Specialist - Big Data Engineering

**Specialist, Big Data Engineering**
- Opportunity to **be a part of IT Engineering, Development & Integration organization in Singapore**:

- ** Based in Singapore, **the regional hub for Asia Pacific (AP) and top-ranked biopharmaceutical company on The Straits Times and Statista’s list of Best Employers in Singapore for two consecutive years (2020, 2021).
- Join the** premier biopharmaceutical company **that has been in Singapore for more than** 25 years and in AP for over 60 years.**

Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.

Join us in the digital health revolution and tackle biggest opportunities and challenges at the intersection of healthcare, information and technology. Become a member of our IT Global Innovation Network in the heart of Singapore with start-up atmosphere and flat, friendly and collaborative environment. Enjoy a reward that technology careers don’t often bring: the satisfaction of helping to save lives.

We are seeking energetic, forward-thinking Big Data Developer that will work on the collecting, storing, processing, analyzing and visualizing of huge sets of data of disparate formats and data sources and integrating them into a single data lake for further visualization.

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**

The primary focus will be on choosing the appropriate big data technology, tool sets and frameworks to deliver optimal solutions to use for these purposes.
Besides great atmosphere and flexible working environment, we also offer:

- Competitive remuneration
- Position in a leading global healthcare company
- Challenging career
- Professional growth based on performance
- Innovative and flexible working environment
- Wide range of benefits

**WHAT YOU MUST HAVE**

To be successful in this role, you will have:
**Education Minimum Requirement**:
MSc Degree or BSc Degree with relevant experience in Computer Science or related field with 3-5 years of relevant experiences.

**Required Experience and Skills**:
Proven record of both backend data engineering and development with the following skills:

- Automation and Implementation of end-to-end ETL process of unstructured datasets.
- Hands on experience in Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS, Hive, Spark.
- Experience with various messaging systems, at least one of the following, Kafka, RabbitMQ or its equivalent.
- Good knowledge in back-end programming languages, Java, Python, shell scripting, SQL, etc.
- Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed design.
- Minimum 3 years of working experience in both frontend and backend development on data-heavy projects (ie, data engineering and programming experience)
- Excellent knowledge of relational (SQL) and non-relational databases (no-SQL) as well as Big Data technology like HDFS, Hive, Sparks.
- Able to design optimal data model for different use-cases with or without Big Data technology.
- Advance skill in SQL or other data query languages and working experience in tuning queries for data retrieval.
- Hands-on experience in building data pipelines or ETL flows.
- Hands-on experience with either two of the following databases: Hive, Postgresql, AWS RedShift, DynamoDB, MongoDB.
- Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services.
- Experience with any data visualisation tools like spotfire, qliksense, Microsoft Power BI, etc a plus.
- Ability to investigate and propose alternative technology and architecture.
- Strong project management and organizational skills.

**Preferred Experience**:

- Experience developing dashboards using JavaScript frameworks like Angular, ReactJS, D3.js and others
- Proficient with programming language like Node.JS or Java EE/Spring platforms.

Our Support Functions deliver services and makes recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the experience of working at our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

**WHO WE ARE**

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, 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 peopl