Specialist, Data Visualization Platform Engineer

Join a multi-award-winning leading global biopharmaceutical company with a dedicated IT hub and be at the center of innovation and excellence in execution.
- Bring your entrepreneurial curiosity and learning spirit into a career of purpose and personal growth.
- Be an advisor to the business. Work collaboratively with local and global IT and commercial teams to develop, implement and oversee IT innovation and strategies.

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where we have codified its 125-year legacy. Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

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.

The Visual Analytics team, which is part of the Foundational Analytics & Data organization within Chief Technology Office, is responsible for creating a seamless experience for analytics experts to harness the potential of data and interactive analytics through a unified platform across the enterprise - from scientific/clinical to commercial across all company locations.

Part of the Visual Analytics team are a group of Platform Engineers who are responsible for managing components that form the enterprise visual analytics platforms. In this role, you will act as the capability lead for the Data Visualization platform that serves a diverse group of. The role will require the ability to technical engineering of the platform and hands on working knowledge creating data visualizations as a user of the platform.

What will you do:

- Architecting, designing, planning, building and operating activities related to Visual Analytics platforms at
- Coordinate geographically distributed teams in support of platform engineering activities; automation, upgrade and patch coordination, platform administration guidance, monitoring, troubleshooting and performance analysis.
- Contribute to Visual Analytics technology roadmap and future state capabilities.
- Write technical documentation including, but not limited to configuration artifacts, infrastructure/technical diagrams, installation qualification and validation documentation.
- Maintain current industry knowledge of Visual Analytics best practices and procedures.

What should you have:

- BSc in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 5+ years’ experience with at least 3+ years of demonstrated platform engineering area using Agile and cloud technologies.
- Experience in building and supporting large scale visual analytics platforms and solutions using modern cloud technologies and automation principles.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to quickly establish credibility and trust with a variety of stakeholders.
- Familiarity with Release Management, Problem and Incident Management, Software Development Life Cycle best practices and project methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.
- Confident individual who is organized, able to coordinate teams and activities in a complex international environment.
- Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate technical and non-technical information verbally and in writing.
- Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate technical and non-technical information verbally and in writing.

Desired Experience and Skills:

- Familiarity with Spotfire, Qlik Sense, Power BI or other Visual Analytics tools
- Agile and/or Product Management Certifications.
- Prior experience in Enterprise SaaS product management with successful traction in development, launch and growth of products.
- Certifications in one or more cloud technologies
- Prior experience in developing and launching multi-tenant platforms that cater to technical user base
- Previous experience in Life sciences and Pharma domain as an added advantage.

Your role with the company is integral to helping the world meet new breakthroughs that affect generations to come. We're counting on your skills to help make meaningful contributions to global medical advancement.

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, 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

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact