Job Description

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Senior Manager – Data and Analytics Architect

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 Centre's 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

We are seeking a highly motivated and hands-on Data & Analytics Architect to join our Strategy & Architecture team within CDNA. This mid-level role will play a critical part in designing scalable, reusable, and secure data and analytics solutions across the enterprise. You will work under the guidance of a senior architect and be directly involved in the implementation of architectural patterns, reference solutions, and technical best practices.

This is a highly technical role, ideal for someone who enjoys problem-solving, building frameworks, and working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

What Will You Do In This Role

Partner with senior architects to define and implement modern data architecture patterns and reusable frameworks.
Design and develop reference implementations for ingestion, transformation, governance, and analytics using tools such as Databricks (must-have), Informatica, AWS Glue, S3, Redshift, and DBT.
Contribute to the development of a consistent and governed semantic layer, ensuring alignment in business logic, definitions, and metrics across the enterprise.
Work closely with product line teams to ensure architectural compliance, scalability, and interoperability.
Build and optimize batch and real-time data pipelines, applying best practices in data modeling, transformation, and metadata management.
Contribute to architecture governance processes, participate in design reviews, and document architectural decisions.
Support mentoring of junior engineers and help foster a strong technical culture within the India-based team.

What Should You Have

Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
5–8 years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or analytics solution delivery.
Proven hands-on experience with Databricks (must), Informatica, AWS data ecosystem (S3, Glue, Redshift, etc.), and DBT.
Solid understanding of semantic layer design, including canonical data models and standardized metric logic for enterprise reporting and analytics.
Proficient in SQL, Python, or Scala.
Strong grasp of data modeling techniques (relational, dimensional, NoSQL), ETL/ELT design, and streaming data frameworks.
Knowledge of data governance, data security, lineage, and compliance best practices.
Strong collaboration and communication skills across global and distributed teams.
Experience with Dataiku or similar data science/analytics platforms is a plus.
Exposure to AI/ML and GenAI use cases is advantageous.
Background in pharmaceutical, healthcare, or life sciences industries is preferred.
Familiarity with API design, data services, and event-driven architecture is beneficial.

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 for life, 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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Employee Status

Regular

Relocation

VISA Sponsorship

Travel Requirements

Flexible Work Arrangements

Hybrid

Shift

Valid Driving License

Hazardous Material(s)

Required Skills

Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA), Business Process Modeling, Data Modeling, Emerging Technologies, Requirements Management, Solution Architecture, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs

Preferred Skills

Job Posting End Date

09/26/2025

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Requisition ID R341138

Senior Manager, Data and Analytics Architect