About the role
Job Description
Our company Information Technology division partners with colleagues across the business to help serve our patients and customers around the world. Ours is a high-energy team of dynamic, innovative individuals dedicated to leveraging information and technology to efficiently drive revenue and productivity, thereby advancing our companys contribution to global medical innovation.
Responsibilities
- Engage with IT practitioners and act as a consultant for the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Technology Risk Profile, Digital SDLC, and the IT Controls.
- Author and review SDLC documentation and facilitate user testing.
- Provide advice to IT colleagues regarding the practical application of the SDLC and implementation of IT Controls for product teams.
- Support efforts to reduce SDLC documentation through automation and pipeline delivery.
- Advance Agile SDLC and IT Controls competency and drive good practices for product teams.
- Work across product teams and initiatives as subject matter expert on the SDLC and IT Controls.
- Assist in collecting information for Change Control and addressing impact changes for application releases.
- Ensure that the IT organization operates and complies with established policies/procedures.
- Support audit/inspection readiness and participate in the timely review and Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) response.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelors Degree is required.
- 3 years working in IT, Quality or Compliance.
- Technical knowledge and understanding of System Development Life Cycle, GxP principles, and computer validation.
- Demonstrate an ability to influence decisions and champion policy changes.
- Demonstrate an executive presence through good communication and professionalism.
- Understanding of emerging technologies used in the IT industry, such as cloud, data science, and analytics platforms.
Preferred
- Concentration in an Information Technology or related field.
- Exposure to at least one of the following: research, manufacturing, Infrastructure, software development, or security.
What we offer
- Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
- Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
- Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern
- Competitive salary incentive pay
- Pension and health insurance contributions
- Internal reward system and referral scheme
- 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution
- Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card
- Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and discount programmes
- Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
- Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner
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Required Skills:
Audit Management, Governance Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Management, Risk Management, Technical Advice
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Merck Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.
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09/14/2026*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the dayBEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the dayBEFORE the job posting end date.
Requisition ID: R414794
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