Specialist, Software Engineering

Job Description

R415751 Specialist, 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 companys’ 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:

Software developer with a degree in computer science/engineering or related field
* with experience in developing data platforms with advanced business intelligence, analytics features. 
* with proven ability in designing robust, scalable microservice architecture-based applications focused on [ideally scientific] data analysis and management workflows
* with strong, firsthand technical expertise in implementing scalable, robust, AWS cloud hosted/cloud native client-server applications
* with technical expertise in integrating algorithms, scientific workflows, machine learning tools developed by computational and/or quantitative data scientists 
* with experience in API (REST, GraphQL) driven modular development and the integration of in-house developed and 3rd party vendor platforms   
* with expertise in developing, scheduling and executing resource intensive jobs on a high-performance compute environment (local data center or cloud)
* who is familiar with standard software development and DevOPs practices 
* who is able to function, communicate and collaborate effectively in a highly multi-disciplinary environment

Required Skills
* 3+ years’ experience backend, middle-layer development using Python or Java/Spring framework
* 3+ years with AWS services (EC2/RDS/S3/Batch)
* 2+ years’ experience implementing data analysis and processing (ETL) workflows (using Python, Java/Spring, or equivalent ETL framerwork)
* 3+ years’ experience implementing, optimizing, normalizing data models/schemas using relational (POstgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL) and non-relational database vendors (Elastic Search, etc..)

Would be nice skills  

Secondary skills:
* 3+ years’ experience of web/frontend development using JavaScript, HTML, CSS/Sass, React JS (or equivalent, such as Angular 4+)
* familiarity with DevOPs practices Jenkins, Docker, Solar, Stash, JIRA, Confluence

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.

Required Skills:

AngularJS, AngularJS, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA, Availability Management, Back-End Development, Change Controls, Developer Tools, Docker Container, Incident Management, IT Methodologies, JavaScript, Jenkins (Software), Management System Development, Microservices Architecture, MySQL, Problem Management, Python (Programming Language), Quality Assurance (QA), Scalable Architectures, Service Delivery, SLA Management, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) {+ 4 more}

Preferred Skills:

Python Software Development

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Employee Status:

Regular

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Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

09/17/2026

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