Associate Director, GSF DnA Information Architect

Job Description

Associate Director, GSF DnA Information Architect

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 the company 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.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a talented Information Architect to shape our data landscape. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement and manage information systems, championing best practices, and leveraging advanced technologies to enhance our data architecture. If you are passionate about data architecture and eager to make a significant impact, we invite you to apply.

What will you do in this role:

• Utilize advanced knowledge of information architecture principles to establish and enforce standards and practices across various capability areas such as data collection, ontology creation, data mapping, data modeling, and taxonomies.
• Apply technical and departmental knowledge to analyze the data landscape across the enterprise, assess the health and risks of the current state, and design projects that will enable our team to meet its goals.
• Grow the capabilities of an enterprise data marketplace, including data cataloguing, data discovery, and data governance.
• Mature company’s delivery and re-use of information assets, leveraging product management practices to offer “Data Products”
• Contribute to a master data management strategy, including entity definition and ongoing sustainment.
• Collaborate with information security, business, and IT stakeholders to implement an information access policy and rules of use.
• Discover, recommend, and implement enhancements to the enterprise Data Management architecture.
• Create and maintain Information Architecture deliverables and artifacts relevant for accountable architecture domain(s).
• Develops and executes data-driven strategies to optimize business performance, aligning systems capabilities with strategic goals.
• Defines, prioritizes, and manages data requirements, ensuring traceability and controlled changes in line with governance standards.
• Present strategic data architecture solutions to executives, translating complex challenges into actionable insights and driving enterprise-wide data integration and governance decisions.
• Stay current with Information technology trends and introduce these best practices to the company.

What Should you have:

• Bachelor’s degree concentration in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 12+ years of experience spanning IT disciplines including Data Modeling, Databases, Master Data Management, Business Process Modeling, and 5+ years in Information Architecture.
• Proficiency in developing information usage/decision making use cases, information models, and quality assessments.
• Expertise in analyzing, designing, and developing solutions based on current and future state solutions and reference architectures.
• Knowledge of enterprise technology capabilities and how they can be reused to provide end-user and application development services.
• Familiarity with information architecture frameworks, processes, and technology that provide insights to address critical data challenges.
• Proficiency in data modeling tools (SAP Power Designer/ER Studio) and working knowledge of data management tools & related platforms (dbt, Matillion, Collibra, Immuta, Informatica MDM) for designing, governing, and optimizing data solutions.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms and data integration tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to foresee future needs and challenges.
• Strong leadership skills including but not limited to strategic planning, entrepreneurship, innovation, and business savviness.
• Proven track record in coaching and development, talent growth, and execution excellence.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with AI/Data & Analytics functions, preferably in Life Sciences or similar regulated industries.
• Prior experience in Data Product implementation at scale.
• Advanced degree in a related field.
• Certification in data management, TOGAF or other architecture-related credentials are a plus.

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, we have been inventing for lives, 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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Required Skills:

Emerging Technologies, Methods and Tools, Requirements Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Strategic Planning, System Designs, Technical Advice

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

06/23/2026

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