Merck Hiring for Director IT Data and Analytics at Nashville, Tennessee Full Time

Job Description

Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.

Data driven decision making is a strategic imperative across the company and this role will be critical to realizing that vision. As part of the Animal Health (AH) IT Technology team focused on architecture and cross-functional service delivery, this position will be responsible for the AH IT Data and Analytics team at the center of a division-wide DnA Community of Practice. The DnA CoP includes members from AH IT Value teams and their business partners. The DnA team will serve the community, delivering foundational capabilities including data architecture, data science services, visualization engineering and agile portfolio prosecution.

Responsibilities:

Lead a team of data, data science and visualization architect and engineering professionals

• Actively coach the team and nurture an environment where team members can develop their skills and grow their careers.

• Ensure the right organization design and team are in place to deliver against plans.

• Serve the team by dealing with impediments and empowering decision making at the right levels.

• Manage multiple resources and projects concurrently to ensure commitments are met.

• Provide accurate work estimates and oversee delivery against budget.

• Ensure strong operational processes are in place to deliver across all areas of responsibility.

• Lead the architecture, engineering, and delivery of an enterprise data lake strategy on the cloud.

• Evangelize the value of data and analytics services.

• Collaborate effectively with AH IT Value and Enterprise Architecture teams to optimize the reuse of assets, return on investment and total cost of ownership.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field, OR an equivalent combination of education, certification, and experience

• 10 + years’ experience in data and analytics architecture, engineering, and delivery.

• 5 + years’ experience in team leadership within the analytics space.

• 2 + years of experience with cloud technologies and enterprise data lakes.

• Experienced in Agile.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in implementing DnA op models that enable the business to be data driven.

• AWS certification a plus.

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, 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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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Remote Work

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Number of Openings:

1

Requisition ID: R147388