Technical Lead - Cloud Data Engineering - Snowflake / DBT
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 5, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 19, 2026. Merck Group scores B on the Alion truth index.
Work Your Magic with us!
Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans - so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
Your role:
Ready to shape the future? As Technical Lead Cloud Data Engineering, you own the technical direction of our Snowflake- and DBT-based data products from design to delivery. You are equally at home reviewing a data model, coaching a colleague, or presenting a design decision to senior management. You guide a cross-functional team, set engineering standards, and translate R&D business requirements into robust, scalable solutions - all while fostering a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous learning.
Your key responsibilities:
- Define end-to-end design of cloud data products; establish standards for data quality, security, GxP compliance, and CI/CD; document decisions as Design Decision Records (DDRs).
- Oversee implementation by internal and external engineers; provide expertise on Snowflake performance tuning, DBT pipeline design, SQL optimization, and Python-based processing.
- Mentor engineers at all levels; manage cross-team dependencies; communicate risks, trade-offs, and status clearly to all stakeholders.
- Scope and plan engineering work; balance feature delivery with technical debt; drive CI/CD adoption via Azure DevOps and automated data testing.
- Actively contribute to team growth through recruiting, onboarding, and knowledge sharing.
In return, we offer a high-impact role at the forefront of Healthcare R&D data innovation, a strong international engineering culture, flexible working models, and the purpose-driven environment of a global science and technology company.
Who you are:
Leadership & Mindset
- Accountable for team outcomes; leads by example and enables others to grow.
- Pragmatic: balances engineering excellence with real-world delivery constraints.
- Clear communicator across technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience & Qualifications
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent.
- 8+ years of hands-on data engineering experience, including significant technical lead responsibility.
- Deep expertise in Snowflake (architecture, performance tuning, data sharing) and DBT (pipeline design, testing, job automation).
- Strong proficiency in data modelling: Data Vault 2.0, OLAP/OLTP, and semantic ontologies.
- Advanced SQL and solid Python skills for data transformation and system integration.
- Proven CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps and Git; IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation is a plus.
- Familiarity with AWS data services (Glue, Step Functions, Athena, Lambda) is advantageous.
- Experience with GxP-compliant data products in a regulated (pharma/healthcare) environment is a strong plus.
- Business-fluent English (written and spoken)
Lo que ofrecemos: Somos mentes curiosas que provienen de una amplia gama de antecedentes, perspectivas y experiencias de vida. Creemos que esta variedad impulsa la excelencia y la innovación, fortaleciendo nuestra capacidad para liderar en ciencia y tecnología. Estamos comprometidos a crear acceso y oportunidades para que todos se desarrollen y crezcan a su propio ritmo. Únete a nosotros para construir una cultura de inclusión y pertenencia que impacte a millones y empodere a todos para defender el progreso humano.
¡Aplica ahora y conviértete en parte de un equipo que se dedica a Despertar el Descubrimiento y Elevar a la Humanidad!