Associate Manager, Scientific Data Cloud Engineering

Associate Manager Scientific Data Cloud 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 Centres Role Overview Our Engineering team builds core components used by our Research Labs data analytics visualization and management workflows The analysis tools and pipelines built for data processing by our team in partnership with our scientists aim to accelerate research and the discovery of new therapies for our patients We collect annotate analyze petabytes of scientific data multi-omics chemistry imaging safety used in biomarker research drug safety efficacy drug target discovery and compendium diagnostic development We help our scientists to process analyze scientific data at scale by developing highly parallelized analytical workflows ran on HPC infrastructure on-prem cloud to manage explore and visualize various scientific data modalities by developing bespoke data models bioinformatics ETL processes data retrieval and visualization services using distributed micro-service architecture FAIR data principles SPA type dashboards industry specific regulatory compliant data integrity auditing and security access controls We are a creative and disciplined software engineering team using agile practices and established technology stacks to design and develop large-scale data analytics visualization and management software solutions for local and on-cloud hosted HPC datacenters as well as to integrate 3rd party analytical platforms with internal data workflows to address pressing engineering and data science challenges of life-science We are looking for Software Engineers SE who can break down and solve complex problems with a strong motivation to get things done with a boots-on-the-ground pragmatic mindset Our engineers own their products end to end and influence the way how our products and technology are deployed to facilitate most aspects of drug discovery impacting hundreds of thousands of patients around the world We are looking for engineers who can creatively handle complex dependencies and ambiguous requirements competing business priorities while producing fit-for-purpose optimal solutions We are hoping that you are passionate about collaborating across the interface between hard-core software development and research and discovery data analysis What will you do in this role Design and implement engineering tools applications and solutions that facilitate research processes and scientific discovery in several areas of our drug discovery process Help drive the design and architecture of adopted engineering solutions with a detail-oriented mindset Promote and help with the adoption of development design architecture and DevOps best practices with a particular focus on agile deliver mindset Lead and mentor smaller team of developers squads to ensure timely and quality delivery of multiple product iterations Drive product discovery and requirements clarification for ambiguous and or undefined problems framed with uncertainty Manage technical and business dependencies and bottlenecks balance technical constraints with business requirements and deliver maximum business impact with solid customer experience Help stakeholders with go no-go decisions on software and infrastructure by assessing gaps in existing software solutions internal external by vetting technologies platforms and vendor products Strong collaboration organization skills in cross-functional teams ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences work closely with scientists peers and business leaders in different geographical locations to define and deliver complex engineering features What should you have Education BS or MS in Computer Science Bioinformatics Basic Qualifications MUST Proficient 2 years hands-on experience w at least one language Java preferred Python or C with building CI CD workflows with Jenkins or equivalent with using IaC frameworks CloudFormation Ansible Terraform to build microservice-architecture solutions with a focus on scientific data analysis and management to integrate AWS services EC2 RDS S3 Batch KMS ECS etc into production workflows SHOULD-HAVE proven hands-on experience at least 3 years with these scripting languages Python Bash to build production workflows using Java Python with Linux OS command line to drive API REST GraphQL etc driven modular development of production workflows and integration with 3rd party vendor platforms relational data models ETL processing pipelines using PostgreSQL preferred Oracle SQL Server MySQL Proficient with pipelines-workflow building execution maintenance debugging Airflow Nextflow aws batch SOFT-SKILS MUST Strong collaborator communicator Strong problem-solving skills Experienced with making technical partnerships with research and business teams NICE TO HAVE Prior experience with with non-relational database vendors Elastic Search etc with building resource intensive HPC analysis modules and or data processing tasks with developing and deploying containerized applications i e Docker Singularity with containerization platform Kubernetes Helm with end-to-end testing framework Robot Selenium 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 HYDIT2025 Required Skills Availability Management Capacity Management Change Controls Design Applications High Performance Computing HPC Incident Management Information Management Information Technology IT Infrastructure IT Service Management ITSM Release Management Software Development Software Development Life Cycle SDLC Solution Architecture System Administration System Designs Preferred Skills Current Employees apply Current Contingent Workers apply Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully Merck Co Inc Rahway NJ USA also known as Merck Sharp Dohme LLC Rahway NJ USA does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities All CVs resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole 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