2 days ago
Berlin, Germany +7 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$163k - $272k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end design, implementation, maintenance, and technical direction of data storage and registration solutions.
- Design scalable storage, metadata, provenance, lineage, access-control, stewardship, and data-findability capabilities for omics data.
- Build and operate cross-cloud storage and data services across AWS and GCP, including identity federation, network connectivity, data movement, and replication.
- Define storage tiering, retention, archival, egress, performance, and cost-management policies for very large scientific datasets.
- Establish architectural patterns, governance frameworks, standards, and best practices and drive adoption across delivery teams and contractors.
- Partner with capability leads, scientists, product stakeholders, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into prioritized technical solutions.
- Lead contractor teams by providing technical guidance, reviewing work, and maintaining quality, scope, and delivery timelines.
- Make and document architectural decisions, review designs and implementations, and address technical debt, performance issues, and security gaps.
- Guide complex engineering efforts across global, cross-functional teams in a regulated research environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, bioinformatics, engineering, or a related field is required.
- At least 8 years of progressive experience in software engineering, data engineering, or solution engineering, including hands-on delivery of complex data storage, registration, or platform capabilities.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining data storage and registration solutions in a scientific or regulated enterprise environment.
- Experience defining technical standards, best practices, and patterns and driving their adoption across teams.
- Strong data engineering, cloud-native platform, and software development background with the ability to contribute individually and lead contractors.
- Hands-on experience operating storage and data services in both AWS and GCP, including a production system integrating services or data across the two clouds.
- Experience managing hundreds of terabytes to petabytes of scientific or research data, including lifecycle management, tiering, performance tuning, and cost control.
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, Java, or another modern high-level programming language.
- Expertise with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Helm, and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions.
- Experience with AWS storage, data, identity, and analytics services including S3, Glacier, IAM, Lake Formation, Glue, Athena, and FSx for Lustre.
- Experience with GCP services including Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Dataproc or Dataflow, IAM, Workload Identity Federation, and VPC Service Controls.
- Experience with cross-cloud identity federation, private connectivity such as Direct Connect, Cloud Interconnect, and Cross-Cloud Interconnect, and transfer tools such as Storage Transfer Service and DataSync.
- Knowledge of lakehouse architectures, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and open table formats operating across cloud engines.
- Working knowledge of FASTQ, BAM/CRAM, VCF, Parquet, HDF5/AnnData, and Zarr and their implications for storage design.
- Experience with regulated data, compliance frameworks, and secure development practices, along with clear technical communication in English.
- Ability to lead complex engineering efforts across global, cross-functional teams.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree or PhD, pharmaceutical R&D or computational biology experience, GA4GH standards such as DRS, htsget, refget, and Passports, and FAIR data principles.
- Preferred experience includes Nextflow, Snakemake, AWS HealthOmics, Google Cloud Batch, AWS or GCP professional-level certifications, scientific research environments, and directing contractor or vendor resources.
- Travel of up to 10% may be required.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Annual base salary range of $162,900.00 to $271,500.00 for the United States; Tampa, Florida has a separate range of $146,600.00 to $244,400.00.
- Eligibility for Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan, share-based long-term incentive program, and relocation assistance subject to business needs and eligibility.
- 401(k) plan with Pfizer matching contributions and an additional Pfizer retirement savings contribution.
- Paid vacation, holidays, personal days, caregiver/parental leave, and medical leave.
- Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSGitHub ActionsGoogle BigQueryGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformHelmJavaPythonTerraformTypeScript
Categories
Data Engineering
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.