Senior Manager, Data Services

ROLE SUMMARY

At Pfizer we make medicines and vaccines that change patients' lives with a global reach of over 780 million 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 Senior Manager, Data Services will be on a team responsible for executing the technical strategies, architecture, system designs and solutions development to enable the Digital Manufacturing organization business processes as it relates to the PGS Production System and some of the major COVID-19 Vaccine Production initiatives. 

The colleague will be accountable for leading data services activities within the team to enable advanced, innovative, and scalable database services and data platforms for data engineering, AI, analytics, business intelligence & insights.

This person will be working in a DevOps team that build microservices using cloud infrastructure, open source technology, containerization & orchestration, and CI/CD pipeline for software delivery automation.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior Manager, Data Services responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead a team of high performing software engineers across multiple product lines delivering data driven solutions using modern cloud architecture and DevOps techniques.
• Be responsible for executing the technical and architecture strategies and roadmaps across Digital Production Systems.
• Be accountable for implementing architectures, strategies, design, and delivery using Scrum agile development methodology.
• Ensure quality software is delivered on time within a fast-paced agile environment.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvements across the development environment.
• Monitor sprint progress, eliminate barriers, and ensure effectively deliver the solutions to add values to our business customers.
• Understand business customers’ expectations and preferences including alignment with Digital landscape
• Support day-to-day operational needs and lead issue investigation and resolution.
• Act as a thought leader on emerging digital technologies
• Develop and implement process improvements, enforcement of adherence to standards across the organization and compliance with industry regulations.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across Pfizer Global Supply, Digital and Strategic Partners

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 7 years of experience in developing and deploying enterprise solution
• 3+ years working with agile software delivery model.
• Working experience in engineering and technical delivery of the cloud-based solutions created in modern programming languages/frameworks; Java, Python, D3
• Working experience with relational, NoSQL and analytic database systems: PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Couchbase, Redshift, Snowflake
• Has owned systems and managed development of end-to-end applications.
• Has experience with production deployments of complex systems.
• Experience with an industry-accepted, structured software development life cycle methodology.
• Experience supporting the development of complex software products including the deployment of multiple versions / releases of a large product.
• Ability to contribute to technical specifications, technical design documentation, process documentation and technical SOPs for the software development team.
• Experience working in teams to address software defect analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution.
• Excellent communication skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Pharmaceutical Experience
• Experience delivering solutions with the following attributes:
  • Microservices
  • Containers, Docker
  • CI/CD, code repositories
  • DevOps tools Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker
  • Kafka, Spark, Impala, Presto

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Ability to manage many parallel objectives and changing priorities.

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

• Job will require working with global teams and applications. Flexible working schedule will be needed on occasion to accommodate planned agile sprint planning and system releases as well as unplanned/on-call level 3 support.

  
Work Location Assignment: Flexible

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Purpose 

Breakthroughs that change patients' lives... At Pfizer we are a patient centric company, guided by our four values: courage, joy, equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives.  

Digital Transformation Strategy

One bold way we are achieving our purpose is through our company wide digital transformation strategy. We are leading the way in adopting new data, modelling and automated solutions to further digitize and accelerate drug discovery and development with the aim of enhancing health outcomes and the patient experience.

Flexibility  

We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Let’s start the conversation!  

Equal Employment Opportunity 

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer, Pfizer is committed to celebrating this, in all its forms – allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees.

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