Associate Director, IT Architecture

Company: Merck
Location: Rahway
Posted on: April 11, 2025

Job Description:

Job DescriptionResponsibilities:

• Work cross-functionally with a variety of areas to maximize the value the Operations Data Layer provides to the organization, that includes helping to facilitate and comprehend requirements, defining solution functionality, designing solutions as well as developing and enhancing solutions over time.
• Perform as a Team Lead who is hands-on and utilize demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining the central data repository in support of multiple species for all Business Intelligence needs.
• Direct and oversee the work of other team members.
• Provide Data Engineering Support, that entails: Provide Requirements, Data Validation, UAT and work with IT to build data views for use by all downstream applications like Dashboards, Rebate data from Proagrica, RPA BOT Automation, CABU Partnership App (Celeritas), MWI EDI Pilot, AERA Days of Supply, ASLAN Catalyst dashboard etc.; Provide requirements to IT for building backend objects that are required for downstream business groups like CABU and Livestock Business analysts / Pricing team; Partner with IT on building and maintaining the self-service operations data layer that acts as a central repository for all Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence needs.
• Responsible for Dashboards and Reporting, that entails: Support dashboards in self-service mode - Planning / Development & Production Enhancement Requirements / User training / Co-ordination to align with business priorities; Perform UAT, Provide feedback to IT for seamless migration of dashboards from On Premise to Cloud; Develop Ad hoc business reports for Sales, Marketing, Finance and other teams through Alteryx from Cloud.
• Responsible for Data Governance and Monitoring, that entails: Partner with IT to Define data governance standards and build business / technical lineage with Collibra; Define Business Terms / Acronyms / Processes / various dash- boards.
• Link above business assets for traceability / lineage and make them available for business consumption; Monitor data quality report and work proactively with IT on data issues as part of daily reconciliation process; Check the accuracy of the master and operational data which impacts dashboard reporting.
• Responsible for Data Management, that entails: Maintain Standard pricing across all species at multiple Units of Measure and load all Special pricing programs across species by UIN from PROS; Develop PL/SQL Stored Procedures and Functions for automating the loading and validation of all Master data entities in the centralized Master Data Repository; Develop and execute automated scripts to provide data and context to incoming field requests from Salesforce system; Be accountable for Master data updates and enhancements especially with data shared with external partners like Proagrica and Celeritas.
• Responsible for Database Development and Reporting, that entails: Build Database views for master data and sales reporting via internal applications and data visualization tools; Create and automate SQL scripts for providing reports/ data to internal (Sales, Marketing, Finance, Audit)/external partners for Margin/Rebate calculation and Pricing Portal for Distribution; Develop scripts for generating Gross to Net files for SAP upon Pricing updates. Work collaboratively across teams to design and build solutions with the IT department.
• Provide guidance on solution requirements and solution recommendations.
• Manage the implementation of new enhancements.
• Prioritize tasks and activities for provisioning data via Dashboards or other backend data views.
• Assist other Spotfire team members to develop reports and dashboards to assist the business Serve as a subject matter expert.
• Remain current on new features and functionality of the Spotfire product line and provide recommendations for process improvements.
• Evaluate those capabilities for their business benefit.Requirements:
• Must have a Bachelor's degree (or US equivalent) in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Must have 15 years of relevant work experience. Experience working in tools and applications such as SQL Loader, Toad, Workbench for AWS Redshift, SQL Developer for Oracle; and experience in Animal Health industry including business knowledge of EDI / AHN processes also required.
• Must have ability to explore/evaluate various BI tools and Integration of tools for different business use cases.
• Must have ability to build Spotfire and Power BI Dashboards; ability to work independently and within a team and direct the resolution of highly complex or unusual business problems; and ability to facilitate continuous improvement efforts collaboratively with team and peers.
• Proficiency in using Programming Languages such as SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle DDL, Unix Shell Scripts required.
• Must have knowledge of Oracle Databases like 11G and 12G; proficient in Data Modeling tools like Erwin; and exposure to Windows, Linux, and Unix Operating Systems.
• Excellent communication, relationship and leadership skills are required.
• Must possess strong troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving skills balanced with a creative mindset.
• Must be a self-starter and be able to handle multiple tasks and priorities.
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