Manager, Data Solutions Engineering
- India - Mumbai
- IND - Chennai Office
The Data Engineering team within the AI, Data, and Analytics (AIDA) organization is the backbone of our data-driven sales and marketing operations. We provide the essential foundation for transformative insights and data innovation. By focusing on integration, curation, quality, and data expertise across diverse sources, we power world-class solutions that advance Pfizer’s mission. Join us in shaping a data-driven organization that makes a meaningful global impact.
Role Summary
We are seeking a technically adept and experienced Data Solutions Engineering Manager with a passion for developing data products and innovative solutions to create competitive advantages for Pfizer’s commercial business units. This role requires a strong technical background to ensure effective collaboration with engineering and developer team members. As a Data Solutions Engineer in our data lake/data warehousing team, you will play a crucial role in building data pipelines and processes that support data transformation, workload management, data structures, dependencies, and metadata management.
This role will need to be able to work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and work alongside them to ensure data being ingested meets the business user's needs and will well modeled and organized to promote scalable usage and good data hygiene. Work with complex and advanced data environments, employ the right architecture to handle data, and support various analytics use cases including business reporting, production data pipeline, machine learning, optimization models, statistical models, and simulations.
The Data Solutions Engineering Manager will ensure data quality and integrity by validating and cleansing data, identifying, and resolving anomalies, implementing data quality checks, and conducting system integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT).
The ideal candidate is a passionate and results-oriented product lead with a proven track record of delivering data-driven solutions for the pharmaceutical industry.
Role Responsibilities
Project solutioning, including scoping, and estimation.
Data sourcing, investigation, and profiling.
Prototyping and design thinking.
Developing data pipelines & complex data workflows.
Actively contribute to project documentation and playbook, including but not limited to physical models, conceptual models, data dictionaries and data cataloging.
Accountable for engineering development of both internal and external facing data solutions by conforming to EDSE and Digital technology standards.
Partner with internal / external partners to design, build and deliver best in class data products globally to improve the quality of our customer analytics and insights and the growth of commercial in its role in helping patients.
Demonstrate outstanding collaboration and operational excellence.
Drive best practices and world-class product capabilities.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in a technical area such as computer science, engineering or management information science.
5+ years of combined data warehouse/data lake experience as hands on data engineer.
5+ years in developing data product and data features in servicing analytics and AI use cases
Recent Healthcare Life Sciences (pharma preferred) and/or commercial/marketing data experience is highly preferred.
Domain knowledge in the pharmaceutical industry preferred.
Good knowledge of data governance and data cataloging best practices.
Technical Skillset
5+ years of hands-on experience in working with SQL, Python, object-oriented scripting languages (e.g. Java, C++, etc..) in building data pipelines and processes. Proficiency in SQL programming, including the ability to create and debug stored procedures, functions, and views.
5+ years of hands-on experience delivering data lake/data warehousing projects.
Experience in working with cloud native SQL and NoSQL database platforms. Snowflake experience is desirable.
Experience in AWS services EC2, EMR, RDS, Spark is preferred.
Solid understanding of Scrum/Agile is preferred and working knowledge of CI/CD, GitHub MLflow.
Familiarity with data privacy standards, governance principles, data protection, pharma industry practices/GDPR compliance is preferred.
Great communication skills.
Great business influencing and stakeholder management skills.
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
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Each word in our purpose has meaning and reflects the value we strive to bring to patients and society:
“Breakthroughs” - These are the innovations, scientific and commercial, that we seek to deliver every day. All colleagues, regardless of role, level or location, strive for breakthroughs every day.
“Change” - We want to do more than simply improve patients’ medical conditions; we want to dramatically change their lives for the better.
“Patients’ lives” - We consider not only patients, but everyone they touch—including their families, caregivers, and friends—and everything they love to do. It’s an intentionally holistic view.
Our purpose ensures that patients remain at the center of all we do. We live our purpose by sourcing the best science in the world; partnering with others in the healthcare system to improve access to our medicines; using digital technologies to enhance our drug discovery and development, as well as patient outcomes; and leading the conversation to advocate for pro-innovation/pro-patient policies.
Every decision we make and every action we take is done with the patient in mind—and to nurture an environment where breakthroughs can thrive.
Our Values
To fully realize Pfizer’s purpose, we have established a clear set of expectations regarding “what” we need to achieve for patients and “how” we will go about achieving those goals.
The “how” is represented by four simple, powerful values—courage, excellence, equity, and joy—that define our company and our culture.
Courage: Breakthroughs start by challenging convention, especially in the face of uncertainty or adversity. This happens when we think big, speak up, and are decisive.
Excellence: We can only change patients’ lives when we perform at our best together. This happens when we focus on what matters, agree who does what, and measure our outcomes.
Equity: We believe that every person deserves to be seen, heard, and cared for. This happens when we are inclusive, act with integrity, and reduce healthcare disparities.
Joy: We give ourselves to our work, but it also gives to us. We find joy when we take pride, recognize one another, and have fun.
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With the transformative potential of digital solutions, we revolutionize how we discover, develop, and deliver medicines, enabling us to achieve breakthroughs faster and more efficiently.
By streamlining and automating transactional processes, we create valuable time and resources, empowering our talented team to focus on meaningful work that truly makes a difference in healthcare and beyond.
Benefits at Pfizer
Pfizer offers competitive compensation and benefits programs designed to meet the diverse needs of our colleagues. Our Pay for Performance Philosophy and Practices reward colleagues based on the contributions they make to our business.
Our Competitive Benefits Programs help our colleagues by:
- Promoting Health and Wellness to help colleagues maintain and improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Pfizer offerings include health and disability insurance, preventative health programs, medical screenings, free or reduced-cost vaccinations, discounts on Pfizer products, mental health support, nutrition and fitness counseling and more.
- Strengthening Colleagues’ Financial Security by providing company contributions to retirement plans, life insurance and financial planning education to help colleagues achieve their financial goals.
- Providing Benefits and Time off for the Moments that Matter to ensure Pfizer colleagues have the time away from the office to recharge, recover and return to work as the best version of themselves. Vacation, Holiday time and Sick time are just the beginning, with a 12 week parental leave policy for both parents of a new born, 10 day of caregiver leave for those times when your family needs you whether it’s a child, spouse or parent, bereavement leave, and additional country-specific programs.
- And so much more, depending on your country and site, Pfizer offers childcare facilities or discount programs, on-site health and/or fitness centers, movement and mindfulness solutions, “Log in for your Day” work flexibility and so much more.
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