Manager, Data Warehouse Platform & Operations Engineer

Pfizer (Internaljobs); New York (NY); On-site; USD 99,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Pfizer is seeking a Data Platform & Operations Engineer to expand the Pfizer Global Supply OPS platform. You will drive adoption, coordinate data products across sites, and contribute to real-time data integration from shop-floor to a Snowflake-based data lake.

Strong data warehousing, SQL, and cloud skills are essential. The role partners with Digital Manufacturing, Site teams, and Enterprise Analytics to onboard high-value use cases and ensure governance, metadata, and secure data sharing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with relevant data/platform experience.
• Experience shaping data products, data models, and shared data services.
• Experience influencing platform priorities and communicating outcomes to stakeholders.
• Knowledge of modern data warehousing, cloud platforms, and DataOps concepts.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption and value realization of the PGS OPS platform across Manufacturing and Quality.
• Develop adoption plans to expand platform usage and data product reuse.
• Identify capability gaps and partner with Digital to deliver enhancements.
• Define and deliver reusable data products aligned to manufacturing and quality concepts.
• Apply domain knowledge to shape useful data products for production and quality.

Skills

Data warehousing

SQL

Cloud data platforms

Data modelling

Data integration

Governance

DataOps concepts

Influence without authority

Platform priorities communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree (MS/PhD)

Tools

Snowflake

Snowpark / Streams / Tasks / Dynamic Tables

Cortex

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Collibra

Acceldata

Job description

Use Your Power for Purpose

Technology impacts everything we do. Pfizer’s digital and ‘data first’ strategy focuses on implementing impactful and innovative technology solutions across all functions from research to manufacturing. Whether you are digitizing drug discovery and development, identifying solutions, or making our work easier and faster, you will be making a difference to countless lives. You will be instrumental in building and managing our database management systems, utilizing your technical expertise to design, develop, analyze, and install these systems. Your role will encompass database modeling and design, relational database architecture, metadata, and repository creation, as well as configuration management.

Role Summary

Pfizer Global Supply (PGS) is transforming how data powers its end-to-end supply network.

The Data Platform & Operations Engineer will drive adoption, value realization, and continued expansion of the Pfizer Global Supply Operations focused on Manufacturing & Network Operations. The role will coordinate delivery of new capabilities, support continuous modernization and innovation, and help establish PGS OPS as a trusted foundation for operational analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and reusable manufacturing and quality data products. The incumbent will partner with Digital Manufacturing, Site teams, and Enterprise Analytics to onboard high-value use cases and operational data sources. The role requires broad manufacturing-domain knowledge and an understanding of how near real-time data is collected from shop-floor and quality-laboratory systems, contextualized, governed, and integrated into Snowflake-based data lake and consumption environments. Strong working knowledge of data warehousing, Structured Query Language (SQL), Snowflake, Cortex capabilities, AI agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) is required to guide decisions and assess solution designs, without serving as the primary hands-on engineering delivery role.

Role Responsibilitie s

• Drive adoption and value realization of the PGS OPS platform across Manufacturing and Quality by identifying priority sites, users, data products, and operational use cases.
• Develop and execute adoption plans that expand platform utilization, self-service access, and reuse of operational data products across sites and functional teams.
• Support continuous modernization of PGS OPS by identifying capability gaps, assessing emerging operational-data and AI capabilities, recommending priorities, and partnering with Digital to deliver approved enhancements.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Sites, Enterprise Analytics, and Digital teams to define and deliver reusable operational data products aligned to common manufacturing and quality concepts and business outcomes.
• Apply manufacturing-domain knowledge across production execution, process monitoring, asset performance, batch operations, quality control, laboratory operations, and operational excellence to shape useful data products.
• Maintain a broad understanding of near real-time shop-floor and laboratory integration patterns, including how data from manufacturing execution systems, process control systems, historians, equipment, and laboratory information management systems is extracted, contextualized, transformed, reconciled, governed, and made available in PGS OPS.
• Coordinate onboarding of new manufacturing sites, source systems, and data domains while promoting consistent metadata, lineage, data quality, security, and reusable integration patterns.
• Guide responsible use of Snowflake and relevant Cortex capabilities, including practical standards for AI agents and MCP solutions, while maintaining sufficient technical depth to assess designs and alignment with platform direction.
• Develop and automate scorecards measuring platform adoption, data-product health, consumption, operational performance, business value, and AI readiness; use insights to support prioritization and continuous improvement.

Basic Qualifications

• Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with at least 4 years of experience; OR a master's degree with at least 2 years of experience; OR a PhD with 0+ years of experience; OR as associate's degree with 8 years of experience; OR a high school diploma (or equivalent) and 10 years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience supporting platform or product roadmaps, driving adoption, introducing new capabilities, and translating business priorities into scalable technology outcomes.
• Experience defining or managing data products, common data models, consumption layers, or shared data services for multiple business and technology consumer groups.
• Strong working knowledge of modern data warehousing, SQL, cloud data platforms, data modeling, data integration, performance, security, governance, and DataOps concepts sufficient to guide decisions and evaluate solution designs.
• Experience with Snowflake or a comparable modern cloud data platform and familiarity with analytics and AI consumption patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and communicate platform priorities, trade-offs, measures, and outcomes to business, Enterprise Analytics, Digital, architecture, and engineering stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a relevant discipline.
• Experience with Snowflake capabilities such as Snowpark, Streams, Tasks, Dynamic Tables, secure data sharing, and Snowflake Cortex.
• Experience with AI-ready data products, AI agents, MCP, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic layers, ontologies, knowledge graphs, or governed AI-consumption patterns.
• Experience developing platform-adoption, data-product-health, DataOps, cost, value-realization, or AI-readiness scorecards and dashboards.
• Experience with metadata, catalog, lineage, data quality, observability, and governed-access capabilities, including tools such as Collibra and Acceldata.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing, supply chain, quality, GxP, or other regulated data environments.
• Experience operating in a federated model that combines business ownership with Digital engineering and platform delivery.

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Ability to perform complex analysis and exercise sound judgment across interdependent business, data, platform, architecture, financial, and technology considerations. Ability to evaluate detailed roadmaps, solution designs, adoption measures, and scorecards where requirements or priorities may be incomplete or competing.

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

This is a global role requiring collaboration across time zones. Periodic domestic and international travel may be required based on business need. Occasional participation outside standard local working hours may be necessary to support global workshops, roadmap reviews, releases, or critical delivery activities.

OTHER INFORMATION

• Last Date to Apply: October 28, 2026
• This role is not eligible for fully remote work

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $99,200.00 to $165,400.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 12.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.This role is posted in multiple locations. If you are applying for the role in an secondary job posting location where pay transparency regulations apply, your Talent Advisor will share the local pay information with you during the first interview.

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

Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.

U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.

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EEO & Employment Eligibility

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