Senior Data & ML Ops Engineer

EMD Serono, Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Retirement contributions

Hybrid work model

Job summary

EMD Serono, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data & MLOps Engineer to own data foundations from ingestion to production, collaborating across Data Science, Commercial, Medical, Analytics, and IT to scale prototypes into governed solutions.

You will deploy ML, analytics, and GenAI solutions, establish CI/CD, and ensure governance and security for healthcare data in a hybrid role with in-office and remote work options.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of experience in data engineering, MLOps, ML engineering, software engineering, cloud engineering, or related roles.
• Hands-on experience building production data pipelines and data assets.
• Experience deploying or operationalizing machine learning models and AI solutions.
• Advanced SQL, Python, and shell scripting.
• Proven track record with AWS services, CloudFormation, and Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, containerization, and production software practices.
• Familiarity with model monitoring, versioning, and deployment automation.
• Strong communicator who collaborates with technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and feature-ready data assets.
• Deploy and operate machine learning and AI solutions with automated workflows.
• Enable GenAI use cases involving embeddings, vector databases, and RAG workflows.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns, CI/CD, testing frameworks, and governance for data/ML.
• Ensure data privacy, security, quality, lineage, and access controls in healthcare data.

Skills

Data engineering

MLOps

Machine learning engineering

Software engineering

Cloud engineering

Shell scripting

Strong communicator

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

IICS

Parquet

AWS

SageMaker

Kubeflow

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Serono. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. United As 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 flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

Your Role

At EMD Serono, data, analytics, and AI are core to how we bring innovative medicines to patients faster. As a Senior Data & MLOps Engineer, you own the data and MLOps foundations - from ingestion to production - collaborating with Data Science, Commercial, Medical, Analytics, and IT to turn prototypes into scalable, governed solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, derived tables, curated datasets, and feature-ready data assets using SQL and Python.
• Deploy and operationalize machine learning, advanced analytics, and generative AI solutions through automated deployment, monitoring, and operational workflows.
• Enable GenAI use cases involving embeddings, vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt management, and evaluation workflows.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns, CI/CD practices, testing frameworks, documentation, and governance standards for data and ML solutions.
• Apply data privacy, security, quality, lineage, access control, and compliance standards appropriate for healthcare and pharmaceutical data.

This will be a hybrid role - in office 3 days per week/2 days per week work from home.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of experience in data engineering, MLOps, machine learning engineering, software engineering, cloud engineering, or related technical roles.
• Hands-on experience building production data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, derived tables, curated datasets, or feature-ready data assets.
• Experience deploying or operationalizing machine learning models, advanced analytics workflows, or AI-enabled solutions.
• Advanced SQL, Python, and shell scripting.
• Proven track record of architecting, deploying, and maintaining complex projects in a diverse ecosystem of AWS services. Experience with AWS automation through CloudFormation and Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, containerization, and production software engineering practices, including troubleshooting build failures.
• Familiarity with model monitoring, model versioning, experiment tracking, testing, and deployment automation. Experience with designing proactive alerting and monitoring workflows for workloads running on AWS services.
• Strong communicator who works independently and collaborates effectively across technical and business stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience across data engineering, MLOps, ML engineering, analytics engineering, or software engineering.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or life sciences environments and datasets such as claims, EMR/EHR, patient services, customer engagement, field activity, marketing, or sales data.
• Experience with Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, IICS or equivalent ETL/orchestration tools, parquet files, and large-scale data processing patterns.
• Experience with AWS ML/data services, MLflow, SageMaker, Kubeflow, Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
• Experience implementing data quality checks, data observability, lineage, pipeline monitoring, model monitoring, drift detection, batch inference, real-time inference, or automated retraining.
• Hands-on experience with GenAI applications (RAG, vector databases, LLM evaluation)
• Nice to have
  • AWS certifications - AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional; AWS Certified Data Engineer
  • Experience with Tableau, Power BI, or other BI tools for data visualization and reporting.

Pay Range for this position: $137,800 - 206,600

The offer range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base pay compensation for this position. The actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level of experience, education, skills, and other job-related factors. Position may be eligible for sales or performance-based bonuses. Benefits offered by the Company include health insurance, paid time off (PTO), retirement contributions, and other prequisites. For more information click here.

What we offer

We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!