Senior Specialist, Cloud .Net Full-Stack Technical Lead

Job Description

Senior Specialist, Cloud .Net- Full-Stack Technical Lead

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 our companys’ 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

The Senior Specialist, Cloud, AI and Full-Stack Technical Lead supports the Portfolio Submission and Planner Management (PSPM) area within the Business Operations.

This hands-on leadership role is responsible for designing, building, modernizing, and operating business-critical solutions that support portfolio, project, resource, and financial management processes. The role combines technical leadership with deep expertise in cloud engineering, full-stack development, AI-enabled applications, data integration, and DevSecOps.

The successful candidate will drive platform modernization, embed AI capabilities into business solutions, accelerate engineering delivery through AI-assisted development practices, and mentor teams in delivering secure, scalable, and resilient products.

What would you do:

Cloud & Full-Stack Engineering

• Design, develop, modernize, and support enterprise applications using .NET, Python, APIs, cloud-native services, and modern web technologies.
• Build secure, scalable, and responsive user experiences using Angular and/or React.
• Architect and implement cloud-native solutions across Azure and AWS.
• Develop APIs, integrations, workflows, and event-driven services supporting PSPM capabilities.
• Lead modernization initiatives to improve scalability, reliability, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
• Own end-to-end solution delivery from architecture through production support.

AI Solutions & Engineering Innovation

• Design and implement AI-powered capabilities using Generative AI, AI Agents, RAG, intelligent automation, and enterprise AI services.
• Identify opportunities to embed AI into products, workflows, reporting, and decision-support processes to improve business outcomes.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate software development, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and operational support.
• Establish responsible AI practices covering security, governance, compliance, transparency, and observability.
• Drive innovation through evaluation and adoption of emerging AI technologies and engineering practices.
• Mentor and coach engineers on AI solution development and modern engineering approaches.

Data, Integration & Analytics

• Design and implement data integration, transformation, automation, and reporting solutions.
• Develop scalable integration patterns using APIs, messaging platforms, and cloud services.
• Ensure data quality, security, performance, observability, and operational reliability.
• Enable analytics and data-driven decision-making across PSPM platforms.

DevSecOps & Cloud Operations

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment automation, and security controls.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
• Establish monitoring, telemetry, observability, dashboards, and alerting.
• Lead root cause analysis and resolution of complex production issues across application, cloud, infrastructure, and data layers.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, SDLC, and operational readiness standards.

Technical Leadership

• Serve as the technical lead for engineering teams and strategic initiatives.
• Provide architecture guidance, design reviews, code reviews, and technical mentorship.
• Translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, roadmaps, and delivery plans.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, business stakeholders, and vendors to deliver business value.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures, AI-driven solutions, automation, and engineering best practices.
• Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, quality, collaboration, and continuous learning.

What you Should Have:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.

Experience & Technical Skills

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with increasing responsibilities in technical leadership and solution delivery.
• Strong expertise in C#/.NET, REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Python for application development, automation, integrations, data processing, and AI solutions.
• Experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native solutions on Azure and/or AWS.
• Proficiency in Angular or React, TypeScript, and modern frontend development.
• Experience with enterprise integrations, data platforms, APIs, messaging, and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, or integrating AI-enabled solutions, including Generative AI, AI Agents, RAG-based applications, intelligent automation, or conversational AI.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to improve software delivery, quality, testing, documentation, and operational efficiency.
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and cloud operations.
• Experience leading engineering teams, mentoring developers, and driving technical decision-making.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) platforms such as Microsoft Project Online, Project Server Subscription Edition, Planner Premium, Planisware, ServiceNow PPM, or similar solutions.
• Experience leading cloud modernization, platform migration, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience implementing Generative AI, AI Agents, intelligent automation, enterprise copilots, or AI-driven business solutions.
• Knowledge of portfolio management, resource management, project governance, financial planning, and reporting processes.
• Experience in regulated environments (GxP, SOX, or similar).
• Azure, AWS, AI, or related technical certifications.

Success Profile

The successful candidate is:

• A hands-on technical leader who can architect, build, troubleshoot, and deliver.
• An AI-first innovator who can both leverage AI to accelerate engineering and embed AI capabilities into business products and workflows.
• Passionate about cloud technologies, modern software engineering, and continuous improvement.
• Comfortable working across application, data, integration, AI, and infrastructure domains.
• Capable of driving technical strategy while remaining deeply engaged in execution.
• A trusted partner who develops talent, influences technical direction, and consistently delivers measurable business outcomes.

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 , 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.

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