Job Description
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.
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.
The Associate Director leads the Enterprise Architecture AI/ML and automation function, driving strategy, execution, and delivery of scalable, business-critical solutions. This role provides strong technical and people leadership, overseeing complex initiatives while ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and standards. The individual is responsible for building and mentoring high-performing teams, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and collaboration. They partner closely with senior stakeholders to translate business strategy into impactful technology outcomes, ensuring high quality, compliance, and continuous improvement across all deliverables.
What will you do in this role
Design, build, and maintain tools, content, and capabilities for the Enterprise Architecture organization
Develop complex technical architectures for automation solutions, ensuring designs are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with business and enterprise technology standards
Organize and coordinate a team of engineers providing clear direction, prioritization, and coordination to ensure successful delivery with high-quality standards, timeliness, compliance, and excellent user experience
Primary Skills: Python programming, AI, SDLC, Agile, Automation
Bachelor's or master's degree in information technology, Computer Science or related field.
12+ years SDLC experience, with Python programming and Leadership.
Strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, with the ability to influence and motivate others; excellent emotional intelligence, decision-making skills, and a strong sense of ownership and accountability; networking and partnerships should be a key strength
Proven experience leading technical teams in an automation or engineering environment, with a demonstrated ability to guide, mentor, and coordinate cross-functional engineers to deliver high-quality solutions on time.
Experience with successful delivery of engineering projects from concept through implementation, with a track record of managing scope, timelines, resources, and stakeholders to achieve business and technical objectives.
Solid experience designing, implementing, and scaling solutions with data pipelines, databases, APIs, and modern engineering tooling spanning on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments
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.
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 , 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.
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:
Emerging Technologies, Methods and Tools, Requirements Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Strategic Planning, System Designs, Technical Advice
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Regular
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Job Posting End Date:
06/11/2026
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Requisition ID:R392470
