# Associate Director, Pharmaceutical Data Engineer

Job Description Position Overview: Digital is the multiplier that will allow Development Sciences and Clinical Supply to deliver better experiments faster, efficient filing and launch, more robust supply chains and higher-confidence decisions across the portfolio. The Development Sciences and Clinical Supply Digital Technologies organization is tasked with the mission to pioneer and deploy innovative digital technologies that drive the acquisition, automation and utilization of data to enhance insights, efficiency, and quality of Development Sciences and Clinical Supply processes and methods. The Development Sciences and Clinical Supply Digital Technologies organization within our Company Research Laboratories is accountable for driving the digital transformation, data architecture, and technology solutions that enable the execution and operations of the Development Sciences and Clinical Supply ecosystem. The Associate Director, Digital Operations, is a highly technical role responsible for shifting the organization from traditional BI reporting to a robust, modern data foundation. This role will heavily focus on data engineering, building custom web applications, and deploying adv

- **Id**: 3574112
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/merck-co-associate-director-pharmaceutical-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Lucerne, Switzerland, United States
- **Countries**: CH, US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-30T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T04:08:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 10
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 11780
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Veterinary Medicine, Vaccines, Biologics & Biosimilars, Oncology Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 3768
- **Name**: Merck & Co.
- **Domain**: msd.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/msd>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 97
- **Open postings**: 177
- **Ghost share**: 0.034
- **Stale share**: 0.119
- **Repost share**: 0.181
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 16
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 129000
- **Max**: 203100
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 203100

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CAPA** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Cline** — Optional: no
- **Confluence** — Optional: no
- **Copilot Studio** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **LIMS** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Scrum** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: yes
- **Streamlit** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 10

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Puerto Rico** — Iso: PR; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-31T19:28:45Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 131; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 131 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 81
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.898
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 10
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 203100
- **Is top pay**: no

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