Senior Specialist, DBA 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

This role is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining clinical and health economic data systems, ensuring high-quality data integration, validation, reporting, and compliance across study and enterprise platforms.

The position partners with business stakeholders, IT teams, and external vendors to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions, automate processes, and deliver actionable insights through advanced analytics and reporting.

The role also drives continuous improvement, supports governance and release management activities, ensures audit readiness, and mentors team members to enable efficient, high-quality delivery.

What you would do:

• Build, integrate, and maintain clinical databases and study systems, including transformations, edit checks, reporting, and user testing, while supporting governance of cross‑study programming environments.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain Health Economic Modeling systems using programming and automation frameworks.
• Implement and validate complex data logic such as logical, derivations, and dynamic rules.
• Propose and develop tools to streamline design, build, and validation workflows.
• Apply data literacy to convert collected data into actionable insights.
• Develop advanced reporting solutions, including dashboards and visual analytics, using enterprise platforms.
• Configure, test, and validate data sources for integrations and transformations across systems.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical and system requirements.
• Coordinates with external vendors, Information Technology (IT), and the other supporting functions to validate external data transfers into our company's data management system in accordance with detailed transfer specifications
• Troubleshoot routine data ingestion and consumption issues, escalating non‑standard problems appropriately.
• Develop robust data models, semantic layers, and curated datasets while monitoring pipelines and enforcing quality checks.
• Validate system functionality and ensure adherence to SOPs, regulations, and compliance standards.
• Identify process gaps and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Maintain audit‑ready documentation for changes, incidents, and system updates.
• Mentor junior colleagues and contribute to onboarding and knowledge sharing.
• Support release management activities, including change control and risk assessment.
• Lead UAT activities, translate requirements into technical specifications, and refine reporting standards.
• Communicate data and technical findings clearly and partner across teams to enable coordinated, high‑quality delivery.

What you should have :

Education

• B.A. or B.S. degree from Computer Science or Information Systems, healthcare‑related disciplines, or those with relevant skills and experience may also be considered.

Minimum of 7 years’ experience working in database configuring, data engineering or data management operations, and 1+ years of specific experience in Health Economic Modeling and upstream/downstream clinical data model configuring

Knowledge and Skills:

• At least 5 years’ experience in data management, medical research, or database design and development. In-life data management experience is required.
• An overall working knowledge of the clinical development process.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages (SQL, Python, SAS, R) for implementing data collectors, integrations, transformations, and reporting.
• Knowledge of database structures and available tools to manage, extract, and report data is preferred.
• Exceptional communication skills (oral and written) with the ability to communicate with both the technical and business areas and external vendors.
• Exceptional organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with different functional areas.
• Ability to multi-task, work independently under pressure, and adapt to changing environments.
• Strong sense of urgency and customer focus.
• Desire and ability to learn new processes and technologies.
• Knowledge of SDLC and validation practices, including change control, release checklists, and traceability.
• Understanding of GCP, data integrity, audit‑ready documentation, and UAT/sign‑off procedures.
• Understanding of drug discovery process, FDA regulations, GxP guidelines, ICH guidelines, clinical database cleaning process, and 21 CFR Part 11.

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 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:

Audit Trails, Audit Trails, Business Needs, Business Requirements Analysis, Change Management, Commercial Software, Competency Management, Computer Programming, Customer Centricity, Customer-Focused, Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Information Systems, Information Technology (IT), Knowledge Sharing, Management Support, Multitasking, Policy Compliance, Release Management, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture {+ 5 more}

Preferred Skills:

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