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You’ll help bake in security-by-design while still keeping things fast and developer-friendly.\nWhat you’ll do\nLead with experience and systems thinking: You’ll create the core elements of the Integration Platform-modular interfaces, intuitive onboarding flows, clear access patterns, and simple ways to understand platform health and status. Your focus will be on making complicated things feel easy and predictable\nTurn complexity into clarity: You’ll design self-service experiences and workflows that abstract away the hard parts of provisioning, accessing, and integrating with platforms. You’ll translate logs, events, and orchestration outputs into signals that humans can understand instantly\nCreate patterns that scale: You’ll collaborate with platform users across divisions to define standards, shared contracts, and consistent ways of working. 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You’ll help create a working culture that values communication, curiosity, and continuous learning\nProvide leadership through clarity and empathy: You’ll guide others toward better UX patterns, stronger security practices, and more coherent platform standards. You’ll help shape technical direction while balancing multiple perspectives: users, platform owners, security, and business goals\nWhat success looks like\nOnboarding and provisioning feel fast, intuitive, and self-service by default\nEngineering experience consistency across shared patterns, predictable workflows, and clear guardrails\nPlatform owners benefit from reusable contracts, aligned patterns, and reduced operational friction\nUsers can quickly understand platform health, usage, cost, and compliance through meaningful signals\nWhether through UI, API, CLI, or SDK, the experience feels coherent, reliable, and well-documented\nAI improves discoverability, guidance, and everyday workflows\nTeams feel heard-feedback loops are fast, transparent, and meaningful\nYou are seen as a key voice in shaping the experience layer and aligning teams around shared standards\nWhat you bring\nA strong engineering background with experience in platform engineering, developer tooling, or internal platforms\nA mindset focused on usability, clarity, simplification, and systems design-not just implementation\nComfort moving across technologies and learning new tools as needed\nAn automation-oriented approach and familiarity with modern Platform Engineering & DevOps practices\nExperience designing experiences for developers or internal users through portals, workflows, APIs, or tooling\nA security-first mindset: understanding identity, access, guardrails, and secure patterns\nExperience creating meaningful telemetry and insights for users\nStrong communication skills: the ability to facilitate workshops, explain decisions, gather feedback, and guide others\nComfort working in Scrum and in evolving environments\nNice to have\nExposure to integration platforms\nBackground in platform engineering or internal developer platforms\nExperience applying AI/ML to workflow or assistant-style experiences\nWhat we value\nPutting the user at the center-building experiences people actually enjoy using\nSecurity, automation, and self-service as core design principles\nCuriosity, healthy debate, and the ability to simplify complex systems\nRapid iteration with strong feedback loops and real-world validation\nA focus on outcomes: adoption, reliability, time-to-provision, and overall user satisfaction\nWhat we offer\nExciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment\nOpportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally\nHybrid working model, flexible role pattern\nCompetitive salary & incentive pay\nPension and health insurance contributions\nInternal reward system and referral scheme\n5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution\nCafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card\nVodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and discount programmes\nUp-to-date laptop and iPhone\nParking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner \nReady to take up the challenge? Apply now!\nKnow anybody who might be interested? Refer this job!\nRequired Skills:\nData Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, DevOps Architecture, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Enterprise Systems Integration, Integration Architecture, Managing Workshops, Platform Engineering, Radio Telemetry, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Systems Thinking, Technology Integrations, Telemetry, Testing, Workshop FacilitationPreferred Skills:\nCurrent Employees apply HERE\nCurrent Contingent Workers apply HERE\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. 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