Senior Manager, Software Engineer – SAP MDG

Job Description

Senior Manager, Software Engineer – SAP MDG & Fieldglass

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

We are looking for an energetic, self-starter to join our Enterprise Information Technology team to help us identify and deliver business solutions, in partnership with Global Supplier Management Group and Information Technology colleagues. These critical functions operate at a global scale, supporting our business in over 130 countries.

Software Engineer is a key role within the GSM/WS Value team. This individual will be closely working with technical lead and responsible for configuring, coding and developing new solutions or enhancing existing solutions in Supplier Master Data Management and Governance, Direct and Indirect Procurement, Supplier Performance and Analytics and Supplier Risk areas

What will you do in this role:

• Constructs, amends, and verifies software systems, components, and integrations by writing software programs subject to estimation, measurement, quality processes, appropriate documentation, and continuous improvement processes.
• Enables and maintains software configuration management capability across heterogeneous technology environments, architectures, and platforms.
• Creates, and adapts software configuration applications, and interfaces subject to solution architecture, specifications, and a broad ensemble of requirements.
• Develops and employs software capabilities empowering creation, retrieval, update, and destruction of data subject to given objectives regarding security, compliance, policy, scalability, efficiency, reliability, fidelity, flexibility and portability.
• Validation and testing of integrated systems subject to organizational standards regarding security, reporting, observation, and control. Supports the enablement of processes related to incidents, recovery, and post-mortem activity.
• Develop expertise in Sourcing, Indirect & Direct Procurement, Accounts Payable and Master Data Management, and the core business processes supported.
• Demonstrate strong working knowledge of modern development practices and technology stack on the cloud.
• Demonstrate ability to focus on key priorities and lead and collaborate effectively to deliver on IT commitments.
• Strive to be a valued member of the extended Global Supplier Management partners' teams.

What should you have:

• Bachelors in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.
• Minimum of 9+ years of experience working in large, complex IT development projects
• Strong understanding of Master Data management & governance, Global Sourcing, Procurement, and Accounts Payable processes.
• Proficient level of experience and knowledge of SAP MDG (supplier domain), SAP Fieldglass, SAP Ariba Sourcing and Contract Management, SAP ECC Accounts Payable, SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing, Supplier lifecycle and performance.
• Experience in solution design, development and configuration of SAP MDG, SAP Fieldglass, SAP Ariba Buying & Invoicing, SAP accounts payable and e-Invoicing solutions.
• Exposure to SAP S/4 Sourcing and Procurement, Cross functional integration with ERP and 3rd Party systems and applications.
• Experience documenting functional and technical specifications.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient with Agile Methodology, tools and DevSecOps approaches.
• Certification in SAP MDG, SAP Fieldglass, SAP S/4 Sourcing and Procurement and SAP Ariba.

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 inventing for life, 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.

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Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Fieldglass, Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), GSM-R, Procurement, SAP Ariba, SAP Ariba Sourcing, SAP Fieldglass Integrations, SAP Master Data Governance (MDG), Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Implementations, Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing, Web Development

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

11/24/2025

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Requisition ID:R369317

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