{"id":95251,"title":"Sr. Director, Principal Engineer, Integrative Biology Solutions","company":"Pfizer","city":"Berlin","region":"Berlin","location":"Germany - Berlin","work_model":"unknown","employment_type":"full_time","employment":["full_time"],"roles":["leadership"],"visa":"offered","relocation":"offered","posted_at":"2026-11-03T02:28:20.691951+00:00","tools":["Python","TypeScript","Java","Infrastructure as Code","Terraform","Ansible","CloudFormation","Helm"],"seniority":"lead","years_experience_min":12,"german_requirement":"not_mentioned","german_level":"unspecified","english_requirement":"required","english_level":"unspecified","team_language":"unknown","confidence":0.4,"method":"rules+llm","language_badge":"Not stated","language_evidence":null,"requirements_snippet":"12+ years leading technology, data, or scientific solutions with people management. Bachelor's degree required (Master's or PhD also listed). Skills in Python, TypeScript or Java, IaC, CI/CD, regulated data, and fluent English.","url":"https://pfizer.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/InternalJobs/job/United-States---New-York---New-York-City/Sr-Director--Principal-Engineer--Integrative-Biology-Solutions_4966528","source":"workday","agency":null,"description_text":"Role Summary\n\nDiscovery, Preclinical, and Translational Solutions (DP&TS) sits at the center of Pfizer’s scientific software work, building the digital tools that help researchers move from target identification through clinical translation.\n\nWe’re looking for a Principal Engineer to own the technical direction for the full Integrative Biology ecosystem. This is a people manager role covering strategy, architecture, and delivery across data storage and registration, computational pipelines, interactive analysis, visualization, analytics, and scientific collaboration. You’ll lead a team and partner across scientific, product, engineering, and Digital stakeholders to deliver solutions that are secure, scalable, compliant, and genuinely useful for researchers.\n\nYou’ll need genuine technical breadth across data engineering, computational biology, cloud-native engineering, and analytics, and the ability to earn credibility with both scientists and engineers.\n\nReporting to the Senior Director of Targets and Mechanisms Solutions, you’ll set the technical direction for Integrative Biology Solutions across the division and align it with scientific strategy, enterprise architecture, and financial goals. You’ll directly manage a team of engineers and technical leads, and you’ll also need to get results through contractors, vendors, and matrixed partners who don’t report to you.\n\nYour decisions will have long-term impact across the division, so you’ll need sound judgment on scientific value, technical feasibility, sustainability, financial stewardship, and compliance — often all at once, often across areas where no one person has all the answers.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n• Set Technical Strategy for Integrative Biology Solutions: define and own the architecture, standards, roadmap, and operating model for capabilities supporting scientific data, analysis, visualization, and collaboration across global research teams.\n• Oversee Data Storage, Registration, and Scientific Data Stewardship: lead strategy and delivery for data storage, experiment registration, metadata, provenance, lineage, access control, data quality, and findability capabilities — the foundation that makes Integrative Biology data trustworthy, reusable, and AI-ready.\n• Lead Pipeline Analysis and Computational Workflow Capabilities: oversee computational pipeline and workflow orchestration capabilities for omics, imaging, genetics, proteomics, and other high-dimensional data types.\n• Advance Interactive Analysis, Visualization, and Collaboration: sponsor interactive analysis, dashboards, shared workspaces, and collaboration capabilities that give scientists secure, practical environments for their work.\n• Lead People, Resources, and Delivery Outcomes: manage a team of technical leads, engineers, and analysts. Deploy people, vendor, and financial resources against priorities, and build a team culture grounded in ownership, technical rigor, and measurable impact.\n• Influence Senior Leadership and Cross-Functional Direction: translate scientific needs, technical risk, and delivery options into clear recommendations that shape divisional and enterprise priorities.\n• Drive Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Operational Excellence: lead improvements in reliability, scalability, security, cost, and scientific value across both ongoing operations and longer-term platform evolution.\n• Solve Highly Complex and Cross-Disciplinary Problems: solve complex, cross-disciplinary problems spanning scientific domains, data lifecycle, regulated research requirements, cloud engineering, and analytics.\n\nBasic Qualifications\n\nEducation:\n• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Bioinformatics, Engineering, or related discipline)\n\nExperience:\n• 12+ years of progressive experience leading complex technology, data, analytics, computational biology, bioinformatics, or scientific research solutions, including significant people management and cross-functional leadership accountability\n• Experience setting technical strategy and leading delivery for data storage, registration, metadata, pipeline analysis, interactive analysis, visualization, and collaboration capabilities in a scientific or regulated enterprise environment\n• Demonstrated success managing people, budgets, vendor resources, and matrixed delivery teams while influencing senior leaders and decisions with long-term business or functional impact\n• Recognized expertise in integrative biology, computational biology, bioinformatics, data engineering, cloud-native platforms, DevSecOps, or related disciplines, with the ability to operate across areas outside a single technical specialty\n\nTechnical Skills\n• Proficiency in Python, Typescript, Java, or other modern high-level language\n• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Helm) and CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions)\n• Deep understanding of modern data architectures (e.g., lakehouses, distributed systems)\n\nOther Requirements\n• Demonstrated experience in working with regulated data, compliance frameworks, and secure development practices\n• Ability to lead complex engineering efforts across global, cross-functional teams\n• Fluent in English; capable of clear technical communication across scientific and engineering disciplines\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nEducation\n• Master’s or PhD in in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Bioinformatics, Engineering, or related discipline)\n\nDomain Expertise\n• Experience supporting pharmaceutical R&D, life sciences, or computational biology\n• Familiarity with biomedical data standards (e.g., HL7 FHIR, CDISC) and FAIR data principles\n\nTechnical Leadership\n• Recognized internal or external technical thought leadership in integrative biology, omics data ecosystems, computational research environments, AI-ready data products, or scientific analytics capabilities\n• Strong record of building, managing, and developing high-performing technical teams, including leaders and individual contributors, in high-complexity global environments\n\nStrategic Capabilities\n• Ability to sponsor and lead teams that set strategic direction across a division or global business unit, including decisions that may create long-term business opportunity or risk\n• Experience influencing senior management decisions at the intersection of science, technology, operating model design, financial stewardship, and enterprise risk management\n\nTravel requirements:\n• Travel up to 10% may be required for business activities.\n\nLast Date to Apply for Job: 11/9/2026\n\nThe annual base salary for this position ranges from $214,900.00 to $358,100.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 22.5% 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.\n\n
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.

\n\nRelocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.\n\nCandidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.\nU.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.\n\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.\n\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. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.\n\nPfizer endeavors to make www.pfizer.com/careers accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process and/or interviewing, please email [entfernt]. This is to be used solely for accommodation requests with respect to the accessibility of our website, online application process and/or interviewing. Requests for any other reason will not be returned.\n\nTo learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers.\n\nInformation & Business Tech","responsibilities_text":"• Set Technical Strategy for Integrative Biology Solutions: define and own the architecture, standards, roadmap, and operating model for capabilities supporting scientific data, analysis, visualization, and collaboration across global research teams.\n• Oversee Data Storage, Registration, and Scientific Data Stewardship: lead strategy and delivery for data storage, experiment registration, metadata, provenance, lineage, access control, data quality, and findability capabilities — the foundation that makes Integrative Biology data trustworthy, reusable, and AI-ready.\n• Lead Pipeline Analysis and Computational Workflow Capabilities: oversee computational pipeline and workflow orchestration capabilities for omics, imaging, genetics, proteomics, and other high-dimensional data types.\n• Advance Interactive Analysis, Visualization, and Collaboration: sponsor interactive analysis, dashboards, shared workspaces, and collaboration capabilities that give scientists secure, practical environments for their work.\n• Lead People, Resources, and Delivery Outcomes: manage a team of technical leads, engineers, and analysts. Deploy people, vendor, and financial resources against priorities, and build a team culture grounded in ownership, technical rigor, and measurable impact.\n• Influence Senior Leadership and Cross-Functional Direction: translate scientific needs, technical risk, and delivery options into clear recommendations that shape divisional and enterprise priorities.\n• Drive Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Operational Excellence: lead improvements in reliability, scalability, security, cost, and scientific value across both ongoing operations and longer-term platform evolution.\n• Solve Highly Complex and Cross-Disciplinary Problems: solve complex, cross-disciplinary problems spanning scientific domains, data lifecycle, regulated research requirements, cloud engineering, and analytics.","requirements_text":"Education:\n• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Bioinformatics, Engineering, or related discipline)\nExperience:\n• 12+ years of progressive experience leading complex technology, data, analytics, computational biology, bioinformatics, or scientific research solutions, including significant people management and cross-functional leadership accountability\n• Experience setting technical strategy and leading delivery for data storage, registration, metadata, pipeline analysis, interactive analysis, visualization, and collaboration capabilities in a scientific or regulated enterprise environment\n• Demonstrated success managing people, budgets, vendor resources, and matrixed delivery teams while influencing senior leaders and decisions with long-term business or functional impact\n• Recognized expertise in integrative biology, computational biology, bioinformatics, data engineering, cloud-native platforms, DevSecOps, or related disciplines, with the ability to operate across areas outside a single technical specialty\nTechnical Skills\n• Proficiency in Python, Typescript, Java, or other modern high-level language\n• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Helm) and CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions)\n• Deep understanding of modern data architectures (e.g., lakehouses, distributed systems)\nOther Requirements\n• Demonstrated experience in working with regulated data, compliance frameworks, and secure development practices\n• Ability to lead complex engineering efforts across global, cross-functional teams\n• Fluent in English; capable of clear technical communication across scientific and engineering disciplines\nEducation\n• Master’s or PhD in in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Bioinformatics, Engineering, or related discipline)\nDomain Expertise\n• Experience supporting pharmaceutical R&D, life sciences, or computational biology\n• Familiarity with biomedical data standards (e.g., HL7 FHIR, CDISC) and FAIR data principles\nTechnical Leadership\n• Recognized internal or external technical thought leadership in integrative biology, omics data ecosystems, computational research environments, AI-ready data products, or scientific analytics capabilities\n• Strong record of building, managing, and developing high-performing technical teams, including leaders and individual contributors, in high-complexity global environments\nStrategic Capabilities\n• Ability to sponsor and lead teams that set strategic direction across a division or global business unit, including decisions that may create long-term business opportunity or risk\n• Experience influencing senior management decisions at the intersection of science, technology, operating model design, financial stewardship, and enterprise risk management\nTravel requirements:\n• Travel up to 10% may be required for business activities.\nLast Date to Apply for Job: 11/9/2026\nThe annual base salary for this position ranges from $214,900.00 to $358,100.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 22.5% 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.\n
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.

\nRelocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.\nCandidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.\nU.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.\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. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.\nPfizer endeavors to make www.pfizer.com/careers accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process and/or interviewing, please email [entfernt]. This is to be used solely for accommodation requests with respect to the accessibility of our website, online application process and/or interviewing. Requests for any other reason will not be returned.\nTo learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers.\nInformation & Business Tech","status":"open","duplicate_of":null,"first_seen":"2026-11-04T02:28:45.872444+00:00","responsibilities_summary":"Set technical strategy and lead delivery of data storage, registration, pipeline analysis, visualization and collaboration platforms. Manage people, budgets, vendors and matrixed teams, and influence senior leaders on long-term business decisions.","requirements_summary":"12+ years leading technology, data, or scientific solutions with people management. Bachelor's degree required (Master's or PhD also listed). Skills in Python, TypeScript or Java, IaC, CI/CD, regulated data, and fluent English.","all_tools":["Python","TypeScript","Java","Infrastructure as Code","Terraform","Ansible","CloudFormation","Helm","CI/CD","GitHub Actions","GitHub","R"],"posting_language":"en","evidence":[{"language":"english","requirement":"required","quote":"Fluent in English; capable of clear technical communication across scientific and engineering disciplines","source":"rules"}],"years_experience_max":null,"mobility_evidence":[{"kind":"visa","quote":"work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.","value":"offered"},{"kind":"relocation","quote":"Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.","value":"offered"}],"model_version":"claude-haiku-5-5","english_badge":"English required","company_id":4437}