Associate Specialist, Data Engineer Fellowship (Hiring Our Heroes) (Hybrid)

Job Requirements
Fellowship Opportunity:
We are excited to be a sponsor of Hiring our Heroes and proud to offer transitioning service members a unique opportunity to gain valuable professional experience through our 12-week fellowship program.
During your fellowship with our company, you will have the chance to collaborate with our Veterans Leadership Network and receive support from various stakeholders within the organization. To ensure your success, each fellow is paired with a buddy who will provide guidance, mentorship, and different perspectives. Additionally, you will have access to a career development advisor who will offer support and guidance in managing your career.
As a fellow, you will be part of a Cohort consisting of other transitioning service members. This will enable you to engage in weekly touchpoints, attend educational sessions, and receive direction from our Veteran Talent Program Lead throughout the Fellowship. Our primary objective is to provide you with mentoring, networking opportunities, and exposure to help facilitate a successful transition into a full-time position within our company.
With our generous military-friendly policies, we've received accolades from several organizations such as GI Jobs, Military Times EDGE, and Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR). Consider a future with us and discover an employer who will foster your best work as you continue to strive for the well-being of others.
Who we are ...
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., 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 integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, and teamwork 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.
Overview:
Our ability to compete and win in an ever more competitive animal health industry is highly dependent upon effectively harnessing data to drive decision making across the enterprise whether bioinformatics in drug discovery, batch yield modeling in manufacturing, automation of forecasting and supply chain planning, personalization of eMarketing campaigns or the monetization of connected animal information. We are truly on the cusp of an amazing breakthrough... a chance to lead not only the animal health industry, but industry in general, in creating a true enterprise-wide data management and analytics platform as part AHIT JEDI initiative (Joint Enterprise Data and Infrastructure). You will be playing a critical role in these spaces today ingesting, managing and transforming business critical data and generating visualizations and insights, machine learning models and AI driven processes across the data domains powering our R&D, manufacturing, commercial and enterprise business processes.
Merck Animal Health IT focuses on leveraging information technology to enhance and optimize various aspects of the animal health industry. This includes developing and maintaining software applications, systems, and infrastructure to support research and development, manufacturing, sales and marketing, supply chain management, and regulatory compliance. AH JEDI is to address current data challenges and issues as we have forged forward building data-centric solutions. It is critical that we band together to Win as One Team to eliminate silos, engage the business, clarify strategy, select technologies and scale overall efforts.
Successful candidates will be able to work independently as well as proactively collaborate with colleagues.
Primary responsibilities will include :
• Assisting in the design, implementation, and optimization of data systems, data lakes and workflows, to ensure efficient data extraction, loading and transformation (ELT) processes.
• Ensuring that high quality of data, data pipelines, data ingestion, and data integration processes
• Managing the infrastructure required to support and operate data pipelines in production.
• Developing automated workflows, pipelines, and scripts for seamless and efficient deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of data solutions.
• Implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices for data and solutions.
• Building monitoring systems to track the performance and health of deployed data and solutions. Setting up alerts and notifications to detect and respond to anomalies or issues in real-time. Collecting and analyzing relevant data to identify potential improvements or necessary data processes.
• Utilizing a strong understanding of SQL and programming languages like Python, knowledge of cloud platforms, such as AWS, and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and data engineering best practices.
You will be part of a diverse, cross-functional team of individuals who execute our enterprise cloud platform. The Fellowship will include progressive on-the-job training and operational project assignments under the direction of Director of Data & Analytics Strategy.
Your Fellowship Project
You will partner with AH JEDI team members to develop and formalize data engineering processes.
The fellowship intends to:
• Develop deeper understanding of the cloud computing
• Develop an understanding of data engineering and DataOps
• Develop an understanding of the systems and tools critical to cloud-based solution development
• Participate/Lead in team meetings to develop an understanding of the different skills and expertise of the cross functional members
Benefits of Fellowship
• Mentoring & networking opportunities within and beyond AHIT
• Exposure to Senior level positions within AHIT
• Hands-on experience in the modern cloud technology, AI/ML and product model
• Development of critical analysis and project management skills
Work Experience
Experience/Skills We are Looking for:
• Bachelor's +1 year of experience in computer science / data science or STEM field, or Master's Degree.
• Strong communication abilities, including written, verbal, and interpersonal
• Collaboration, project management, and organizational skills
• Work experience in a results-driven environment
• Strategic/critical thinking
• Experience working on cross-functional teams
• Experience with cloud preferred
• Programming in Python is expected
Primary Work Site/Schedule
• On-site work locations: Rahway, NJ; Hybrid schedule
• Monday-Thursday (Core hours: 9:00 am - 4:40 pm, flexible start and stop)
Requirement: Transitioning Service Members who is participating in the Hiring Our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program
Requisition ID:P-100752