Join a global biopharma company with a 130-year legacy and mission to achieve new milestones in healthcare. Be part of technology driven, data-led organization supporting a diversified portfolio of medicines, vaccines and animal health products. Work alongside passionate teams that use data, analytics and insights to drive decisions, and tackle some of the world’s greatest health threats.
Our Technology Centers are globally distributed hubs that enable our digital transformation and business outcomes across IT. Each Tech Center is supported by a focused group of leaders who invest in the well-being of our people and work together across locations to optimize global connections and continuously share and improve best practices.
We are seeking an experienced, hands-on engineering leader to join the Veeva Platform Center of Efficiency as Associate Director, Veeva Platform Engineering Lead. Reporting to the Director, Center of Efficiency, this role leads engineering execution across the enterprise Veeva Platform ecosystem, with India as the primary location and Prague, Budapest, and Barcelona also considered.
Unlike traditional Vault-specific leadership roles, this position operates at the Veeva Platform level and requires an enterprise-first mindset. The successful candidate will work across multiple Veeva Vault domains, driving consistency, reuse, engineering standards, and platform-wide best practices that maximize business value across the broader Veeva ecosystem.
The ideal candidate combines deep Veeva expertise, strong integration and engineering leadership, platform thinking, and hands-on technical capability. This is a player-coach role requiring both leadership execution and technical engagement while leading a multidisciplinary team of engineers and specialists and enabling AI-driven ways of working.
· Lead engineering execution across the Veeva Platform ecosystem, ensuring successful delivery of platform priorities, backlog commitments, and roadmap-aligned initiatives.
· Translate platform engineering strategy into executable plans and measurable outcomes in partnership with the Center of Efficiency (CoE) & Center of Strategy (CoS) Leadership.
· Manage and develop a multidisciplinary team including Integration Engineers, Veeva Configuration Specialists, Quality Engineers, Business Analysts, Release Managers, and AI Engineers.
· Partner with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, business stakeholders, Vault teams, vendors, and matrix teams to prioritize, plan, and deliver high-quality platform capabilities.
· Drive platform-wide adoption of reusable engineering standards, integration patterns, release practices, and configuration best practices across Veeva Vault domains.
· Balance divisional requirements with enterprise platform objectives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reusable, and aligned with long-term platform goals.
· Provide technical leadership across Veeva Vault implementations, integrations, and platform services, including Veeva APIs, MuleSoft, event-driven architectures, OAuth, and secure authentication frameworks.
· Lead platform security initiatives including MFA enablement, authentication modernization, OAuth adoption, and remediation of platform risks and technical debt.
· Manage vendors and matrix teams to deliver high-quality outcomes in a complex global environment.
· Champion AI-enabled engineering practices, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives to improve platform quality, predictability, productivity, and operational efficiency.·
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.
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and 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.
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.
Agile Methodology, GxPs, MES Integration, Veeva Vault
DevOps, Stakeholder Management
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