Job Description

Data Solution Architect #HHIADIND At our company we are leveraging analytics and technology, as we invent for life on behalf of patients around the world. We are seeking those who have a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision making, that will allow us to tackle some of the world\xe2\x80\x99s greatest health threats Within our commercial Insights, Analytics, and Data organization we are transforming to better power decision-making across our end-to-end commercialization process, from business development to late lifecycle management. As we endeavor, we are seeking a dynamic talent for the role of Solution Architect The talented, multi-disciplinary, Solution Architect will help guide the organization teams in materializing and scaling solutions offerings. This person will oversee development from all aspects including platform & infrastructure, data ingestion, and application development. As a Solution Architect you will be responsible for overall technical vision of solutions, ensuring the alignment of solution designs against architectural standards and business requirements. This role will support strategic technology decision making and define how solutions will be implemented, ensuring they are cost-effective, re-usable, scalable and deliver the desired business outcomes. You will also provide leadership in the solution and technology architecture community, setting the standards, practices, methods, and tools to implement consistent solution architecture practices across the organization, supporting high-quality solution and product delivery
Primary Responsibilities

• Lead development activities for bringing the organization\xe2\x80\x99s data ecosystem to a modern, effective, resilient, and robust architecture
• Working cross-functionally with other solution architects within the organization on integrating various products and services
• Work alongside product managers and owners to ensure the functional goals of the business, as well as the customer expectations are met through the core technology and capabilities driven by the development team
• Provide guidance in core architectural decisions including application development, data integration, and tooling decisions
• Present regular demos to stakeholders based on the features for each release
• Identify risks both technical and functional as they pertain to the build-out of both the foundational ecosystem as well as the customer-facing features within
• Design, develop, enhance, and help maintain services for a modern data platform and application environment
• Determine release strategies, methodologies, timelines, and feature roadmaps
• Lead migration and onboarding efforts for a multi-disciplinary development team to move to a new framework
• Lead thought and design around global next generation architecture within the organization
• Provide guidance and leadership in implementing tools and technologies to drive a cost-effective architecture and infrastructure
• A combination of strategic understanding, both business and technology experience, exceptional relationship building skills and solution-oriented mindset.

Education:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, etc.
• Required Experiences and Skills:
• 6 to 8 years relevant work experience in technology including areas such as cloud deployment & integration, data engineering, and application development
• Knowledge in AWS and deep understanding of the core services offered. Previous hands-on experience preferred
• Deep understanding of modern data architecture including processes for both batch and streaming (CDC + IoT) data as well as modern cloud-based data technology (e.g. Databricks/ Spark, Snowflake/Redshift)
• Understanding of DevOps processes and related tools including, but not limited to, IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation), config management (Chef, Puppet), Git / Bitbucket, Jenkins, etc.
• Ability to optimize and package python code
• Prior hands-on experience and deep understanding of application development frameworks, monitoring tools, and deployment methodologies
• Hands on experience with AWS data analytics services like S3, IAM, ECS, EMR, Fargate, Glue and Sagemaker
• Hands-on with python, building packages and managing virtual environments
• Understand data science life cycle, various data science algorithms and ML-Ops processes.

Preferred Experiences and Skills:

• Able to align and work with diverse stakeholders
• Broad business background with experience in complex systems and interdependencies
• Ability to lead a development team of diverse skillsets to include cloud, data, application, and cyber engineers and X-Ops teams
• AWS Solution Architect Certification

Our Human Health Division maintains a \xe2\x80\x9cpatient first, profits later\xe2\x80\x9d ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.
Who we are \xe2\x80\xa6
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 \xe2\x80\xa6
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\xe2\x80\x94and start making your impact today.
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\xe2\x80\x99s thinking and approach problems collectively for the common good. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace #HHIADIND Current Employees apply HERE Current Contingent Workers apply HERE Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully
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Requisition ID:R215891