Job Description

R413877 Salesforce Developer

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 Centers 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 Centers 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 Center 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 CenteThe Lab Integration Platform is a critical enabler of digital transformation strategy, supporting secure, compliant, and efficient data exchange across laboratory systems.

Role Overview

The position

• As our Salesforce Developer you’ll play a vital role in delivering projects to improve and enhance the way our teams use Salesforce. Your main role will be to use your technical skillset to implement and take ownership of all programmatic requests for our new Salesforce.com (Sales & Service, Experience and other) Cloud based projects, with a particular focus on Apex, Lightning Web Components and integrations. 
• You’ll also work alongside our team of Technical Product Managers, Solutions Architects to deliver projects and work closely with our Administrators, collaborating on projects and supporting them with technical advice and assistance. You will also be helping to ensure the quality of any deployments and advising and mentoring other team members on best practice.

The position

As our Salesforce Developer you’ll play a vital role in delivering projects to improve and enhance the way our teams use Salesforce. Your main role will be to use your technical skillset to implement and take ownership of all programmatic requests for our new Salesforce.com (Sales & Service, Experience and other) Cloud based projects, with a particular focus on Apex, Lightning Web Components and integrations.

You’ll also work alongside our team of Technical Product Managers, Solutions Architects to deliver projects and work closely with our Administrators, collaborating on projects and supporting them with technical advice and assistance. You will also be helping to ensure the quality of any deployments and advising and mentoring other team members on best practice.

Who are you?

You are an experienced developer who has worked on multiple Salesforce Cloud projects. You have experience delivering programmatic solutions across user interface, background automation and to support integrations.

You have holistic experience across the platform and are happy to use non-code solutions where they are more suitable. You’re happy collaborating with the wider Salesforce team and working on cross-functional projects together. You also have experience working with business stakeholders, meeting with them to clarify requirements and communicate your proposed solutions.

You are experienced with agile and scrum methodologies and using deployment tools to support the release management process across multiple sandboxes, in addition you can support the rest of the team on this.

What will you do?

Your primary activities include (but are not limited to):

• Collaborating with the Salesforce Administrator and Solutions Architects to validate business requirements and any considerations (security, scalability, limits),

• Develop Apex (classes and triggers), Visualforce*, (based on specific requirements) to extend Salesforce in order to support business requirements,

• Custom User Interface development, including Visualforce* pages/Lightning pages, Aura Components and LWC,

• Integrations: Use Salesforce APIs to integrate with other systems used by the organization.

• Best Practices: Adhere to Salesforce best practices, maintain code documentation, and write / maintain test classes for all custom development.

• Take ownership of release cycles to implement and deploy new/updates to existing applications and code,

• Integrating and maintaining business applications to Salesforce.

• Collaborating with IT / Developers for other systems in order to integrate across the business,

• Supporting the Salesforce Administrators & Architects.
• Responsible for updating technical documentation and adhering to DSDLC & GxP expectations.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience Required  -

• Salesforce Sales/Service and Experience Cloud product knowledge and at least 5+ years of Salesforce development experience,

• Able to work independently,

• Able to collaborate and communicate effectively with business stakeholders / other Salesforce team members.

• Certified Salesforce Platform Developer I, Platform Developer II , Platform App Builder

• Proficient with Salesforce development lifecycle and environment strategy.

• Experience implementing and developing in Apex, LWC, Visualforce, and Java.

• General web development experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript.

• A proactive attitude to Salesforce enhancements and bringing existing code into best practices.

• Ability to write, interpret, and feedback technical specifications.

• Experience working with large data sets and bulkification.
• Proficient in Salesforce Agentic capabilities, and AI implementations within the CI/CD and development pipelines

• Soft skills: the ability to gather requirements and present and communicate solutions to stakeholders.

Desireable

• Additional Salesforce certifications e.g. Certified Salesforce Administrator, JavaScript Developer I, Agentforce Specialist, Architecture or Integration Architect

• Bachelor’s/Postgraduate degree, professional qualification, or relevant experience.

• Competency in other languages / development (XML, Flex, JavaScript, .NET, SQL, C++, SOAP-based web services.
• Demonstrates continued personal/professional development.

• Active in the Salesforce community.

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 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 intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today. 

Required Skills:

Agile Project Management, Agile Project Management, Application Integrations, Availability Management, Business Requirements Analysis, Business Systems Integration, Change Controls, Graphical User Interface (GUI), Incident Management, Management System Development, Platform Development, Presenting Solutions, Problem Management, Project Architecture, Quality Assurance (QA), Release Management, Salesforce Administration, Scrum, Service Delivery, SLA Management, Software Configurations, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Solutions Development, System Integration {+ 5 more}

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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. 

Employee Status:

Regular

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Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

09/15/2026

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