.g., Databricks, ETL) with a focus on quality, monitoring, and scalability.
• Evaluate, prototype, and integrate new tools and frameworks to enhance team capabilities and technical infrastructure.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product and stakeholders, and mentor junior engineers to foster team growth.

What should you have

• Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering with infrastructure-as-code
• Expert-level proficiency in AWS services, Strong experience with AWS data services such as Glue (ETL), Redshift
• Proficiency with tools like Terraform , Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions for building, testing, and deploying code
• Mastery of Git and GitHub, including branching strategies and code review processes.
• Experience with security tools(SonarQube, Wiz) integrated into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Familiarity with cloud provider networking services and best practices (e.g., AWS Transit Gateway, Azure Virtual WAN, Google Cloud VPC + Shared VPC)
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation and operational tasks
• Understanding of identity and access management concepts and experience implementing IAM at scale in cloud environments
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms and how to integrate them into automated workflows
• Knowledge of regulatory, compliance and governance considerations for highly regulated industries (GxP, HIPAA, GDPR) is a plus
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication and collaboration skills; experience working with cross-functional global teams

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:

Access Management, Access Management, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Application Management, AWS Transit Gateway, Business Compliance, Business Process Automation, Change Catalyst, Cloud Networking, Collaborative Communications, Computer Science, Creativity, Customer Service, Data Engineering, Data Integration, Data Visualization, DevOps Toolchain, Global Team Collaboration, Infrastructure Engineering, IT Infrastructure Management, Laboratory Automation, Morale Building, Public Clouds, Server Hardware Configuration, Software Development {+ 1 more}

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

05/21/2026

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