Associate Director, Data Engineer, DSCS Digital Technologies
Merck
September 21, 2026
Full-time
Remote friendly (Rahway, NJ)
Worldwide
IT
Role: Associate Director in Digital Insights within Development Sciences and Clinical Supply (DSCS) Digital Technologies, focusing on data foundation development for sterile drug product modeling. Responsibilities: design and maintain data pipelines for experimental and process data from sterile product development (SPD) teams, collaborate with scientists and engineers to gather data requirements, implement scalable data ingestion solutions, and enable data-driven modeling of biologics and vaccines. Requirements: Ph.D. with 3+ years, M.S. with 5+ years, or B.S. with 7+ years in a relevant scientific or engineering field; hands-on experience in sterile drug development and data engineering, proficiency in Python/R, and understanding of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. HighValue: expertise in sterile CMC processes, biologics/vaccines, data modeling approaches including machine learning, and familiarity with lab systems and cloud platforms (AWS, Dataiku, Databricks). WorkSetup: hybrid, with flexible locations; travel not specified.