Specialist, Data Streaming Platform Engineer

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**Job Description** **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 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 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 looking for a Senior Engineer, Data Streaming Platform to build, optimize, and scale our enterprise data streaming capabilities across Confluent Cloud-Kafka, Databricks Structured Streaming, Delta Live Tables (DLT), and connectors across various data sources and targets. This is a hands-on platform engineering role where you'll evaluate new features, develop reusable components, drive cost and performance optimizations, build automation, and explore AI-assisted productivity improvements. You'll partner closely with engineers, architects, stakeholders, and vendor support to deliver scalable, reliable, and standards-based solutions. While data streaming is the primary focus, you'll work within a broader ecosystem that includes platforms like dbt, Airflow, and other data integration and compute tools. Adaptability and willingness to learn across technologies are essential. ****What Will You Do In This Role**** - Design, build, and maintain streaming platform capabilities across Confluent Cloud Kafka and Databricks - Build and support connectors and integrations across multiple data sources and targets - Evaluate new platform features and perform POCs/prototypes - Drive cost optimization and right-sizing initiatives - Develop automation, reusable components, and accelerators - Identify and apply AI-assisted productivity improvements to engineering workflows - Integrate streaming capabilities with other platforms in the ecosystem - Partner with stakeholders to understand requirements and provide technical guidance - Collaborate with architects, vendor support, and peer engineers - Lead and mentor engineers through design discussions and implementation guidance - Adhere to and promote engineering standards and best practices ****What Should You Have**** **Primary Skill** Confluent Cloud Kafka | Databricks Structured Streaming | Delta Live Tables - Strong platform engineering or data platform engineering experience - Deep experience with Confluent Cloud Kafka or similar event streaming platforms - Experience with Databricks Structured Streaming and/or Delta Live Tables (DLT) - Proficiency in Python - Experience with CI/CD, GitHub Actions, and Terraform - Strong understanding of AWS concepts and services - Solid understanding of general networking concepts - Experience developing reusable components, accelerators, and automation tooling - Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills - Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills - General knowledge of data integration and compute platforms ****Preferred Skills**** - Experience with dbt, Airflow, or other data integration ecosystem tools - Experience with streaming connectors, schema evolution, and event-driven architectures - Platform scaling, workload tuning, and observability for streaming systems - Familiarity with testing automation tools such as Xray and Robot Framework - Familiarity with AI agent development or AI-enabled engineering workflows - Experience engaging with enterprise vendors and support organizations - Experience mentoring engineers or guiding technical design decisions ****Soft Skills**** - Clear and effective communicator across technical and non-technical audiences - Ability to lead engineers and guide design solutions - Strong stakeholder management and relationship building - Comfortable engaging with architects and vendor support teams - Ownership mindset with accountability for outcomes - Commitment to standards, best practices, and engineering quality - Adaptable, curious, and eager to learn new platforms - Strong analytical thinking and structured problem solving ****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 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 sci