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Job DescriptionAssociate Director, Systems Integration – Solutions Technical LeadBased 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 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 serve our company purpose to save and improve lives. An integral part of 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 in our global organization that partners across the entire company. 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 OverviewAs the Associate Director in Systems Integration,you will be driven by a passion for engineeringAPI-first integration solutions that create a meaningful impact. In this pivotal role, you will oversee the entire integration and associated project lifecycle, ensuring that the solutions meet the highest standards of reliability, quality and efficiency. You will also support federated teams in other parts of the organization through onboarding, with knowledge and expertise required for them to be fully productive.What will you do in this role:Guide a team of integration customer enablement engineers, overseeing the technical design and implementation of solutions including testing, verification, documentation.Lead the design of integration solutions, in close collaboration with architects, platform teams, and delivery leads, ensuring efficient use of the resources, meeting timelines, project goals and strategic objectives.Foster a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing by engaging cross-functional teams and leaders across the organization. Building strong communities of practice to break down silos, align on shared goals, and drive cohesion in designing and implementing larger software systems.Provide technical leadership to more junior engineering teams across integration lifecycle, providing hands-on support when needed, and ensuring adherence to API-first, modern integration design methodologies and architectural principles.Drive the adoption of Automation and DevOps practices in everything we produce, to optimize scalability, performance, and delivery efficiency.Leverage cloud and tools like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure provisioning deployment, testing, monitoring, assuring seamless integration and continuous delivery across environments.Serve as the technical expert, supporting the configuration of systems components and equipment for effective systems testing, and assuring thorough validation of functionalities.What Should you have:Minimum 7-10 years of experience inbackend or integration engineering, programming/software development, IT infrastructure.Graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.Proven hands-on experience in software and integration engineering, inclusive of coding, designing API and integration solutions, and delivering for high-quality andreliability.Proven experience with HTTP, REST, OpenAPI, OAuth, API Security and other API and relevant Integration technologiesCandidates should have professional coding experience in at least one of the modern programming languages.Proficiency in API-first architecture and other Integration concepts.Hands-on experience with at least one API or Integration platforms.Demonstrated experience in leading engineering teams, showcasing strong management and interpersonal skills.Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively interfacing with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.A passion for innovation and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement in platform engineering practices.Ability to collaborate withing global virtual teams and navigate multiple cross-functional teams.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.#HYDIT2025Current Employees apply HERECurrent Contingent Workers apply HERESearch Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully 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: RegularRelocation:VISA Sponsorship:Travel Requirements:Flexible Work Arrangements:HybridShift:Valid Driving License:Hazardous Material(s):Required Skills:Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, TestingPreferred Skills:Job Posting End Date:01/31/2025*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.
