Merck & Co.

Job Description

Manager, SAP Integration Architect

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:

Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.

The candidate will work with a globally diverse set of teams which includes SAP Basis, Security, ABAP, SAP functional team members, Infrastructure team and other IT process partners providing support for existing and new initiatives. The candidate will work closely with and advise the SAP Technical Architect on architectural topics and new applications / technologies to be integrated. The candidate will lead some cross-functional projects, relied upon to answer complex questions, and assists with program-wide initiatives. Our organization is on a transformation journey, and we envision using newer SAP technologies and infrastructure as part of this transformation and the candidate must have exposure to these new technologies. It is expected that the candidate will be able to both lead technical initiatives and be hands-on.

As SAP Integration Architect, you will play a pivotal role in enabling seamless connectivity between systems, processes, and data across the pharmaceutical organization's digital landscape. Your expertise will help drive innovation and ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of our integration solutions using the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and other middleware.

What will you do in this role:

• Design and implement integration solutions using SAP BTP iPaaS capabilities
• Develop and optimize interfaces for real-time and batch integration across SAP and non-SAP system
• Leverage SAP Integration Suite (Cloud Integration, Open Connectors, API Management for building robust and scalable integration solutions.
• Implement event driven architectures using SAP Event Mesh or other event streaming technologies
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business stakeholders, architects, and developers, to gather and analyze integration requirements.
• Translate business needs into technical designs and integration workflows
• Ensure integration comply with organizational security standards, regulatory guidelines (e.g. GxP, HIPAA), and industry best practices.
• Manage data flow governance and error handling mechanisms
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize integration processes to ensure performance, uptime, and data accuracy.
• Conduct regular health checks and implement proactive measures for continuous improvement
• Create and maintain technical documentation for integration processes, configurations, and best practices.
• Act as a subject matter expert.
• Advocate for process automation and digital transformation initiatives within the organization.

What Should you have:

• Minimum of 4 years SAP hands-on experience with Process Integration (PI), Process orchestration (PO), SAP Integration Suite (Cloud Integration, API Management, Open Connectors).
• Proficiency in developing integration between SAP ECC/S4HANA and non-SAP systems (e.g., Salesforce, Workday).
• Knowledge of integration patterns (e.g., synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven).
• Proficiency in authentication and authorization protocols (OAuth, JWT, SAML).
• Familiarity with JSON, XML, XSLT, OData, REST, and SOA
• Experience with SAP Event Mesh, BTP Extension Suite, or SAP CAP (Cloud Application Programming).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for SAP integration projects.
• Exposure to other middleware platforms (e.g., MuleSoft, Boomi) is a plus
• JAVA stack knowledge is essential.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Ability to work independently in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Deal with ambiguity, manage multiple priorities, and meet stretch goals.

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

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Hybrid

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Required Skills:

Business, Communication, Emerging Technologies, Hiring Management, Management Process, Methods and Tools, Requirements Management, SAP HCM, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Strategic Planning, System Designs, Technical Advice

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Job Posting End Date:

08/28/2025

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