Specialist, Data Analyst

Job Description

Specialist, Data Analyst

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 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 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.

Job Description:

• Responsible for understanding data and descriptive analysis, performing relevant activities across all project phases (including source data ingest, data modeling and preparation, and data wrangling directly in reporting tools).
• Explores and wrangles data to define necessary data processing rules to support insights needs.
• Builds analyses that support business goals based on understanding of the customer/stakeholder's business needs/ priorities and helps to build analyses that support business goals.
• Use of AI to help with data analysis and model creation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Mines and analyzes data from disparate databases/sources to drive optimization and improvement.
• Understands the complexity/dependencies between multiple teams, platforms (people, technologies).
• Communicates intensively with other platform/competencies to understand new trends and methodologies being implemented/considered within the company ecosystem.
• Appreciates the customer/stakeholder's business needs/priorities and helps to build analyses that support our business goals.
• Establishes and manages the close relationship with customers/stakeholders.
• Accountable for ensuring delivery analyses with high quality standards, timeliness, compliance and excellent user experience.
• Contributes to innovative experiments, specifically to idea generation, idea incubation and/or experimentation, identifying tangible and measurable criteria.
• Conducts profiling, standardization and harmonization to collect business rules.
• Queries data to identify patterns and/or anomalies.
• Support testing efforts.
• Develop optimization models.
• Manage business testing and validation of insights.

What should you have

• Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• 3+ years of developing data pipelines, Data analysis, Data Modelling, Power BI data infrastructure.
• Demonstrated expertise in delivering large-scale information management technology solutions encompassing data integration and self-service analytics enablement.
• Experienced in software/data engineering practices (including versioning, release management, deployment of datasets, agile & related software tools).
• Strong working knowledge of at least one large-scale data processing technology (e.g., High-performance computing, distributed computing), databases, and underlying technology (cloud or on-prem environments, containerization, distributed storage & databases)
• Strong working knowledge of at least one Reporting/Insight generation technology
• Knowledge in Cloud (Good to have)
• Data access in cloud and some basic knowledge
• Good interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).
• Proven record of delivering high-quality results.
• Product and customer-centric approach.
• Innovative thinking, experimental mindset.

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, 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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