Job Description

Word Press Lead Developer
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 WordPress Lead Developer, you will develop and support high-performance WordPress-based products and tools. You'll collaborate with engineering teams to write front-end and back-end code, develop custom themes and plugins, and integrate third-party services, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.

• Working in an Agile environment, you'll develop unit tests, identify risks early, and ensure consistent quality. Your role includes maintaining the platform's WordPress core while building customizable solutions that meet business needs

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering Teams: Work closely with product managers and engineers to develop and enhance WordPress platform features, ensuring alignment with business needs and user stories. Collaborate in constructing, amending, and verifying software systems and components, focusing on front-end and back-end WordPress development
• WordPress Architecture & Best Practices: Define and implement architectural best practices for WordPress, including multisite configurations, custom themes, and plugins. Ensure software configuration management across diverse technology environments, ensuring scalability, security, and efficiency of the platform.
• Documentation & Coding Standards: Create, maintain, and enforce comprehensive technical documentation and coding standards specific to WordPress development. Document processes for managing WordPress configurations and integrations, including APIs and third-party services.
• Code Reviews & Quality Assurance: Conduct code reviews to ensure consistency, quality, and adherence to best practices in WordPress development. Employ continuous improvement processes to maintain high coding standards and software fidelity, ensuring the security, reliability, and performance of the platform.
• Performance Testing & Monitoring: Conduct performance tests and monitor live website performance, addressing issues proactively. Validate and test integrated systems to ensure they meet security, scalability, and organizational standards, ensuring continuous platform optimization.
• Cross-Functional Communication & Project Leadership: Communicate effectively with business owners, agency partners, and IT teams to align on project requirements and timelines. Lead multiple WordPress development projects simultaneously, managing cross-functional teams and ensuring deadlines are met.
• API and Full-Stack Development: Specialize in WordPress-related API integration and platform development, including both front-end and back-end solutions. Develop and maintain interfaces and systems that support the creation, update, and management of data, ensuring compliance with security and performance objectives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in web development, with a focus on managing and scaling complex systems.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in WordPress development, including multisite configuration, custom themes, plugins, and Gutenberg editor.
• Strong understanding of WordPress security best practices and performance optimization techniques.
• Proven expertise in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), from planning and design to development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Experience in Solution Architecture, including defining the structure and best practices for WordPress platforms to ensure scalability, security, and performance.
• Demonstrated experience in conducting website performance tests, monitoring metrics, and implementing optimizations.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks and methodologies to validate software functionality, security, and performance within WordPress environments.

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: Business, Cost Reduction Initiatives, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Human Resource Management, Knowledge Transfer, Management Process, Manufacturing Cost Reduction, Social Collaboration, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Stakeholder Buy-In, Stakeholder Management, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing, VIP Management, WordPress Content Management
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Job Posting End Date: 08/20/2025
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