Digital Health Architect (All Genders)

Work Your Magic with us!

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

The Devices & Connected Solutions Engineering department’s role is to best understand the patients and physician unmet needs, to develop the product roadmap, identify new potential solutions, guarantee proper and timely execution of the development including design control activities, define list of preferred development partners and drive partners until product delivery and market launch. Team members are the subject matter experts on our products in the fields of digital health, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, electronic and software engineering, and human factors engineering.

Your role: Define, develop and deliver market-leading digital health solutions. Be responsible for the system architecture, design and integration of multiple applications and services. Be working with the business internal stakeholders to define technical solutions to problems, using her/his experience in distributed applications, cloud, networking, modern clients. Contribute to the technical definition of Merck’s digital solutions strategy & portfolio, to ensure consistency across platforms and therapeutic areas. Conduct product development activities involving external partners, with a focus on delivering the right products on time, on budget and on quality until market launch and coordinate team members towards the project’s goal. Report internally the progresses of the product development to the Core Team and to the LT from Devices and Connected Solutions Engineering, as well as key stakeholders including Global Digital Health team.

Who you are:

• Education in Computer Science
• Proven technical expertise in software architecture & digital health
• More than 8 years of experience leading software development activities, ideally with an experience in regulated environment.
• Strong background in application development with extensive knowledge of key frameworks and platforms
• Proven experience managing external partners for the development of large projects
• Ability to interact with senior management in matrix organization
• Project management skills (management of partners using Agile methodology)
• Proven experience in developing a product & portfolio development strategy (strategic directions for SW platforms, support business development, identify strategic needs, ...)
• Strong communication skills, emotional intelligence as well as ability to navigate into complex organization and create networks is a key asset
• Business acumen is a key asset
• Business fluent in English

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and believe that it drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of our diverse team!