MSD Associate Director Technical Architect Data Analytics 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

240685880

• Be part of an organization driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that supports a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products

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Role Overview

As a Lead Technical Data and Analytics Architect, you will play a pivotal leadership role in shaping the future ofenterprise data and analytics portfolio. This position combines strategic technology leadership with hands-on technical. In addition to being a technical architect, you will lead a small team of 4 to 5 architects, driving collaboration and ensuring high-quality delivery across multiple product lines. You will create and implement strategic frameworks, ensure their adoption within product teams, and oversee the consistent management of technologies.

Your responsibilities will include creating capability and technology maps, innovation trend maps, reference architectures, architecture blueprints, and product positionings that align with customer needs andoverall strategy. This role requires a balance between visionary strategic thinking and direct involvement in technical problem-solving and delivery.

Strategic Leadership

• Develop andmaintaina cohesive architecture vision, aligning withour companybusinessobjectivesand industry trends.

• Provide leadership to a team of architects, mentoring and guiding them to achieve collective goals and deliverables.

• Foster a collaborative environment where innovation and best practices thrive.

Product Design and Integration

• Collaborate with product teams to design, develop, and integrate modular, scalable, and interoperable products.

• Oversee the creation and review of solution architectures to ensure alignment with organizational strategy.

Technology Leadership

• Drive the adoption ofcutting-edgetechnologies and best practices, ensuringour companyremainscompetitive and innovative.

• Establish and govern architectural frameworks, standards, and guidelines to ensure consistency and quality.

• This role will also lead a small high performing team of architects.

Framework Development and Governance

• Create capability and technology maps, reference architectures, innovation trend maps, and architecture blueprints and patterns.

• Ensure the consistent application of frameworks across product teams.

Hands-on Contribution

• participatein technical problem-solving, proof-of-concept development, and implementation activities.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership to support your team and deliver high-value outcomes.

• Partner with enterprise and product architects to ensure alignment andsynergyacross the organization.

• Engage with stakeholders to align architectural decisions with broader business goals.

What Should you have:

• Proven leadership experience, including managing and mentoring small technical teams.

• Deep technicalexpertisein data engineering, data management and governance, data science, data consumption and reporting, and cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Databricks, Dataiku,Matillion, DBT,PowerBI, ThoughtSpot, Collibra,Immuta).

• Strong understanding of data architecture principles, data modeling, and data integration techniques.

• in Generative AI technologies, including foundational knowledge of large language models (LLMs), fine-tuningGenAImodels, andleveragingframeworks such as Hugging Face, OpenAI, or similar tools to build enterprise-grade solutions.

• Experience integratingGenAIcapabilities into broader data and analytics ecosystems to enhance insights, decision-making, and automation.

• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

• A passion for innovation, with a demonstrated ability to deliver exceptional results.

• Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical contributions.

What we look for: