Senior Manager, AI Insights Engineering

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Senior Manager, AI Insights 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
Are you driven to create real-world impact through applied AI, modern analytics, and intelligent automation and passionate about shaping the future of data and analytics in AI era? We are looking for an experienced and forward-thinking
Senior AI Engineer / Full-Stack Developer in Data & Analytics
to join our global team to help with our transformation from BI to AI.

This role combines deep expertise in
data engineering, BI/visualization, and AI/GenAI
with a hands-on builder mindset. You will lead the design and delivery of
next-generation analytics solutions
, integrating semantic layers, streaming data, embedded insights, and AI agents. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable writing code, shaping architecture, experimenting with GenAI models, and mentoring teams—bridging
BI, ML, engineering
in a highly regulated, global pharma environment.

What Will You Do In This Role
Architect and build data and analytics solutions that align with our transofrmation from BI to AI focusing on

• Semantic models, governed self-service, and report cataloging
• Embedded analytics, feedback loops, and personalized insights
• AI/GenAI orchestration, including RAG, prompt chaining, and Copilot integrations

Design and deliver data products and microservices combining

• BI tools (Power BI, Qlik, ThoughtSpot)
• Vector databases and LLM-powered APIs
• Real-time streaming and telemetry (Kafka, Fabric, Snowflake, Databricks)

Build and deploy AI models for use cases like

• Semantic search and insight generation
• Report summarization and auto-commentary
• Decision-making agents and anomaly detection

Collaborate across data engineering, business, product, and compliance teams to align on technical architecture, governance, and platform scalability.

Lead proof-of-concepts, technical pilots, and full-stack AI solutions from ideation to production.

Contribute to open discussions and communities of practice around ML Ops, AI tooling, metadata modeling, and observability.

Continuously scan the AI/LLM landscape and identify innovative approaches that bring business value.

What Should You Have

• Master degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in data/analytics/AI roles, with demonstrated ability to build complex solutions end-to-end.
• Deep expertise in Python, SQL, and modern data engineering stacks (e.g., dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, Azure/AWS).
• Proficiency in AI/ML fundamentals neural networks, vector embeddings, prompt engineering, transformers, evaluation metrics.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs and GenAI frameworks (GPT-3.5/4, Llama, Claude, RAG, LangChain, Haystack, etc.).
• Experience building and deploying REST APIs, integrating AI into BI tools or operational systems.
• Strong background in BI platforms such as Power BI, Qlik, and ThoughtSpot, with experience in data modeling, DAX/set analysis, and performance tuning.
• Excellent communication skills; able to explain technical designs and model decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with agent orchestration platforms, Copilot development, or autonomous decision agents.
• Familiarity with pharma or life sciences domain and its regulatory requirements (HIPAA, GxP, GDPR).
• Contributions to open-source AI/analytics tools or frameworks.
• Experience in multi-tenant SaaS architecture, metadata governance, or telemetry collection for usage-based optimization.
• Certifications in cloud (AWS, Azure), data engineering, or GenAI technologies.

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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Employee Status
Regular

Relocation
VISA Sponsorship
Travel Requirements
Flexible Work Arrangements
Hybrid

Shift
Valid Driving License
Hazardous Material(s)
Required Skills
Data Modeling, Design Applications, Release Management, Requirements Management, Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration

Preferred Skills
Job Posting End Date
09/26/2025

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Requisition ID
R356862