Senior Associate Data Engineer
- India - Mumbai
ROLE SUMMARY
The AI Acceleration (AIA) function within the Chief Marketing Office (CMO) is the single, business-led engine that owns the design, delivery, and scale-up of priority AI capabilities across Commercial. AIA works in tight collaboration with various Pfizer functions to deploy and maintain production-grade AI solutions that simplify how we work and drive measurable value across all processes.
As a Data engineer in the newly formed AIA team, you should be able to design build, integrate, curate, and operationalize data and models into a semantic layer to power AI-enabled products. Additionally, you need to ensure interpretability, lineage of reusable data assets and uphold the bar on governance, performance measurement, and responsible AI
Data Pipeline Development
- Build the semantic layer that enables contextualized and explainable AI-driven workflows, including ontology development, entity models and knowledge graphs
- Build robust data pipelines to ingest, transform and prepare structured and unstructured datasets from diverse internal and external sources e.g. CRM platforms (e.g., Veeva) and field force deployment or alignment tools, HCP engagement data, digital metrics, and campaign data sources.
- Ensure data is clean, normalized, and optimized for downstream AI/ML and analytics use.
Infrastructure & Architecture
- Develop and manage data infrastructure using cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Implement data lake, data warehouse, and real-time streaming architecture.
- Support containerization and orchestration using data management tools
- Enable real-time and batch data access for AI agents, LLM-based applications and analytical products
Data Quality & Governance
- Implement data validation, profiling, and monitoring processes to ensure accuracy and reliability.
- Collaborate with compliance teams to ensure data handling aligns with HIPAA, FDA, and other U.S. healthcare regulations.
- Maintain metadata, lineage, and audit trails for all data assets.
Collaboration & Cross-Functional Support
- Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers and product managers to optimize data for use in RAG, autonomous AI agents and retrieval pipelines
- Support rapid prototyping and iterative development of AI solutions.
Performance Optimization
- Tune data workflows for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
- Implement caching, indexing, and partitioning strategies to support high-volume data processing.
- Monitor system health and troubleshoot bottlenecks in data pipelines.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Upto 4 years of experience in data engineering, preferably in healthcare or life sciences.
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, and data pipeline frameworks (e.g., Apache Airflow, Spark, Kafka).
- Experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., AWS Redshift, Azure Synapse, Google BigQuery).
- Familiarity with pipeline orchestration (e.g. Airflow, DBT, Prefect,Dagster)
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Extensive experience working in agile setting or bring agile best-practice mentorship to the team.
- Familiarity with data privacy standards, pharma industry practices/GDPR compliance is preferred.
- Prioritizes excellence in Data Engineering by following F.A.I.R. principles and adhering to engineering and documentation standards set for by the organization.
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
Information & Business TechBreakthroughs that change patients’ lives
Research confirms what intuition tells us: that purpose-driven companies perform better, are more innovative, attract and retain the best people, and know how to unleash the power of those people. Pfizer’s purpose—Breakthroughs that change patients' lives—fuels everything we do and reflects our passion for building on our legacy as one of the greatest contributors of good to the world.
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.
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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