Manager , Software Engineering

 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 

Are you passionate about leading a team of talented engineers to create innovative solutions? Our company is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to provide technical leadership and drive the next generation of automation capabilities. Leading the teams in Full Stack and Gen AI development. 

What will you do in this role: 

• Provide technical leadership to teams through guidance and mentorship. 

• Help create solutions that apply the defined standard of engineering to deliver state-of-the-art automation. 

• Provide direction for the team and empower innovation to drive the next generation of automation capabilities. 

• Collaborate with others in driving delivery of automations, applications, and reusability within the organization. 

• Foster engagement, retention, and employee growth within the team. 

• Work with Tech Leads to provide thought leadership, oversight, and direction for the technical solution design. 

• Ensure maximization of reuse by assessing all development for reusability. 

• Ensure engineers maintain compliance with coding standards and quality expectations. 

• Provide thought leadership in test-driven development and quality assurance approaches. 

• Lead a team of Full Stack engineers. 

• Inspire the team and maintain a high level of engagement. 

• Manage employees, ensuring a collaborative and effective working environment. 

• Collaborate with Tech Leads, scrum masters, Business Analysts to drive correct technical solutions and leadership. 

What should you have: 

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in computer science. 

• At least 8 years of experience in roles of increasing responsibility beginning with code-level engineer roles and culminating in a supervisor position. 

• 5+ years of track record in delivering effective engineering solutions in a complex, international company with experience in leading team. 

• Experience with technical oversight of a team of at least 5 engineers. 

• Extensive use of agile product development methodologies and DevOps tools. 

Primary skills (must-have)  

• Proficient in full stack (C#, Java, Python, React), SQL, CI/CD tools and practices, APIs, data and Cloud. 

• Support deployment and operationalization of solutions using cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure. 

• Understands and engaged in cloud computing, infrastructure as code, cloud-native principles & microservices design. 

• Problem solver able to map the best technology available to the business needs in an elegant comprehensive solution design. 

• Effective communicator able to gain alignment, ensure clarity, and explain complex principles. 

• Proficient manager of engineering squads. 

• Capable technical mentor and career guide. 

Secondary skills (nice to have)  

• Experience leveraging the AI tools like Copilot, Claude etc. for development. 

• Experience in building Gen AI, Agentic AI solutions. 

 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.