Job Description
Specialist, Software Engineer – Finance IT
The Opportunity
- Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
- Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
- Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
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 the company 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 to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in 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. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.
Role Overview:
We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Finance IT organization and work closely with Treasury stakeholders in a global, regulated environment. Our team supports critical business processes related to cash, liquidity, FX, and financial operations through reliable and secure technology solutions.
This role is a hands‑on individual contributor position requiring prior experience in Treasury application environment and strong technical depth in close collaboration with Treasury stakeholders.
As a Software Engineer, you will design, build, and support enterprise‑grade solutions used by Treasury business teams. You will collaborate closely with Treasury and other Finance stakeholders, product owners, architects, platform teams, and external partners to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable systems.
What will you do in this role:
- Design, develop, and enhance applications supporting Treasury business processes.
- Deliver features, enhancements, and defect fixes aligned with the product backlog.
- Implement and support Treasury Management Systems (TMS) and related integrations with ERP platforms and external applications and financial institutions.
- Build and support enterprise integrations, including messaging‑based, file‑based, and API‑driven interfaces.
- Collaborate on product lifecycle activities, including upgrades, licensing considerations, and vendor‑supported solutions.
- Apply modern software engineering and DevSecOps practices to ensure solution quality and operational stability.
- Participate in code reviews, testing, and production support activities.
- Collaborate effectively across Finance, IT, architecture, and support organizations.
What Should you have:
Education Level:
- Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field.
Required Skills:
- 3+ years plus implementation experience with one or more TMS applications in a multi-national corporate environment.
- Good understanding and exposure to Treasury business processes and knowledge of accounting and experience supporting treasury business users.
- Deep knowledge of Treasury Management Systems (TMS) and related interfaces to internal and external applications.
- Proven experience delivering and supporting complex system integrations.
- Strong hands‑on software engineering background with expertise in one or more software development stacks.
- Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills.
Preferred Skills:
- Strong knowledge of Git or other Source Code Configuration Management (SCCM) tools.
- Experience with AWS or other cloud providers.
- Exposure to data engineering or analytical use cases in a Treasury context.
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms and tools such as S3, Athena, Matillion, and Databricks.
- Experience supporting reporting or data‑driven enhancements.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery models and DevSecOps practices.
Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.
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 inventing for lives, 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:
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.
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Required Skills:
Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Testing
Preferred Skills:
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Job Posting End Date:
05/19/2026
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