Associate Director, Veeva Platform Engineering Lead

Job Description

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.

What will you do in this role:

What should you have:

Success Profile

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.

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.

Required Skills:

Agile Methodology, GxPs, MES Integration, Veeva Vault

DevOps, Stakeholder Management

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Job Posting End Date:

10/7/2026 *A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE  the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.