Manager, Data Scientist

Job Description

Manager, Data Scientist

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 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 Senior Data Scientist to join our Enterprise IT Advanced Analytics team in our company. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on initiatives that support our Finance, Procurement, Human Resources, and related business partners. If you have a strong background in machine learning, data science, and optionally large language models, and are passionate about leveraging technology to drive business success, we would love to hear from you.

What will you do in this role

• Understand the needs of the business and translate those needs into technical/DS/ML language.
• Assess the applicability and develop machine learning and data science solutions to given problems with a focus on AI/ML methods, including large language models.
• Leverage software engineering methods, including coding, testing, and documentation.
• Apply data engineering and data modeling skills as needed to deliver the AI/ML solutions.
• Use visual analytics techniques during the data and business exploration and model building, and, if needed, as a part of the client-facing solution.
• Define, document, and execute small projects or sub-projects, managing risks and stakeholder involvement. Manage junior staff as a part of the delivery.
• Within a project delivery, manage stakeholder relationships, including problem resolution and feedback collection.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver more complex IT or business solutions

What should you have

• 3+ years’ experience as a Data Scientist

Required

• Advanced knowledge of statistical modelling and machine learning, in particular regression, classification and forecasting models
• Proficiency in R and/or Python, git
• Experience in software development and data engineering with a focus on ML solution build and deployment
• Ability to apply data engineering and data modelling on a level supporting DS delivery
• Ability to apply visual analytics techniques and tools on a level supporting DS delivery
• Experience in project management, including risk management and stakeholder management
• Working proficiency in English language

Preferred

• Knowledge of large language models (prompt engineering, RAG, agents...), not limited to GPT
• Knowledge of mathematical optimization techniques
• Advanced MLOps skills – DS/AI/ML solution build, deployment, monitoring
• Experience in one or multiple of the supported business functions and types of data (structured and unstructured) existing across those functions
• Knowledge of cloud services, in particular AWS stack
• Knowledge of data science platforms: Dataiku, Databricks
• Experience in a similar role in a global, research-oriented pharmaceutical company
• Proven track record of implementing machine learning and data science solutions
• Experience in managing stakeholder relationships
• Demonstrated experience in software development and data engineering
• Proven experience in project management

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

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Hybrid

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Required Skills:

Business Intelligence (BI), Database Design, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, Data Science, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Software Development, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Waterfall Model

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Job Posting End Date:

04/21/2025

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