Associate Director, Technical Lead - SAP BPC & BW

Job Description

Associate Director, Technical Lead - SAP BPC & BW

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centres focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centres are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Centre helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centres.

Role Overview
As an Associate Director, Technical Lead – SAP BPC & BW, you will be responsible for leading the technical delivery of planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting solutions, with a primary focus on SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) and SAP BW. You will guide and mentor a team of developers while also remaining hands-on—actively designing and developing solutions, resolving complex technical issues, and ensuring high standards of delivery. You will work closely with finance stakeholders and IT teams to ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with business goals. While your core focus will be BPC and BW, you will also provide technical oversight and support for related workstreams in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and SAP Datasphere.

What You Will Do in This Role

• Lead the end-to-end technical delivery of SAP BPC and SAP BW solutions across planning and reporting projects.
• Provide hands-on development support in areas such as BPC logic scripting, BADI implementations, BW data modeling, and performance tuning.
• Serve as the go-to expert for technical design decisions, coaching team members on BPC and BW best practices.
• Review existing implementations and ensure consistent coding standards, documentation, and change control across projects.
• Translate business planning and reporting requirements into scalable technical designs, working in close collaboration with finance users.
• Support related activities in SAC Planning and SAP Datasphere as part of the broader planning landscape, providing guidance and technical input where required.
• Support planning system modernization, including BPC upgrades as well as a future transition to SAC & Datasphere.
• Drive knowledge sharing and mentoring within the development team to build internal capabilities.

What You Should Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience, including 7+ years of technical experience with SAP BPC, with a deep understanding of planning logic, script development, and custom enhancements.
• Strong background in SAP BW (BW 7.x or BW/4HANA), including data modeling, data flows, query design, and integration with planning tools.
• Hands-on experience in ABAP for BPC/BW enhancements and performance optimization.
• Proven experience leading development teams or workstreams in SAP planning projects.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to business stakeholders.
• Experience in Agile project delivery environments.
• Experience with SAC & Datasphere.
• Knowledge of SAP PaPM.

Preferred Qualifications/Experience

• Experience supporting migration efforts from BPC to SAC or BW to Datasphere.
• Familiarity with CDS Views, and integrated reporting solutions.

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.

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA 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 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.

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