Senior Manager, Cybersecurity Engineering

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Senior Manager, Cybersecurity Engineering

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 organization 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 our companys’ 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

Reporting to the Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) Product Manager, this position serves as a senior technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) and developer.  They will be responsible for the delivery of IGA services enterprise-wide.  The role requires a technically strong individual who is resourceful and highly self-motivated. The successful candidate should have experience working in the IAM field in a large, global enterprise environment and possess broad experience working with numerous technologies typically used in identity governance.  Additionally, the candidate will have strong communication skills that allows them to successfully work with stakeholders in diverse roles ranging from IT infrastructure to individual end-users. 

What will you do in this role:

• Develop, implement, and optimize solutions for identity management processes, including lifecycle management access certification, and access fulfillment ensuring efficient and secure management of user identities and access rights.
• Lead efforts to evaluate and implement new technologies and integrations with other solutions that derive additional value from current investments.
• Considerable knowledge of industry best practices and emerging trends integrating relevant advancements into the team's roadmap, process, and deliverables.
• Partner with infrastructure, security and applications teams on service issues, escalations and support transitions and enforce identity policies and standards.
• Foster compliance by providing guidance on the design and implementation of identity solutions to meet organizational security requirements.
• Mentor and develop team members, fostering a high-performing and collaborative work environment drive by Agile principles and practices.

What should you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or any technology stream.
• 7+ years of experience of relevant experience in implementing, developing, or operating an enterprise Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solution, such as SailPoint Identity Security Cloud/Identity IQ or Oracle Identity Governance.
• Managing IT solution deployments through the full software development lifecycle
• Relational database design, including SQL programming using PL/SQL and/or Oracle, MySQL
• Experienced in the secure and scalable software Java / JavaScript / Python development.
• Good working knowledge of the Agile framework and JIRA to drive roadmap execution.
• Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks and compliance standards related to identity management.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholder and able to discuss technical ideas in business-friendly language.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Prior experience with the Global enterprise environment and business applications or similar large healthcare environment
• Demonstrated understanding of identity-related NIST standards (e.g. 800-63-3)
• Working knowledge and understanding of ServiceNow for Change, Incident and Knowledge Management
• CISSP, Security+ or similar industry certification

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 life, 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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