Specialist, Technical Project Management

 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 

Decommission, Retire and Archive Center of Excellence (DRACOE) is the process and data governance organization for applications that are exiting or reducing data footprint in the production landscape. We provide global governance and archiving services across all divisions and geographies. The Active Data Management service focuses on helping Product Owners design and implement solutions for extracting data from production systems, storing it in near-line storage, and enabling reporting and access to that extracted data in a controlled and compliant manner. 

As a Data Architect, your primary responsibility will be to guide Product Owners, project teams, and technical stakeholders through the architecture, design, and implementation approach for active data management solutions. Your responsibilities include evaluating data extraction patterns, defining optimal storage strategies, aligning reporting needs, and addressing integration considerations while ensuring compliance with DRACOE standards, governance policies, security controls, and records retention requirements. 

What will you do in this role: 

• Collaborate with Product Owners, application teams, engineering teams, and DRACOE stakeholders to define and deliver active data management solutions. 

• Design and implement strategies for archiving infrequently accessed data, ensuring effective data lifecycle management. 

• Establish and enforce data retention, archival, and disposal policies in alignment with organizational and regulatory requirements. 

• Contribute to solution design discussions, providing guidance on end-to-end data flow, architecture, storage, and reporting frameworks. 

• Act as a representative of DRACOE in both technical and business discussions related to data extraction and active data management. 

• Develop in-depth expertise in DRACOE’s Active Data Management processes, standards, and service offerings. 

• Analyse source system data structures and define extraction, transformation, and integration strategies to support downstream reporting and analytics. 

• Optimize storage utilization and costs through tiered storage strategies and intelligent data lifecycle management. 

• Enable the creation of compliant, searchable, and reportable datasets that retain their usability post-archival from production systems. 

• Establish governance frameworks and guardrails to enable secure and compliant self-service data access. 

• Drive automation of data pipelines and monitoring processes to enhance scalability, resilience, and platform performance. 

 What should you have 

• Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.  

• 3+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, data integration, or related technical roles.  

• 3+ years of experience working with enterprise data platforms, data flows, or large-scale data sets. Experienced in software/data engineering practices (including versioning, release management, deployment of datasets, agile & related software tools).  

• Strong working knowledge of at least one large-scale data processing technology (e.g., High-performance computing, distributed computing), databases, and underlying technology (cloud or on-prem environments, containerization, distributed storage & databases)  

• Experience supporting data extraction, transformation, storage, or reporting initiatives. 

• Understanding of data governance, security, and compliance considerations in enterprise environments.  

• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.  

• Ability to work effectively in a matrixed environment and collaborate across multiple stakeholder groups. 

Preferred Competencies 

• Proficiency in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or other cloud platforms.  

• Experience with enterprise architecture or solution design documentation.  

• Experience with near-line storage, archive or data lifecycle management solutions.  

• Experience with reporting tools, analytics platforms, or data access layers.  

• Exposure to regulated industries, preferably biopharmaceutical or healthcare.  

• Familiarity with data catalog or metadata tools such as Collibra, Alation, or similar.  

• Familiarity with Agile delivery methods such as Scrum or Kanban.  

• 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 

 Required skills: 

• Enterprise Architecture, Active Data Management, Data Engineering, Data Governance, Data Orchestration, Data Integration, Metadata Management, Data Visualization, Cloud Data Platforms, Database Administration, Information Management, Security & Compliance, Software Development Life Cycle 

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.