Why Patients Need You

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.

The Solution Engineer is a member of the Research & Development (R&D) Creation Center organization.   Our mission is to help bring medicines to patients through the delivery of impactful and sustainable technology solutions for the research and development functions of Pfizer.  This is accomplished by providing the talent for technology planning, project execution, application development, and application deployment excellence. 

What You Will Achieve

The Research Materials and Chemistry are portfolios within Medicinal Sciences enabling the Synthesis and Analysis of novel compounds as well as the Inventory Management and Stewardship of our compound collection, and the Ordering and Order Fulfillment of that collection.  Our customers include chemists and biologists engaged in early chemical Design and Synthesis, and Analysis, as well as Sample Logistics teams using Large and Small-scale lab automation to assist in those workflow processes.

The Software Engineer (SE) for our group acts as a key technical resource for our rapidly evolving portfolio of solutions in the Chemistry and Research Materials areas within Medicine Design.  The SE analyzes specifications, designs logic, writes code, customizes products, tests, debugs, and documents software applications.   The SE acts as a technical subject matter expert on in-house, outsourced, or co-sourced developed global applications.  With hundreds of applications within the R & D Core Solutions portfolio, there is a tremendous opportunity to learn different technologies and business areas.

How You Will Achieve It

• Work with project teams as an individual contributor to design, prototype, implement and unit test software solutions in support of the Research & Development organization.
• Work as a technical lead/lead developer on small-to-medium size software development projects, which may include accountability for the work of a small number of other staff and/or contract Software Engineers, as well as responsibility for dictating and managing coding standards -- coding process, source code control, versioning, etc.
• Translate logical designs of user/system interfaces into physical designs, considering the target environment, performance requirements and existing systems.
• Help produce detailed design specifications where applicable, and documents all work using required standards, methods, and tools, including prototyping tools, where appropriate.
• Conduct reviews of supplied specifications as appropriate.
• Define the integration build and produces a build definition for generation of the software.
• Work in a matrix, team environment with Pfizer colleagues as well as vendor partners.
• Dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Bachelor’s degree required, major in a technical field such as Software Engineering,Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Technology or Life Sciences, or other engineering discipline.
• 3+ Years of experience in software engineering
• Facilitation, negotiating and presentation skills.
• Experience working in ambiguous situations.
• Demonstrated experience and skills in analysis and problem solving.
• Demonstrated experience using standard requirements business analysis techniques, including brainstorming, interviewing, requirements sessions, activity diagrams and use cases.
• Demonstrated experience and/or demonstrated competencies either informally or formally contributing on various-size teams of technologists, IT professionals or project managers using Agile, DevOps, and other approaches for iterative development.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work effectively in team settings, frequently in virtual teams with client partner and customer engagement responsibilities.
• Demonstrated ability to developing multi-tiered solutions in an OOP programming language including Java, C#, Python, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to understand data and integration architectures to manage, transform, and exploit data across the enterprise.
• Demonstrated capability to understand security requirements, and using the frameworks and tools the organization has put in place to meet those requirements.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Nice-to-Have

• Knowledge of web technologies and frameworks such as Javascript, HTML, CSS, Node.js, React, Angular, et al
• Chemistry and/or biology knowledge

 
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