Manager, Analytics Platform Engineer

Job Description
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
As a Platform Engineer you will design, deploy, and maintain predominantly data platforms. This role involves both creative and analytical skills to solve complex problems and create efficient, reliable solutions. You will use your expertise in requirements analysis, programming languages, development methodologies, and tools to build and deliver platforms that meet the needs of businesses, organizations, or end-users. You will work with other engineers, product managers and technical leads, you will help to design systems, determine functional and non-functional needs requirements and implement them accordingly. You should be ready to work independently as well as in a team.

What Will You Do In This Role

• Participate in defining the platform standards.
• Author, review, and maintain Terraform modules and state management for multi‑account/multi‑environment deployments.
• Implement reusable and repeatable environment provisioning and configuration
• Create and maintain clear documentation platform design, Infrastructure as Code patterns, operational runbooks, best practices regarding coding, security and compliance.
• Develop, verify, test, document, amend and refactor CI/CD pipelines and the platform configurations for deployment in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams.
• Integrate platform with data governance tooling (catalogs, lineage, access controls).
• Utilize system life cycle working practices for platform components delivery. Deploy automation to achieve well-engineered and secure outcome.
• Contribute to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas. Participate in evaluation of alternative solutions and approaches to the current architecture and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the Product manager.
• Participate in planning, execution, and delivery of the platform ensuring alignment with both functional, product and company goals.

What Should You Have

• Bachelors' degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience working with IaC Terraform, SQL and databases, Analytics platforms, DevOps tools and REST API.
• Very good Cloud knowledge, ideally AWS certified with good understanding of AWS core service like EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, VPC networking, Security Groups, subnets, IAM roles/policies, Route 53, Transit Gateways, Load Balancing, Lambda, KMS.
• Deep knowledge of DevOps tools and practices (like GitHub, GitHub Actions) for code versioning and deployment.
• Familiarity with modern product development principles – Agile, test driven development, UX, design thinking.
• Familiarity with development practices such as infrastructure observability, continuous integration/continuous deployment - CI/CD, containerization.
• Proficiency with other programming languages (Scala, R, Java) is a nice to have.
• Any experience with networking principles is also welcomed.
• Experience with Trino, Databricks, Redshift, Grafana is a huge benefit.

Required Skills
Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills
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Employee Status
Regular

Relocation
VISA Sponsorship
Travel Requirements
Flexible Work Arrangements
Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date
11/4/2025

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Requisition ID
R366252