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Start your next chapter and join EMD Serono.\nReady 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.\nUnited 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. 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Experience with AWS automation through CloudFormation and Azure DevOps.\nExperience with Git, CI/CD, containerization, and production software engineering practices, including troubleshooting build failures.\nFamiliarity 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.\nStrong communicator who works independently and collaborates effectively across technical and business stakeholders\nPreferred Qualifications\n7+ years of experience across data engineering, MLOps, ML engineering, analytics engineering, or software engineering.\nExperience 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.\nExperience with Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, IICS or equivalent ETL/orchestration tools, parquet files, and large-scale data processing patterns.\nExperience with AWS ML/data services, MLflow, SageMaker, Kubeflow, Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform.\nExperience implementing data quality checks, data observability, lineage, pipeline monitoring, model monitoring, drift detection, batch inference, real-time inference, or automated retraining.\nHands-on experience with GenAI applications (RAG, vector databases, LLM evaluation)\nNice to have\nAWS certifications - AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional; AWS Certified Data Engineer\nExperience with Tableau, Power BI, or other BI tools for data visualization and reporting.\n\nPay Range for this position: $137,800 - 206,600\nThe offer range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base pay compensation for this position. 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