2 days ago
Berlin, Germany +7 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$124k - $207k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own visualization, analytics, and collaboration solutions for Integrative Biology from design through deployment and maintenance.
- Prioritize and scope features with the R&D Capability Lead and translate scientific needs into technical requirements and delivery plans.
- Architect and build scalable dashboards, visual exploration tools, and analytics platforms for large biological datasets.
- Design, provision, and operate AWS and GCP infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code.
- Deploy and manage containerized workloads on Kubernetes, including EKS and GKE cluster configuration, networking, access control, scaling, and cost management.
- Develop, test, and maintain production services, APIs, automation, and web-based visualization applications in Python or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Build secure and reproducible collaboration environments for data scientists and research teams.
- Lead contractor or matrixed delivery teams by providing technical direction, reviewing work, and maintaining quality and security standards.
- Define technical standards, governance frameworks, and best practices for the capability area.
- Improve reliability, performance, scalability, and security through monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational improvements.
- Collaborate with data scientists, computational biologists, research scientists, and cross-functional global teams to understand workflows and deliver appropriate platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, bioinformatics, engineering, or a related field.
- At least 6 years of progressive experience in solution engineering, software engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing cloud platforms and visualization, analytics, or collaboration solutions.
- Experience owning end-to-end technical solution delivery in a complex enterprise or scientific environment.
- Experience leading contractor or matrixed delivery teams and providing technical direction.
- Proficiency in Python and/or other modern high-level languages used in data engineering and scientific computing.
- Hands-on experience building and operating workloads on both AWS and GCP.
- Production experience with Kubernetes, including EKS, GKE, or similar platforms, and Docker containerization.
- Experience with Helm or equivalent packaging, Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions.
- Strong Python or JavaScript/TypeScript software development experience shipping and maintaining production code.
- Working knowledge of data ingestion, transformation, storage, data engineering, and data platform concepts supporting visualization and analytics workloads.
- Experience working with regulated data, compliance frameworks, and secure development practices.
- Ability to lead complex engineering efforts across global, cross-functional teams and communicate clearly in English.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s or PhD, pharmaceutical R&D or life sciences experience, AWS/GCP certifications, CKA or CKAD, GitOps and observability experience, React experience, scientific visualization tools, collaboration platforms, FAIR data principles, and work with data scientists or computational biologists.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Travel of up to 10% may be required.
- Comprehensive benefits including a 401(k) plan with Pfizer matching contributions and an additional retirement savings contribution.
- Paid vacation, holidays, personal days, caregiver/parental leave, and medical leave.
- Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
- Eligibility for Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan and share-based long-term incentive program.
- Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and eligibility.
- Last date to apply is November 30, 2026.
Tech Stack
Argo CDAWSD3.jsDockerGitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmJavaScriptKubernetesPrometheusPythonReactTerraformTypeScript
About Pfizer
Pfizer is a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription medicines and vaccines for patients, healthcare systems, and governments worldwide. Its portfolio spans oncology, vaccines, immunology, and rare disease, with products such as the COVID-19 vaccine (with BioNTech) and the antiviral Paxlovid. Founded in 1849 and headquartered in New York City, Pfizer operates globally under the ticker PFE on the NYSE.