Merck & Co.

Job Description

• 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 organization driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that supports a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. 
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be the leaders who have a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, which will allow 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 serve our company purpose to save and improve lives. An integral part of our company 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 in our global organization that partners across the entire company. 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:

The Senior Manager, MuleSoft Engineer will be specializing in using MuleSoft's integration platform to design, develop, and manage APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and integrations between various systems and applications. This role is pivotal in enabling and enhancing business strategies and processes through the application of expert integration solutions.

We are looking for a technical leader who is not afraid of taking ownership and transforming business need to technical solution bringing value to our stakeholders and clients. We seek a leader who can help us to build new teams and guarantee technical excellence of our integrations developed using Mulesoft platform from design to operations included.

Our Systems Integration Platform is a critical enabler for our digital transformation journey. It enables fast, efficient, and secure data and information exchange across essential systems and applications. As a technical leader in our team, you will work in a modern cloud environment and use modern tools and innovative technologies to design, build, operate, and continuously improve important system.

You will be responsible for the following:

• Leading technical delivery of integrations as main guarantor of quality
• Translating high level design or business requirements to low level design and specific task for development team
• Orchestrating and ownership of integrations from design, through delivery to production including smooth operations and maintenance.
• Define, build and grow team of integration engineers who will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of integrations and technical support.
• Establish and maintain relationships with global IT and divisional teams to help accelerate the delivery of our business solutions.
• Get a deep understanding of the business processes, systems, and data that support our own business.
• Conduct architecture evaluations and collaborate with IT architects to identify the right mixture of technical excellence, business requirements and financial budgets.
• Define & implement integration to systems & solutions that meet Product Team requirements.
• Leverage industry standard frameworks and current knowledge of the industry trends to advise on leading architecture practices.
• Analyze the current solution architecture to detect critical deficiencies and recommend actions/steps for improvement.
• Undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs and communicate it to business leaders and architects.
• Provides technical guidance and governance on solution development and integration to engineering team.
• Create low-level technical designs and implement integrations within our company using our API & Integration Platforms
• Teach and mentor developers how to design, develop and create APIs and integrations.
• Implement and improve current Infrastructure as a Code approach and strengthen CI/CD deployments.
• Thinking about systems edge cases, potential security breaches, behaviors, specific implementations, and full stack impact on overall availability
• Evaluate project constraints to find alternatives, alleviate risks, and perform process re-engineering if required. Find resolution to technical issues as they arise.
• Provide estimates and plan delivery timelines.
• Lead sprint planning by splitting high level demand to actionable tasks for developers with estimated efforts and clear definition of done.

Expected experience and skills:

• 8 to 10 years of application and data integration experience.
• API & Integration designs in an enterprise environment
• Well-versed in different integration patterns and technologies, such as ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), microservices, RESTful APIs, SOAP, and messaging systems.
• Strong engineering and problem-solving mindset
• Experience working with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, including the ability to communicate with both business and technical audiences.
• Various technologies for designing, building, and operating APIs and microservices (REST, HTTP, OAS 3.x, OAuth 2.0, etc.)
• Understanding security protocols, authentication methods, and data privacy regulations to ensure secure data exchange and compliance.
• Experience with low-code/no-code integrations.
• Critical thinker who can effectively embrace new ideas and technologies while balancing the needs of stakeholders and users.
• Skilled in designing solutions that address complex integration challenges while considering scalability, security, performance, and maintainability.

Preferred experience and skills:

• Knowledge of the Mulesoft Platform (MuleSoft Certified Developer or MuleSoft Certified Architect)
• Knowledge of the Kong API Platform
• Knowledge of any enterprise integration platform
• Solid knowledge of AWS Cloud
• Understanding of IaC (Infrastructure as a Code)
• Working in Agile Environment (Kanban, Scrum)
• Programming experience, understanding the code (Java, Bash, Node.js)
• DevOps culture and practice

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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Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Required Skills:

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

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Job Posting End Date:

01/31/2025

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