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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.\nOur 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.\nA 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.\nRole Overview\nWhat you would do:\nSoftware development on backend (Python,TypeScript) and frontend (TypeScript/JavaScript - React framework).\nWrite efficient and maintainable code following best practices in software engineering. \nWorking with DevSecOps tools for deploying and versioning code. \nDeploy solutions on the cloud with CI/CD integration. \nDeliver enterprise AI projects, products, and platforms with a focus on scalability and reusability. \nWork on technical pilots and feasibility studies of new opportunities to create value and transitioning successful pilots to scalable production implementations. \nDevelop integrations with other applications and services. \nDevelop automated testing pipelines.\nApplication release and second level support.\nStay up to date with the latest advancements in software engineering technologies. \nParticipate in Agile ceremonies with the team to execute on prioritized projects and features. \nWork closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, data scientists, and software engineers, to understand requirements and deliver AI-driven solutions. \nWhat you should have :\n5+ years hands-on coding and software design experience building robust and scalable software using Python, SQL, REST, TypeScript/JavaScript - React framework. \nExperience in building data intensive applications in a modern technology stack: Cloud services (AWS), data pipelines, SQL/No-SQL databases (graph databases is a plus) \nExperience in designing, architecting, and maintaining applications. \nExperience building and consuming web-based APIs. \nExperience with CI/CD environments and test-driven development leveraging a Version Control system. \nExcellent collaboration and communication skills for working with cross-functional teams. \nExperienced with developing automated testing strategies.\nUnderstanding of System Integration patterns. \nPreferred:\nExperience working with AWS Cloud \nExperience working in an Agile Methodology \nFamiliar in fields related to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science. \nKnowledge of Generative AI solutions and applications \nExperience with building, deploying, and managing docker images\nExperience working with Domino's data platform\nQualifications:\nCandidates are evaluated case-by-case but appreciate qualifications in quantitative, scientific and technology disciplines such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Analytics, Physics, and Bioinformatics.\nPrimary Skills:\nAgile Methodology, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Application Lifecycle Management Tools, Automated Software Testing, Automated Testing, AWS Data Pipeline, Business Value Creation, Cloud Computing, Collaborative Communications, Computer Science, Data Engineering, Data Pipelines, Data Science, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Engineering Software, Generative AI, React.js, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Testing\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 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.\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.\nAdditional location(s) Compensation Information:\nRequired Skills:\nAgile Application Development, Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Application Lifecycle Management Tools, Automated Software Testing, Automated Testing, AWS Data Pipeline, Cloud Computing, Collaborative Communications, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Graph Databases, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Testing, TypeScriptPreferred Skills:\nCurrent Employees apply HERE\nCurrent Contingent Workers apply HERE\nSecondary Language(s) Job Description:\n#MSDHYDIT\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:\n10/26/2026*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. 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