Data Strategy Innovation Analyst

Job Description

Data Strategy Innovation 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. 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 worlds greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centres 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 Centres 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 Centres.

Role Overview

• Design and implement Automation and Agentic AI systems to support data governance enablement and stewardship activities. This individual will be responsible for designing the solution using approved architecture patterns developing orchestration logic tool use and memory strategies. This will include developing last mile automation and AI capabilities to enable around data access management and automation
• Develop productionquality code for basic automation AI agents services and supporting infrastructure.
• Build agents capable of:
  • Executing multistep workflows
  • Interacting with enterprise data metadata and knowledge systems
  • Reasoning over policies standards and governance rules
  • Escalating decisions or exceptions appropriately
• Integrate LLMbased agents with existing data platforms governance tools catalogs document repositories and APIs.
• Apply modern software engineering best practices including modular design version control testing automation observability and CI/CD pipelines.

Deployment Operations & Scaling

• Package and deploy AI solutions into development test and production environments.
• Monitor agent behavior performance and outputs to ensure reliability traceability and policy compliance.
• Diagnose and remediate failures hallucinations workflow breaks or data quality dependencies.
• Refactor prototypes into scalable maintainable production services.
• Support the expansion of successful agents from teamlevel solutions to companywide platforms.

Data Governance & Responsible AI Engineering

• Engineer guardrails to enforce data governance privacy security and Responsible AI principles.
• Implement logging auditing explainability and versioning for AI agents and prompts.
• Ensure solutions comply with regulatory security and internal governance requirements.
• Collaborate with governance and legal partners to operationalize Responsible AI controls in code and architecture.

Enablement & Knowledge Management

• Develop agents that improve knowledge capture classification retrieval and reuse.
• Produce technical documentation architecture diagrams and runbooks for AI solutions.
• Enable other teams to adopt extend or integrate AI agents through reusable patterns and components.

What should you have

• Bachelors degree in computer science Software Engineering Data Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong handson software engineering experience with demonstrated delivery of production systems.
• 3 Years Experience developing LLMpowered or AIdriven applications including orchestration prompt engineering and tool integration.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g. Python TypeScript Java).
• Experience working with APIs microservices and cloudbased architectures.
• Familiarity with data management metadata data quality governance or knowledge systems.
• Ability to move from ambiguous problem statements to implemented running systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience building Agentic AI architectures using frameworks such as LangChain Semantic Kernel AutoGen or similar.
• Experience with enterprise data catalogs governance platforms or knowledge management systems.
• Cloud deployment experience (e.g. Azure AWS or GCP) including security and identity integration.
• Experience operationalizing AI: monitoring cost control reliability and model lifecycle management.
• Background in Responsible AI compliance engineering or AI risk mitigation.

Primary Skills

• AI & Software Engineering Excellence
• Agentic Workflow & Systems Design
• ProductionGrade Development & Operations
• Data Governance & PolicyAware Engineering
• Iterative Delivery & QuickWin Execution
• CrossFunctional Collaboration

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 bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the worlds 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 usand start making your impact today.

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