Medical Analytics Data Engineer

Pfizer Inc.; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance may be available

Job summary

Pfizer Inc. is looking for a Data Engineer in Montreal, Quebec. The role focuses on developing and optimizing data architecture and pipelines to enhance analytics and support ongoing projects.

Candidates should have over 7 years of experience in data engineering within the healthcare sector and a degree in a relevant field. The position requires excellent communication skills, the ability to work collaboratively across teams, and a strong understanding of pharmaceutical business practices.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, particularly in healthcare.
• Proven ability to work in cross-functional business environments.
• Strong interpersonal skills for building rapport with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain data infrastructure for projects.
• Partner with product managers to architect solutions.
• Ensure adherence to data practices and contribute to analytics development.

Skills

Data engineering

Healthcare knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Effective communication

Analytical thinking

Education

Degree in Computer Sciences, Statistics, or similar

Job description

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain data infrastructure
• Design, develop, optimize, and maintain data architecture and pipelines (e.g., feeding medical data sources into data lake for ongoing projects)
• Partner with product manager and data lead to develop technical architectures for analytical models
• Identify data inputs needed to conduct analytics (e.g., claims data for unmet need analysis)
• Gather, prepares, and maintains datasets required to perform analytics
• Oversee data systems holding in close collaboration with data mgmt. lead and ensure accurate collection, storage, and processing of data within team
• Enhance data infrastructure for greater scalability and optimize data delivery (e.g., automating manual processes to retrieve medical data)

• Support analytics development
• Solve complex data problems to deliver insights that helps the team produce the required analytics
• Create data products for analytics and data scientist team members to improve their productivity and facilitate team collaboration

• Ensure adherence to data practices and standards
• Advise, consult, mentor and coach other data and analytic colleagues on data standards and practices
• Foster a culture of sharing, re-use, design for scale stability, and operational efficiency of data and analytical solutions
• Lead the evaluation, implementation and deployment of emerging tools and analytic data engineering process in order to improve team productivity

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Computer Sciences, Statistics, Clinical Informatics or similar
• Relevant certification &/or work experience in data engineering
• Experience (7+ years) in data engineering, notably in the healthcare sector
• Demonstrated effectiveness working in cross-functional business environment
• Proven influencing skills
• Strong interpersonal skills to quickly build rapport and credibility with Pfizer leaders and key external stakeholders
• Ability to partner cross culturally/regionally
• Effective English verbal and written communication with flexibility to be clear, consistent, compliant, and appropriate for a variety of settings including scientific/technical, promotional, patient/consumer, regulatory, and media
• In depth understanding of the business of pharmaceutical medicine including clinical trial design, GCP and data interpretation, drug development, regulatory and promotional rules/guidance, legal and compliance, issue management and business development opportunity evaluations

Technical

• Anticipates Customer and Market Needs – Knows the industry; knowledgeable in current and possible future trends, knows the competition; is aware of how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace. Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customer's; always focused on patient safety first, establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Acts Decisively – Makes timely and effective decisions by applying business and financial acumen. Acts with urgency and removes barriers that hinder productivity. Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Builds Change-Agile Organizations – Develops teams that are facile at initiating and responding to change. Aligns teams and processes to support sustainable change.
• Designs and leads teams that are flexible and adaptive.
• Strategic and Innovating Thinking – Demonstrates insightful thinking by developing creative approaches to business models and strategies and creates an environment to encourage others to do the same.
• Grows Leaders – Actively coaches and develops talent. Builds leadership bench strength for Pfizer. Provides opportunities and experiences to develop skills, competencies, and business knowledge.
• Is a role model of Pfizer’s values and behaviors.
• Drive transformational change
• Lead teams and engage diverse stakeholders
• Understand the applications of technology to the Life Science sector

Non-Standard Work Schedule, Travel or Environment Requirements

• Travel as required, up to 40% of role

Other Job Details

• Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

Note: The following items were present in the original description but have been removed as they are administrative or promotional in nature (e.g., dates, benefits details, recruitment disclosures) to focus on the role responsibilities and qualifications.

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