R&D Data Architect

Join to apply for the R&D Data Architect role at Merck Healthcare1 day ago Be among the first 25 applicantsWork Your Magic with us Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.Join us to contribute to enterprise priority of driving innovation through data & digital. In R&D, the promise of bringing more medicines to more patients faster is closely linked with maximizing our data usage for improved decision‑making through analytics and AI. As a Data Architect, you will design, implement and enhance our data architecture, flows, structures and processing systems that form the core foundation for well‑structured, findable and accessible data. Your expertise will accelerate the provisioning of high‑quality data across our organization while serving as the technical lead for comprehensive data‑centric solutions utilizing data warehouses, AI, web interfaces and analytics components.Working closely with product owners and R&D stakeholders, you will optimize how we gather, structure and leverage data to support a broad variety of reporting, analytics, decision support and (Generative) AI solutions. You'll leverage our modern Data & AI ecosystem built on Snowflake, AWS, Informatica and Oracle technologies, becoming part of a highly skilled expert team. Your collaboration will span globally with headquarters‑based Data, Digital & IT teams and developer teams across Europe, US and India.As the single point of accountability for technical design and implementation in your area, you will translate complex requirements into efficient data architectures and partner with our data engineering team to transform these designs into reality. The data repositories, flows and solutions you design will directly enable Merck's mission to accelerate medical breakthroughs through intelligent data utilization.Qualification, Experience & SkillsMaster’s degree in computer science, mathematics, or related subjects6+ years of experience as a data warehouse expert, lead data engineer, data architect or data product ownerExperience in designing complex data models and data flow architecturesExperience in guiding data engineers in the implementation of scalable, reliable and efficient data flowsExperience in working with data & analytics solutions such as Snowflake, AWS (especially Glue, Lambda, DMS), Oracle and Informatica (PowerCenter and IICS). Experience working with Azure Dev Ops and warehouse automation tools (e.g. dbt, coalesce) is a plusConceptual experience in testing of data integrations and data modelsStrong knowledge of SQL, with knowledge of Python (in particular pandas and PySpark) being a plusStrong drive to think of data flows from end‑to‑end, i.e. from ingestion to data modelling and solution deliveryExperience with Healthcare R&D is a plusExcellent English and Spanish communication skills and ability to effectively communicate both with R&D scientists and software engineersExperience working in virtual and agile teamsWhat we offerWe are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progressSeniority levelAssociateEmployment typeFull-timeJob functionBusiness Development, Strategy/Planning, and AnalystIndustryPharmaceutical Manufacturing#J-18808-Ljbffr