Scrum Master, Data Context Layer
Merck · Hyderabad, India ·
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- 3+ years
Merck · Hyderabad, India ·
Scrum Master to lead agile teams building Merck’s data infrastructure, coordinating sprints and removing blockers for data context layer development.
Job Description
The Opportunity
Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.
A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in the growth, success, and well-being of our people to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging, to managing critical emergencies. Together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.
This role is part of a broader enterprise initiative to establish a Data Context Layer (DCL) — a foundational capability designed to provide consistent, reusable, and scalable context across enterprise data products.
The DCL is intended to address challenges related to data fragmentation, lack of shared semantics, and inconsistent interpretation of data across systems and products. It establishes a unified layer for representing context, relationships, and meaning, enabling downstream products to operate with greater consistency, interoperability, and intelligence.
In addition, the DCL plays a critical role in enabling agentic AI capabilities across the enterprise by providing the structured context and semantic grounding required for intelligent agents to operate reliably. This includes ensuring that agent-driven workflows and decisions are based on consistent, governed, and interpretable data context, reducing risks associated with fragmentation, ambiguity, and lack of control.
Within this initiative, we are seeking a Scrum Master to support agile delivery teams building enterprise capabilities on AWS cloud technologies and TIMBR-like tools. This role will help teams deliver platform, data, semantic, and context-serving solutions efficiently by facilitating agile practices, removing impediments, and improving delivery flow across product, engineering, and architecture stakeholders.
The ideal candidate has experience supporting technical teams in complex enterprise environments and is comfortable working with cloud, data, and platform delivery teams. Familiarity with data context, semantic systems, ontologies, agentic AI, prompt engineering, and context engineering is preferred, as the teams may be delivering capabilities that support AI-enabled and context-driven use cases.
What should you have
Success in this role means:
Who we are:
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been 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:
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.
Required Skills:
Adaptability, Adaptability, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Architecture, Azure Devops, Cloud Technology, Conflict Resolution, Context Mapping, Contract Management, Creativity, Data Pipelines, Enterprise Agile Delivery, Enterprise Data, GxP Validation, Information Systems, Infrastructure Project Management, Manufacturing Operations, New Product Development, People Management, Personal Initiative, Production Facilities, Product Management, Project Planning, Prompt Engineering, Regulatory Compliance {+ 2 more}
Preferred Skills:
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Regular
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Job Posting End Date:
08/14/2026
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