Senior Manager, Data Operations Engineer
- Greece-Thessaloniki Chortiatis
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!
Breakthroughs 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.
Pfizer Digital
Pfizer Digital takes immense pride in being at the forefront of innovation, harnessing cutting-edge smart technology that profoundly impacts the lives of our patients.
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.
For U.S. based jobs, view an overview of Pfizer’s U.S. benefits program (opens in a new window)