Manager, Cloud Solutions Support

ROLE SUMMARY

At Pfizer, we make medicines and vaccines that change patients' lives with a global reach of over 1.1 billion patients. Pfizer Digital is the organization charged with winning the digital race in the pharmaceutical industry. We apply our expertise in technology, innovation, and our business to support Pfizer in this mission.

The Digital Finance organization creates, configures, and runs digital products, platforms, and solutions that support Pfizer's core finance business functions such as Financial Consolidations, Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting, Treasury, Tax, Compliance, Internal, and External Reporting.

This Manager role is a hands-on technical role responsible for supporting Finance reporting applications leveraging both on-premise and AWS cloud platforms, and delivering proof of concepts, small development projects and/or maintenance projects.

Pfizer seeks a candidate that understands financial budgeting, forecasting, planning, and reporting processes and their application to solving business problems.  The candidate is highly self-motivated, eager to explore new technologies, and is effective when working in a team environment. A strong aptitude towards self-development and growth is highly desired.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide application support and execute day to day operational maintenance activities for financial reporting applications

• Troubleshoot and diagnose system issues

• Support and execute project deployment activities

• Perform Infrastructure configuration management

• Assist with the transition of all new applications into the support model

• Drive operational efficiencies through continuous improvements

• Liaise with solution delivery team to analyze and confirm opportunities for optimization

• Maintain support operating procedures and work instructions

• Support compliance activities (Audit preparation, Disaster recovery execution, etc.)

• Prioritize tasks for the local team

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or similar field

• 5 Years of demonstrated experience working in development and/or support teams

• 2 Years of demonstrated experience with AWS Technology

  • Understanding of core AWS Services, Architecture, and Best Practices

  • Experience in Developing, Deploying and Debugging AWS Cloud-based applications

  • Ability to use the AWS Service API, AWS CLI, and SDKs

  • Ability to interact with the AWS services such as Glue, Lambda, API Gateway, and others

• Experience with database technologies (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, Aurora)

• Experience with ETL Tools (Informatica, Talend, etc.)

• Proficiency of at least two programming languages such as Python, Spark, PySpark, or JavaScript

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent organizational and time management capabilities

• Strong interpersonal skills in building customer relationships

• Ability to work independently and or in a global team setting across time zones

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Exposure to Finance reporting applications

• Project Management expertise in managing multiple projects

• Familiar with SDLC/Agile methodologies

• Exposure to DevOps processes

• Exposure to Spotfire/Tableau/MicroStrategy

• AWS certification

  
Work Location Assignment: On Premise

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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