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This is a hands-on role: you’ll design, build, and maintain the capabilities that determine how biological research data gets stored, registered, and accessed. You’ll partner with the aligned capability lead to scope and prioritize what gets built, and work across scientific, product, and engineering stakeholders to deliver solutions that are secure, scalable, and useful for researchers.\nYou’ll work hands-on in AWS and GCP, building storage and data services that span both clouds and hold large omics datasets (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, imaging). You’ll need depth in large-scale data management and cross-cloud integration, plus enough scientific fluency to earn credibility with computational biologists and engineers alike.\nReporting to the Principal Engineer, Integrative Biology Solutions, you’ll define the technical direction for data storage and registration within the Integrative Biology space, aligning with scientific strategy, regulatory requirements, and enterprise architecture. You’re expected to be hands-on writing and reviewing real code, not just directing while also setting the standards and patterns that guide contractors and cross-functional teams. You’ll lead contractor teams as needed to extend capacity.\nYou’re the primary technical owner: individual engineering depth combined with cross-functional leadership. The problems are real, large-scale, heterogeneous scientific data with strict regulatory requirements, and the solutions need to hold up at research scale.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn and Lead Data Storage and Registration Solutions: own data storage and registration end-to-end: design, implementation, and maintenance. Work with the Capability Lead to prioritize and scope features. Lead contractors as needed to extend capacity.\nOversee Data Storage, Registration, and Scientific Data Stewardship: design and implement scalable data storage, experiment registration, metadata, provenance, lineage, access control, and findability capabilities. Set the storage, metadata, and stewardship standards that make Integrative Biology omics data trustworthy, reusable, and AI-ready across AWS and GCP.\nDefine Standards and Best Practices: establish and maintain standards, architectural patterns, and governance frameworks for the capability area. Get them documented and adopted by delivery teams and contractors.\nCollaborate with Capability Lead and Business Stakeholders: work closely with the R&D capability lead to understand business needs, translate scientific requirements into technical solutions, and keep the backlog prioritized. Be the technical partner scientists and product stakeholders can rely on.\nLead Contractor Teams and Drive Delivery: direct contractors as needed: provide technical guidance, review their work, and hold the line on quality, scope, and timelines.\nProvide Technical Guidance and Architecture Leadership: make and document key technical decisions, review designs and implementations, and guide technical direction for contractors and cross-functional partners in the capability area.\nDrive Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Operational Excellence: identify and address technical debt, performance issues, and security gaps. Keep the platform moving forward in line with changing research and business needs.\nSolve Highly Complex and Cross-Disciplinary Problems: solve complex data engineering and storage challenges: large-scale heterogeneous scientific data, demanding research workflows, and the compliance requirements that come with a regulated environment.\nBuild and Operate Cross-Cloud Storage and Data Services: design and implement storage, registration, and data access capabilities across AWS and GCP. Own identity federation, network connectivity, data movement, and replication between clouds so researchers can work with data where it lives without duplicating it.\nManage Data Lifecycle, Performance, and Cost at Scale: define storage tiering, retention, archival, and egress policies for very large omics datasets. Monitor storage and transfer costs and tune for throughput on high-volume analytical and pipeline workloads.\nBasic Qualifications\nEducation: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Bioinformatics, Engineering, or related discipline)\nExperience:\n8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, data engineering, or solution engineering roles, with demonstrated hands-on delivery of complex data storage, registration, or related platform capabilities.\nProven experience designing, building, and maintaining data storage and registration solutions in a scientific or regulated enterprise environment, including hands-on implementation accountability.\nExperience defining standards, best practices, and technical patterns within a capability or domain area, and driving their adoption across delivery teams.\nStrong technical background in data engineering, cloud-native platforms, and software development, with the ability to contribute individually and lead contractor teams toward delivery outcomes.\nHands-on experience designing and operating storage and data services in both AWS and GCP, including at least one production system that integrates data or services across the two clouds.\nExperience managing very large scientific or research datasets (hundreds of terabytes to petabytes), including tiering, lifecycle management, performance tuning, and cost control.\nTechnical Skills\nProficiency in Python, Typescript, Java, or other modern high-level language\nExpertise in infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Helm) and CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions)\nAWS: S3 (including storage classes and Glacier), IAM, Lake Formation, Glue, Athena, and high-throughput file storage such as FSx for Lustre.\nGCP: Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Dataproc or Dataflow, IAM and Workload Identity Federation, and VPC Service Controls.\nCross-cloud integration: identity federation between AWS and GCP, private connectivity (Direct Connect, Cloud Interconnect, Cross-Cloud Interconnect), data transfer and replication tooling (e.g., Storage Transfer Service, DataSync), and egress cost management.\nModern data architectures: lakehouse patterns and open table formats (Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake) that work across cloud engines.\nOmics data: working knowledge of common formats (FASTQ, BAM/CRAM, VCF, Parquet, HDF5/AnnData, Zarr) and how their size and access patterns affect storage design.\nOther Requirements\nDemonstrated experience in working with regulated data, compliance frameworks, and secure development practices\nAbility to lead complex engineering efforts across global, cross-functional teams\nFluent in English; capable of clear technical communication across scientific and engineering disciplines\nPreferred Qualifications\nEducation: Master’s or PhD in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Bioinformatics, Engineering, or related discipline)\nDomain Expertise\nExperience supporting pharmaceutical R&D, life sciences, or computational biology\nFamiliarity with GA4GH standards for omics data (DRS, htsget, refget, Passports) and FAIR data principles\nExperience with scientific workflow platforms such as Nextflow, Snakemake, AWS HealthOmics, or Google Cloud Batch.\nAWS or GCP professional-level certifications, such as Solutions Architect Professional or Professional Cloud Architect.\nTechnical Leadership\nRecognized internal or external technical thought leadership in integrative biology, omics data ecosystems, computational research environments, AI-ready data products, or scientific analytics capabilities\nExperience directing contractor teams or vendor resources on technical delivery, including providing technical guidance, reviewing work, and maintaining quality standards\nStrategic Capabilities\nFamiliarity with research environments and how data scientists and computational biologists work, including their tooling preferences and data workflows\nExperience working with large volumes of scientific or research data, including understanding the technical challenges of data at scale (performance, storage costs, data quality, heterogeneous formats, findability)\nTravel Requirements\nTravel up to 10% may be required for business activities.\nCandidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.\nNON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS\nTravel up to 10% may be required for business activities.\nWork Location Assignment: Hybrid\nLast Date to Apply for Job: 11/30/2026\nThe annual base salary for this position ranges from $162,900.00 to $271,500.00.* In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 20.0% 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.* The annual base salary for this position in Tampa, FL ranges from $146,600.00 to $244,400.00.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.\nSunshine Act\nPfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider’s name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.\nEEO & Employment Eligibility\nPfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. 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