Senior Manager, for Modernization

Job Description

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 companys’ 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

At our company, we aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company. We're at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals. We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to hire, grow, and lead a high-performing, multidisciplinary engineering team modernizing large-scale, customer-facing systems across various lines of business. Join us to own the end-to-end delivery and success of engineering resources that span modern distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI-enabled consumer experiences.

What will you do in this role

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  Build and manage a diverse, high-performing engineering team (infrastructure engineers, cloud engineers, software engineers, etc.) — recruit, mentor, coach, and grow individual contributors and technical leaders.
• Lead the full engineering lifecycle for your product area: architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and operations.
• Drive delivery commitments and program execution — plan, manage dependencies, and report status to stakeholders.
• Make system-level architecture and design decisions; collaborate with engineers to select pragmatic, maintainable technical approaches.
• Promote engineering excellence: reliability, scalability, observability, and sustainable engineering practices.
• Represent the team in technical discussions and stakeholder escalations; prioritize and resolve stakeholder issues.
• Ensure the team operates inclusively and sustainably, maintaining a healthy engineering pace and high morale.

What should you have

• 7+ years Overall experience.

• 6+ years of hands-on engineering experience building multi-tier web services, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
• 1+ years of engineering management experience.
• Proven track record of building and shipping production services at scale.
• Experience designing and implementing robust software development practices: code reviews, source control, CI/CD, testing strategies, and incident management.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills — able to distill technical trade-offs for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit and retain strong engineering talent and to develop people through coaching and feedback.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and balancing product, technical, and operational priorities.

Preferred

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), system lifecycle, automated testing, and on-premise systems.
• Familiarity with LLMs, generative AI, or ML product development.
• Proficiency in languages such as Go, Python, Java, Ruby or equivalent.
• Track record of improving engineering practices, documentation, testing, and observability across teams.
• Experience hiring across geographies and building inclusive, high-performing teams.

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.

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