Merck & Co.

Job Description

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where our company has codified its 130-year legacy. Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

We know that our people are the key to our success, which is why the our team works to attract, develop, retain and inspire our people so that they can learn, grow and make a true impact on the world. Together we collaborate to create a culturally rich, diverse organization ensuring we remain innovative and agile.

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 Workplace and Enterprise Services, Global Security, and Information Technology colleagues. These critical functions operate at a global scale, supporting our business in over 130 countries.

The Product Line Technical Lead role has been created to lead a team to meet the new development backlog across this domain. In this role you will lead a team of Technical Leads, Software Engineers, Testing Engineers, and Scrum Masters, developing new solutions or enhancing existing solutions to address the core application backlogs, emerging automation and analytical needs of senior Global Workplace and Enterprise Services and Global Security Management leaders.

As a leader within the IT group, you will:

• Build key relationships with Global Workplace and Enterprise Services and Global Security Management leadership and IT colleagues to lead the delivery of our business solutions
• Gain a deep understanding of the business processes, systems, and data that support strategic processes and programs
• Build a high-performing team of Technical Leads, Software Engineers, Testing Engineers, and Scrum Masters to deliver robust technology solutions
• Share knowledge and mentor others in areas of technical expertise
• Acquire knowledge and be mentored in areas of growth and development

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for establishing the technical vision principles, standards, and roadmap at the Product Line level.
• Responsible for guiding the delivery squads and technical leads and informing Product Managers and PLLs on the technical design and direction of the Product Line.
• Provides technical input to the Product Line Lead to align and orchestrate objectives and backlogs across all products in the Product Line
• Works with Product Managers and Product Line Leads to align the roadmap with strengths and opportunities within the technical stack.
• Assists Product Owners in removing technical impediments
• Guides Product Teams and Product Technical Leads in building reusable and scalable components
• Ensures the Product Line evolves technically to meet changing needs of the business and users
• Mentors and coaches the Product Technical Lead and engineering team ▪Seeks for simplifying end-to-end processes through interfacing products

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience working in large, complex IT development projects
• People management experience leading technical teams comprised of Software engineers, Technical Leads, Testing Engineers
• Exposure to Global Workplace and Enterprise Services and Global Security Management applications and technologies, including industry trends
• Agile software development experience
• History of managing technical priorities within a Backlog
• Track record of success in defining product line architecture for complex solutions
• Functional expertise in divisional specific products, platforms, data architecture, and technology trends
• Strong technical breadth across AWS technology stack
• Some exposure/ experience in Data engineering on the cloud with knowledge of AWS cloud components such as S3, Athena, RDS and exposure to data engineering and visualization components such as Alteryx, Dataiku, Power BI etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communications and collaboration skills.

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team
• Competitive salary
• Position in leading global healthcare company
• Global projects, international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Representative office

Wide range of benefits

• Flexible working hours, home office
• Yearly Bonus based on company and personal performance
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Edenred Benefits + meal vouchers
• Internal reward system – INSPIRE – with redeeming option as services, goods or vouchers
• Up to date laptop and iPhone mobile device

Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please specify to our Talent Acquisition team if you need any support during the application or hiring process. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, disability status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively.

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Regular

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Required Skills:

Benefits Administration, Management System Development, Product Management, Requirements Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management

Preferred Skills:

Automated Testing, Automated Testing, Business Management, Business Process Development, Business Process Integration, Business Process Management Software, Business Process Modeling, Business Service Management, Content Management Software, Data Architecture, Data Infrastructure, Digital Project Management, Enterprise Software Management, Facility Management, Information Management, Information Security Management, Information Systems Project Management, Information Technology Management, IT Business Management, IT Development, IT Executive Management, ITIL Management, IT Infrastructure Management, IT Infrastructure Operations, IT Management Software {+ 17 more}