Merck & Co Hiring for Product Technical Lead (Imaging) – Disease Biology & Pharm Tox job in Cambridge Full Time

Job Description

Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.

The Research and Development Sciences (RaDS) value team in R&D IT brings together product management, engineering, and data science expertise to enable data and technology products and services that accelerate our scientists’ ability to discover and develop innovative medicines that change the course of human health. Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We partner internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation and advance the drug discovery and development pipeline.

As a Product Technical Lead within the Disease Biology and PharmTox Product Line, you will enable IMAGING capabilities that help scientists generate hypotheses and draw rapid conclusions by interrogating target biology and its relationship to human disease and pharmacological interventions.

This will be accomplished through cross-functional teams that bring together imaging science, technologies, capabilities, and talent to create products that deliver high impact business value, insight, and a fantastic user experience to scientists. Through your role, you will help define the standard of excellence in technical product management within our organization.

Additionally, you will be accountable for identifying opportunities to grow and improve the product technical landscape while simultaneously ensuring consistent performance of existing applications. You will use your knowledge of these imaging products to promote their meaningful use by giving product demos, sharing user stories, and showing the connection of our data and technology products to our mission to serve patients.

Primary Tasks:

• Partner with Imaging Product Manager in the understanding, prioritization and development of strategically aligned solutions which deliver maximum business value.
• Deliver forward looking imaging technology solutions by proactively tracking technology trends, vendor marketplace and upcoming business needs
• Manage the product technology roadmap and convey related IT strategy and governance
• Act as the single point of contact for all technical matters within the assigned product
• Own product technology solutions from concept to retirement, while striving to increase ROI and reduce financial investment
• Manage a team of cross functional technical resources assigned to multiple squads within the product
• Develop and convey accurate and realistic project plans, resource estimates and timelines in alignment with prioritized business requirements
• Ensure all systems are designed, built, and operated in an SDLC compliant manner and promote the effective use of IT standards and tools
• Demonstrate an eagerness to learn drug discovery & development processes and regulatory requirements as necessary to solve problems

–Education Minimum:

• Minimum of a B.A./B.S. in a scientific or technical discipline (such as computer science, engineering, biology, chemistry, etc.). Pharmaceutical experience preferred but not mandatory.

–Qualifications:-

• 8+ years in IT with ability to architect, engineer, optimize and maintain software solutions to solve complex problems encountered by scientists that leverage imaging tools (high content imaging, spatial omics, medical imaging, digital pathology, flow cytometry) as their primary means of experimentation
• 5+ years of experience in designing and deploying custom and off the shelf pharmaceutical imaging solutions for in vivo and in vitro imaging
• 5+ years of latest hands-on experience with AWS and HPC (high performance computing) services
• 3+ years of experience working with Engineering and Product Management teams to initiate and drive large scale strategic initiatives in a pharmaceutical organization or CRO.
• Demonstrated ability to operate and successfully deliver value in an agile fashion.
• 3+ years of experience working in a matrixed environment with geographically dispersed teams including company staff, contractors, and vendors
• Strong communication and leadership skills with ability to influence strategic thinking

Desired Technical Skills:

• Experience in Imaging tools like Signals Imaging Artist, Halo Link, Concentriq, Cell Profiler, Siemens Syngo Carbon, Imaris, and others.
• Has Cloud solution architect and/or Developer certification
• Experience in Python and Perl
• Experience in developing and deploying containerized applications (like Docker)
• Has performed installation and configurations of commercial-off-the-shelf enterprise applications in both Windows and Linux environments.
• Hands on experience with application development and relational databases
• API development and data integration experience is a plus
• Experience operating and delivering in a GxP compliant manner
• Has used Jira and Confluence in the management and tracking of agile projects
• Experience with ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) or other industry standard tools for test script management and approvals
• Experience with DevOps approach to application development and lifecycle management

–Desired Business Aligned Experience:

• Experience in Digital Pathology (specifically imaging)
• Experience in Medical Imaging
• Experience in Spatial Omics
• Understanding of molecular biology and Omics (genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics)

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Expected salary range:
$130,960.00 – $206,200.00

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Employee Status:
Regular

Relocation:
Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:
No

Travel Requirements:
25%

Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid, On-Site

Shift:
1st – Day

Valid Driving License:
No

Hazardous Material(s):
N/A

Requisition ID:R247110