Data Ops Engineer
- Pfizer
- 8 - 13 years
- Mumbai
- 3 days ago
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Job Description
As a As a Commercial AI Analytics Solutions & Engineering Senior Manager, your responsibilities will include architecting and implementing AI solutions at scale for Pfizer. You will iteratively develop and continuously improve data science workflows, AI based software solutions, and AI components.
What You Will Achieve
- DataOps & Analytics Platform Execution
- Lead the design, build, and operation of data and analytics platforms supporting commercial reporting, advanced analytics, and AI/ML use cases.
- Own operational pipelines for batch and streaming data ingestion, transformation, and serving, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Implement and maintain DataOps automation using CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and configuration management to support analytics and ML workloads.
- Partner with infrastructure and platform teams to ensure data platforms are deployed using standardized cloud-native patterns (AWS/Azure).
- Translate Director-level analytics platform strategy into working, production-grade data systems.
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- Data Reliability, Quality & Observability
- Own end-to-end data reliability, including freshness, completeness, accuracy, and avalability across analytics and AI pipelines.
- Implement data observability and monitoring capabilities (e. g. , pipeline health, schema drift, SLA/SLO tracking).
- Define and track data reliability KPIs, such as pipeline failure rates, data incident frequency, and recovery time.
- Lead response to data incidents, including root-cause analysis, remediation plans, and post-incident reviews.
- Drive adoption of data reliability engineering (DRE) and SRE-inspired practices within DataOps teams.
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- Testing & Quality Enablement for Data Pipelines
- Define and enforce data testing standards, including:
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- Data quality checks (schema, nulls, ranges, distributions)
- Pipeline validation and reconciliation
- Regression testing for analytics transformations
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- Embed automated data tests into CI/CD workflows to support shift-left DataOps practices.
- Partner with analytics, ML, and QA teams to support non-functional testing such as:
- Performance and scalability of data pipelines
- Reliability under load and failure scenarios
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- Track and report data quality and defect escape metrics, using insights to drive continuous improvement.
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- AI & Advanced Analytics Enablement
- Enable data scientists and ML engineers by ensuring trusted, well-governed, and production-ready data assets.
- Support operational analytics and AI workflows by providing:
- Reliable feature pipelines
- Versioned and reproducible datasets
- Secure access to structured and unstructured data
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- Partner with AI and analytics leaders to support MLOps integration points, such as:
- Data lineage for model training
- Monitoring of data drift and input quality
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- Contribute to data governance standards for lineage, traceability, and stewardship across analytics lifecycles.
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- People Leadership & Ways of Working
- Coach engineers on:
- Data pipeline design and optimization
- Automation and reliability practices
- Secure and compliant data handling
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- Establish strong engineering discipline through design reviews, data contracts, documentation, and operational runbooks.
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- Partner closely with product, analytics, AI, and infrastructure leaders to sequence delivery and manage trade-offs.
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or DataOps roles.
- Strong hands-on experience building and operating production data pipelines in AWS or Azure environments.
- Proven expertise in:
- Modern data processing frameworks (e. g. , Spark, SQL-based transformation tools)
- CI/CD and automation for data platforms
- Data pipeline orchestration and monitoring
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- Solid understanding of testing and quality practices for data systems, including:
- Automated data quality testing
- Pipeline validation and regression testing
- Supporting non-functional testing (performance, reliability, scalability)
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- Experience implementing data observability, monitoring, and incident management practices.
- Demonstrated experience with secure data handling and governance, including access control and compliance-aware environments.
- Proficiency in programming and scripting (e. g. , Python, SQL, Scala, Bash).
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional teams and deliver outcomes through others.
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)
- Master s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Analytics, or related field.
- Experience supporting AI/ML workloads and feature pipelines in production.
- Familiarity with MLOps concepts related to data (e. g. , training data lineage, drift detection).
- Background in data reliability engineering, SRE, or large-scale distributed data systems.
- Relevant certifications:
- Cloud (AWS/Azure) Professional
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- Data engineering or analytics platform certifications
Job Classification
Industry: Pharmaceutical & Life SciencesFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QARole Category: Software DevelopmentRole: Data EngineerEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: PfizerLocation(s): Mumbai+ View Contact
Keyskills: Computer science Automation Configuration management Reconciliation Data processing Incident management Analytics Monitoring SQL Python
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