Senior Manager, Data Operations Engineer

Use Your Power for Purpose
Do you want to make a global impact on patient health? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment that integrates scientific, clinical, and commercial domains through engineering, data science, and AI. Join Pfizer Digital's Commercial Creation Center & CDI organization (C4) to leverage cutting-edge technology for critical business decisions and enhance customer experiences for colleagues, patients, and physicians. Our team of engineering, data science, and AI professionals is at the forefront of Pfizer's transformation into a digitally driven organization, using data science and AI to change patients' lives, leading process and engineering innovations to advance AI and data science applications from prototypes and MVPs to full production.
As a Senior Manager, Data Operations Engineer, your responsibilities will include architecting and implementing AI solutions at scale for Pfizer. You will iteratively develop and continuously improve data science workflows, AI based software solutions, and AI components.
What You Will Achieve
DataOps & Analytics Platform Execution

• Lead the design, build, and operation of data and analytics platforms supporting commercial reporting, advanced analytics, and AI/ML use cases.
• Own operational pipelines for batch and streaming data ingestion, transformation, and serving, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Implement and maintain DataOps automation using CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and configuration management to support analytics and ML workloads.
• Partner with infrastructure and platform teams to ensure data platforms are deployed using standardized cloud-native patterns (AWS/Azure).
• Translate Director-level analytics platform strategy into working, production-grade data systems.

Data Reliability, Quality & Observability

• Own end-to-end data reliability, including freshness, completeness, accuracy, and avalability across analytics and AI pipelines.
• Implement data observability and monitoring capabilities (e.g., pipeline health, schema drift, SLA/SLO tracking).
• Define and track data reliability KPIs, such as pipeline failure rates, data incident frequency, and recovery time.
• Lead response to data incidents, including root-cause analysis, remediation plans, and post-incident reviews.
• Drive adoption of data reliability engineering (DRE) and SRE-inspired practices within DataOps teams.

Testing & Quality Enablement for Data Pipelines

• Define and enforce data testing standards, including:
  
  • Data quality checks (schema, nulls, ranges, distributions)
  • Pipeline validation and reconciliation
  • Regression testing for analytics transformations

• Embed automated data tests into CI/CD workflows to support shift-left DataOps practices.
• Partner with analytics, ML, and QA teams to support non-functional testing such as:
  
  • Performance and scalability of data pipelines
  • Reliability under load and failure scenarios

• Track and report data quality and defect escape metrics, using insights to drive continuous improvement.

AI & Advanced Analytics Enablement

• Enable data scientists and ML engineers by ensuring trusted, well-governed, and production-ready data assets.
• Support operational analytics and AI workflows by providing:
  
  • Reliable feature pipelines
  • Versioned and reproducible datasets
  • Secure access to structured and unstructured data

• Partner with AI and analytics leaders to support MLOps integration points, such as:
  
  • Data lineage for model training
  • Monitoring of data drift and input quality

• Contribute to data governance standards for lineage, traceability, and stewardship across analytics lifecycles.

People Leadership & Ways of Working

• Coach engineers on:
  
  • Data pipeline design and optimization
  • Automation and reliability practices
  • Secure and compliant data handling

• Establish strong engineering discipline through design reviews, data contracts, documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Partner closely with product, analytics, AI, and infrastructure leaders to sequence delivery and manage trade-offs.

Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

• BA/BS with 6+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or DataOps roles.
• Strong hands-on experience building and operating production data pipelines in AWS or Azure environments.
• Proven expertise in:
  
  • Modern data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, SQL-based transformation tools)
  • CI/CD and automation for data platforms
  • Data pipeline orchestration and monitoring

• Solid understanding of testing and quality practices for data systems, including:
  
  • Automated data quality testing
  • Pipeline validation and regression testing
  • Supporting non-functional testing (performance, reliability, scalability)

• Experience implementing data observability, monitoring, and incident management practices.
• Demonstrated experience with secure data handling and governance, including access control and compliance-aware environments.
• Proficiency in programming and scripting (e.g., Python, SQL, Scala, Bash).
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional teams and deliver outcomes through others.
• Proven leadership capabilities.

Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Analytics, or related field.
• Experience supporting AI/ML workloads and feature pipelines in production.
• Familiarity with MLOps concepts related to data (e.g., training data lineage, drift detection).
• Background in data reliability engineering, SRE, or large-scale distributed data systems.
• Cloud (AWS/Azure) Professional certifications.
• Data engineering or analytics platform certifications.
• Experience using common AI tools, including generative technologies such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, to support problem solving and enhance productivity. Demonstrated curiosity for exploring how these tools can improve outcomes and understanding of responsible AI practices, including risk management and ethical use.

Please apply by sending your CV in English.
Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
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.
Disability Inclusion
Our mission is unleashing the power of all our people and we are proud to be a disability inclusive employer, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all candidates. We encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments to support your application and future career. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!
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