Associate Director, Data Engineering — Sterile Pharma

Merck; West Point (PA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck in the United States is seeking an Associate Director to join the DSCS Digital Technologies team. You will design, build, and maintain data foundations powering data-driven modeling for sterile drug product development.

The role focuses on capturing, curating, and delivering SPD data into ML, statistics, and hybrid models, enabling faster experiments and robust manufacturing decisions across biologics and vaccines.

Qualifications

• PhD/MS/BS with industrial/pharma experience required.
• Hands-on sterile drug product development experience.
• Experience in data pipelines and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with SPD experimentalists to gather data requirements.
• Design scalable data pipelines ingesting SPD data from unit operations.
• Support process modeling with analysis-ready datasets.
• Define data standards and metadata schemas for SPD data integration.
• Automate data ingestion from lab instruments and LIMS into cloud storage.
• Create dashboards and data exports for stakeholders.
• Influence data strategy to improve data capture at source.

Skills

Data pipelines

Data engineering

Python

ML/Stats modeling

Education

PhD in CS/DS/Engineering/Pharma

MS in CS/DS/Engineering

BS in CS/DS/Engineering

Tools

ELN systems

PAT systems

Job description

Merck in the United States is seeking an Associate Director to join the DSCS Digital Technologies team. You will design, build, and maintain data foundations powering data-driven modeling for sterile drug product development.

The role focuses on capturing, curating, and delivering SPD data into ML, statistics, and hybrid models, enabling faster experiments and robust manufacturing decisions across biologics and vaccines.