Associate Director, Data Analytics & AI - Solution Architect

Job Description

Associate Director, EIT, Data Analytics & AI, Solution Architect

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 the 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 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 are at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals. One of the key priorities for our company is a significant focus on Data and its utilization as a Strategic asset to drive insight-driven decisions. The opportunity to accelerate our time to insights hinges on our ability to integrate, enrich and govern our disparate and evolving data sources, at speed and scale. The Enterprise IT Digital, Data and Analytics & AI team’s mission is to focus on driving these capabilities to increase utilization of data within the organization.

Are you passionate about designing innovative solutions that drive business success? Join us as a Solution Architect for Data Analytics & AI, where you will lead the development of forward-looking architecture that power our enterprise. As a strategic communicator and technical expert, you will collaborate across teams to ensure seamless integration and compliance. If you are ready to apply your expertise in AI and automation to make a meaningful impact, we encourage you to apply.

What will you do in this role:

• Design and evaluate scalable solution architectures that meet enterprise needs across Data & Analytics (DnA), Intelligent Automation (IA), and AI domains.
• Analyze current architectures to identify gaps and recommend improvements for scalability, performance, and cost efficiency, while defining and evolving target-state architectures for DnA and IA platforms across business functions.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and architects to ensure seamless integration and compliance, while championing governance practices, applying architectural frameworks, and driving innovative solutions.
• Monitor industry and technology trends to shape architecture roadmaps and guide adoption of emerging capabilities like GenAI and self-service analytics.
• Align solution architecture with business strategy, advocate for user-centric design principles and manage technical debt with remediation strategies.
• Evaluate the financial impact of architectural alternatives to ensure cost-effective, value-driven solutions.
• Lead agile delivery of reusable technology products that support long-term architectural vision and deliver incremental value.
• Promote DevSecOps, platform automation, and modern engineering practices to enhance delivery and operational excellence.
• Build strong networks across business and IT, actively contributing to Our communities of practice and architectural forums.

What Should you have:

• Bachelor’s degree concentration in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience spanning IT disciplines including solution architecture, systems integration, and end-to-end system design across data, application, and platform layers.
• Strong understanding of IT, Solution & Data architecture principles, data platforms, business process management and enterprise technology reuse
• Demonstrated ability to analyze, design, and implement solutions based on current and future state architectures and reference models
• Skilled in defining high-level requirements, guiding solution decisions, and providing architectural blueprints for engineering teams
• Proficient in Data and Analytics platforms, Intelligent Automation tools, Artificial Intelligence technologies and platforms, Data Lakehouse architecture, Data quality, Lineage & Cataloging tools
• Familiarity with cloud-native platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure), CI/CD pipelines, observability, infrastructure as code, GenAI, machine learning lifecycle, intelligent automation platforms, and orchestration frameworks
• Deep understanding of System Development Life Cycle(SDLC), SOX, GxP, and data privacy regulations in enterprise environments
• Strong leadership in strategic planning, innovation, talent development, and execution excellence
• Effective communicator with the ability to influence cross-functional teams, drive alignment with enterprise goals, and articulate architecture rationale and trade-offs to stakeholders with varying technical acumen

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven ability to lead and manage cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
• Advanced certifications in related fields such as TOGAF or other architecture related credentials, AI, Data Science, or Automation
• Functional familiarity with one or more enterprise platforms such as SAP, ServiceNow, Workday
• Experience architecting enterprise-scale data, AI, or automation solution(s) preferably in Life Sciences or equivalent regulated industries
• Proficiency in GenAI architecture and ability to articulate reference architecture for AI / LLMOps

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 lives, 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.

Required Skills:

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Analytics, Data Modeling, Design Applications, Generative AI, Release Management, Requirements Management, Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration

Preferred Skills:

Database Modeling

Current Employees apply HERE

Current Contingent Workers apply HERE

Secondary Language(s) Job Description:

#MSDHYDIT

Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully 
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company.  No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails. 

Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Job Posting End Date:

10/16/2026

*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.