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Merck · 6 hours ago

Senior Analytics Platform Engineer

USA - Texas - Austin (Lavaca WeWork)

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$117K/yr - $184K/yr

5+ years exp

Merck is a leading global healthcare company, and they are seeking a Senior Analytics Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain data platforms with a focus on Databricks. The role requires collaboration with engineers and product managers to create efficient solutions and ensure alignment with organizational goals.

BiotechnologyHealth CareMedicalPharmaceutical

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

Participate in defining the platform standards and architecture patterns primarily for the enterprise-wide implementation of Databricks platform

Author, review, and maintain Terraform modules and state management for multi‑account/multi‑environment deployments

Implement reusable and repeatable environment provisioning and configuration

Create and maintain clear documentation: platform design, Infrastructure as Code patterns, operational runbooks, best practices regarding coding, security and compliance

Develop, verify, test, document, amend and refactor CI/CD pipelines and the platform configurations for deployment in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams

Integrate platform with data governance tooling (catalogs, lineage, access controls)

Utilize system life cycle working practices for platform components delivery. Deploy automation to achieve well-engineered and secure outcome

Contribute to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas. Participate in evaluation of alternative solutions and approaches to the current architecture and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability

Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the Product manager

Participate in planning, execution, and delivery of the platform ensuring alignment with both functional, product and company goals

Qualification

Databricks PlatformTerraformAWSCI/CDData EngineeringDevOps toolsAgileSoftware DevelopmentSystem IntegrationMultidisciplinary Collaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream

5+ years of hands-on experience working with IaC Terraform, SQL and databases, Analytics platforms, DevOps tools and REST API

Excellent knowledge of Databricks as a user and architect, incl. network patters of how it is deployed as SaaS solution

Excellent Cloud knowledge, ideally AWS certified with good understanding of AWS core service like EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, VPC networking, Security Groups, subnets, IAM roles/policies, Route 53, Transit Gateways, Load Balancing, Lambda, KMS

Deep knowledge of DevOps tools and practices (like GitHub, GitHub Actions) for code versioning and deployment

Understanding modern product development principles – Agile, test-driven development, UX, design thinking

Knowledge of development practices such as infrastructure observability, continuous integration/continuous deployment - CI/CD, containerization

Some experience with networking principles is necessary