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One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life.

Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and adaptable working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.Your Role: As a Senior Cloud Data & AI Architect within the Healthcare Architecture Team, you will design and govern cloud-native architectures that enable scalable data, analytics, AI/GenAI, and agentic AI solutions across the healthcare portfolio. You will partner with Data & AI, Security, Platform, and cross-functional Healthcare teams to define standards, drive reference architectures, and enable governed solutions across AWS, Snowflake, Palantir Foundry, and related technologies. This role combines deep cloud engineering with data, AI/ML, and agentic workflow architecture to accelerate value delivery while ensuring compliance, security, reliability, and responsible AI.

- Design end-to-end cloud architectures on AWS and connected data platforms, including Snowflake and Palantir Foundry.
- Define and govern reusable patterns for data ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, and AI/ML workflows.
- Embed security, privacy, data governance, resilience, and cost management into solution designs from the start.
- Evaluate platform and integration choices to improve performance, scalability, and total cost of ownership.
- Collaborate with cross-functional Healthcare teams to translate business priorities into scalable, secure,



and compliant data and AI solutions.
- Who You Are - Minimum Qualifications• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field.
- 6+ years of experience in cloud architecture, cloud engineering, or a closely related technical role.
- Hands-on expertise designing solutions on AWS, including identity and access management, storage, compute, serverless, data, and security services.
- Experience with at least one enterprise data platform, such as Snowflake or Palantir Foundry.
- Experience designing and delivering AI/ML or GenAI infrastructure, including data pipelines, deployment, monitoring, and governance.
- Knowledge of data governance, data quality, privacy, security, and regulated-data considerations, including PII/PHI and GxP-relevant contexts.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL, plus infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience designing or delivering GenAI and agentic AI solutions, including large language model application architecture, retrieval-augmented generation, agent orchestration, tool integration, evaluation, monitoring, and responsible-AI controls.Preferred Qualifications• Master’s or doctoral degree in a related discipline.
- AWS certifications, such as Solutions Architect, Data Analytics, or Machine Learning Specialty.
- Experience with clinical, research, manufacturing, regulatory, commercial, or supply-chain data in a healthcare or life-sciences environment.
- Experience leading architecture governance forums and developing enterprise standards, data lineage, metadata, or integration practices.
- Experience delivering scalable, multi-service data and AI platforms in regulated environments.
- Experience applying agentic workflows to regulated healthcare or life-sciences use cases, with security, privacy, auditability, and human-oversight controls.Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!

📌 Senior Expert Cloud Data & AI Architect - Healthcare (España)
🏢 Merck
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