Spcialist, Software Engineering

Job Description

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 organization 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. Join a team that is passionate about using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making and create 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 company's 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 ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in the 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. 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:

We are seeking a Specialist Platform Engineer - BPM Platforms (Grafana/Appian) to join our HAI Platform Operations group within the Digital Platform Services group under the Global Technology Organization.

As the Specialist, Appian/Grafana Platform Operations (R2), you will deliver dedicated, hands-on operational support for our enterprise Appian platform, with a focus on monitoring ensuring high performance, stability, and data reliability across the organization. You will take the lead on critical configuration and deployment activities within both the Appian and Celonis Process Modeling (CPM) environments, ensuring seamless operation. Operating with significant day-to-day autonomy under broad supervision, you will also expand your technical scope by providing valuable back-up support for our enterprise Celonis platform. You will collaborate closely with Appian and Celonis engineering and Appian application teams, to troubleshoot complex issues, and maintain robust, high-performing platform capabilities that drive digital efficiency.

What will you do in this role

• Provide hands on operational support for monitoring Appian and Celonis platforms.

• Provide Grafana Engineering and Configuration support from Appian and Celonis platforms.

• Provide backup support for Appian and Celonis platforms.

• Collaborate closely with monitoring teams.

• Transform raw operational, telemetry, and business process data into actionable, high-performance visual dashboards and proactive alerting workflows using Grafana.

• Build and standardize an automated framework using Nobl9 to measure real-world user experience, protect error budgets, and automate reliability alerts.

• Provide secondary operational support to maintain high availability performance, and rapid incident remediation across Appian Cloud and Celonis environments (Dev, Test, Stage, Prod).

• Collaborating closely with technology partners (e.g., Appian, Celonis, AWS) to manage licensing, roadmaps, and support escalation paths.

• Drive global operational excellence collaborating with cross-functional technical teams including; Product, Platform Engineering, Application Operations and Infrastructure groups.

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What Should you have:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent work experience.

• Hands on practical experience with Grafana and Nobl9.

• Familiarity with Appian platform and Celonis CPM or Symbio administration.

• Practical experience with public cloud platforms, Preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Networking, Compute, storage and Security.

• Familiarity with Python scripting language.

Primary Skills:

Grafana and Python

Secondary Skills:

AWS, Appian and Celonis

Preferred:

• Experience working in highly regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, pharmaceutical GxP, financial services SOX) is a plus.
• At least 3 to 5 years of hands-on experience with Grafana.
• Appian Administration certification or 3 years Appian administration experience.
• Experience with Celonis Cloud platform (EMS/CPM).
• Familiarity with broader monitoring tools, such as Dynatrace, Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar monitoring/logging solutions

This role represents an exceptional opportunity to lead and influence the future of BPM platforms within our organization. If you're passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technology to accelerate healthcare innovation and thrive in a strategic leadership role, we invite you to apply!

Who we are

We are known as well-known org Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, 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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