Senior Product Solution Architect, Data Science Products

Job Description

Our Marketing team are passionate about bringing our medicines and vaccines to our customers around the world. Through digital listening and patient analytics, we are able to understand our customers’ needs and strive to provide solutions to meet them.

For the senior product solution architect role, we seek a highly experienced professional with excellent communication skills and a proven track record. His/her responsibilities are to understand and articulate business vision, define and design product architecture solutions. Architect the operationalization of models, analytical products and identify appropriate pipelines for these models and products. Mentor teams to build effective solutions across organization and work with teams to build cohesive analytical products. Ensure that product and platform architectures are aligned with the company's mission and vision. Mentor technical staff to maintain a team-focused approach to achieving success and contribute to the broader initiatives.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Understand product vision and business capabilities to define product architectural solution.

• Perform design, development and support of existing and new products.

• Develop architectural and design principles to improve performance, capacity, and scalability of product.

• Work with Product Owners/Managers in planning and execution of new product releases.

• Consult with PO’s to clarify objectives and functional requirements for new or modified products.

• Work with domain experts, internal partners, product managers and product engineering teams for solutions.

• Maintain product roadmap and standards that assure product development projects optimally align with business objectives.

• Define product validation policies so as to deliver products that meet system and project expectations.

• Facilitate the creation, review, and sign off of project deliverables.

• Provide support for production escalations and problem resolution for customers.

• Assist product teams and work with IT teams/architects with issues needing technical expertise or complex systems knowledge.

• Develop broad knowledge about current and future product features.

• Analyze market segments and customer base to develop market solutions.

• Define product requirements that address market opportunities.

Minimum Education Requirements:

• Bachelors required, Masters, PhD preferred or equivalent experience in a quantitative field (Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, etc.).

Minimum Required Skills:

• Cloud Certifications AWS (Preferred).

• Experience with Dev/MLOps and CI/CD Tools.

• Experience in implementing and deploying Machine Learning solutions (using various models, such as Linear/Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machines, (Deep) Neural Networks, Hidden Markov Models, Conditional Random Fields, Topic Modeling, Game Theory, Mechanism Design, etc.).

• Background in statistical analysis and modeling (distributions, hypothesis testing, probability theory, etc.).

• Strong hands-on experience with statistical packages and ML libraries (e.g. R, Python scikit learn, Spark MLlib, etc.).

Minimum Preferred Skills:

• Background in effective data exploration and visualization (e.g. QuickSight, Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, etc.).

• Background in developing and debugging in one or more of the languages C/C++, Java, Scala, Python, or R.

• Minimum 10+ years of relevant work experience.

• Ability to work in cross functional teams.

Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.

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 …

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization. Together we will continue Inventing For Life, Impacting Lives while Inspiring Your Career Growth.

Invent. Impact. Inspire.

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Requisition ID:R115975