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Be part of technology driven, data-led organization supporting a diversified portfolio of medicines, vaccines and animal health products. Work alongside passionate teams that use data, analytics and insights to drive decisions, and tackle some of the world’s greatest health threats.\nOur Technology Centers are globally distributed hubs that enable our digital transformation and business outcomes across IT. Each Tech Center is supported by a focused group of leaders who invest in the well-being of our people and work together across locations to optimize global connections and continuously share and improve best practices.\nThis role is based at our Hyderabad Tech Center and follows a hybrid working model (at least 3 days onsite, 2 days remote). Candidates are expected to reside within commuting distance of the Hyderabad office.\nRole Overview\nWe are seeking an experienced, hands-on engineering leader to join the Veeva Platform Center of Efficiency as Associate Director, Veeva Platform Engineering Lead. Reporting to the Director, Center of Efficiency, this role leads engineering execution across the enterprise Veeva Platform ecosystem, with India as the primary location and Prague, Budapest, and Barcelona also considered.\nUnlike traditional Vault-specific leadership roles, this position operates at the Veeva Platform level and requires an enterprise-first mindset. 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This is a player-coach role requiring both leadership execution and technical engagement while leading a multidisciplinary team of engineers and specialists and enabling AI-driven ways of working.\nWhat will you do in this role:\n· Lead engineering execution across the Veeva Platform ecosystem, ensuring successful delivery of platform priorities, backlog commitments, and roadmap-aligned initiatives.\n· Translate platform engineering strategy into executable plans and measurable outcomes in partnership with the Center of Efficiency (CoE) & Center of Strategy (CoS) Leadership.\n· Manage and develop a multidisciplinary team including Integration Engineers, Veeva Configuration Specialists, Quality Engineers, Business Analysts, Release Managers, and AI Engineers.\n· Partner with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, business stakeholders, Vault teams, vendors, and matrix teams to prioritize, plan, and deliver high-quality platform capabilities.\n· Drive platform-wide adoption of reusable 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Vault, GxP, Mulesoft integration, Agile\nSecondary skill: Stakeholder management, Veeva Vault Certification\nBachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline.\n10+ years of experience in enterprise software delivery, platform engineering, solution engineering, or technology leadership roles, including 5+ years leading technical teams and engineering delivery organizations.\nDeep expertise on architecture, implementation, platform activities & functional knowledge on multiple Veeva Vault domains such as Quality, Clinical, Regulatory, Safety, Medical, or related Veeva applications, with demonstrated ability to operate beyond individual Vault boundaries in a multi-Vault platform ecosystem.\nStrong experience delivering enterprise integrations using Veeva APIs, MuleSoft, event-driven architectures, API-led connectivity, and modern integration patterns.\nExperience implementing secure integration and authentication patterns, including OAuth, authentication modernization, and enterprise security best practices.\nExperience working in GxP-regulated environments with an understanding of compliance, validation, quality, and operational risk requirements.\nStrong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business leaders across multiple organizations.\nExperience managing Agile delivery processes, engineering backlogs, prioritization, demand management, and roadmap-aligned execution.\nDemonstrated ability to balance strategic objectives with hands-on technical leadership in a player-coach capacity.\nExperience across multiple Veeva Vault domains rollout strategy\nVeeva Vault Platform Administrator Certification, and/or a Vault Development / Platform Developer track certification (or demonstrable equivalent hands-on experience).\nExperience leading platform modernization, transformation, or engineering excellence initiatives.\nKnowledge of AI-assisted software engineering, GenAI technologies, and emerging AI delivery practices.\nExperience with ITIL disciplines including Incident, Change, and Problem Management.\nExperience with cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and enterprise architecture principles.\nExperience building and scaling engineering teams within global, matrixed organizations.\nExperience within the pharmaceutical or life sciences domain.\nAny vault-specific Veeva certification (Clinical, RIM, QMS, Safety, Medical).\nExperience with Veeva Vault Java SDK.\nBuilds and operationalizes a high-performing Veeva Platform Engineering delivery team.\nDelivers strategic platform backlog initiatives and roadmap-aligned engineering commitments.\nDrives platform-wide adoption of reusable patterns, standards, and best practices.\nAdvances platform security through authentication, modernization, and remediation of platform risks and technical debt.\nOptimizes release management processes across the Veeva ecosystem.\nPartners effectively and build trust with Vault teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and platform leadership.\nAccelerates engineering productivity through AI-enabled ways of working.\nPromotes enterprise-first thinking and helps evolve the Veeva Platform into a scalable, secure, and reusable enterprise capability.\nOur 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.\nWho we are:\nWe are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been 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.\nWhat we look for:\nImagine 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.\nRequired Skills:\nAgile Methodology, GxPs, MES Integration, Veeva VaultPreferred Skills:\nDevOps, Stakeholder ManagementCurrent Employees apply HERE\nCurrent Contingent Workers apply HERE\nSecondary Language(s) Job Description:\nSearch Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully\nMerck & 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.\nEmployee Status:\nRegularRelocation:\nDomesticVISA Sponsorship:\nNoTravel Requirements:\nNo Travel RequiredFlexible Work Arrangements:\nHybridShift:\nNot IndicatedValid Driving License:\nNoHazardous Material(s):\nn/aJob Posting End Date:\n10/7/2026*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. 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