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At our client’s they make medicines and vaccines that change patients’ lives with a global reach of over 780 million patients.
Pfizer Digital is the organization charged with winning the digital race in the pharmaceutical industry. They apply their expertise in technology, innovation and their business to support Pfizer in this mission.
The Biopharma, Patient & CDI (C4) team builds and maintains the platforms and capabilities that enable Pfizer Business Units to connect digitally with their external customers and effectively engage and collaborate across teams internally. This includes all digital (web, mobile, omni-channel, & devices) products, platforms, services, and experiences in service of patients, HCPs, payors, pharmacists, or clinical sites. They build advanced cloud-based technology solutions at a global scale that positively impact Pfizer business performance.
Patient and Marketplace Corp. Affairs: Within C4, the Patient and Marketplace Corp. Affairs team is accountable for delivering patient-facing digital companions and external marketplace solutions to increase customer value and simplify specialty pharma services to ensure patients can acquire Pfizer breakthroughs.The U.S. Channels and Global Web Experience team directly owns and operates Pfizer.com, the operation of their primary U.S. corporate social channels, and the look and feel of their regional corporate sites around the world, consulting and supporting objectives from various stakeholders across the entire company, as well as directly setting objectives and delivering on them.
The Back-End Application Development Sr. Associate contributes to developing and implementing moderately complex cutting-edge solutions for Pfizer’s digital marketing initiatives (specifically, maintaining and expanding upon the code that powers their global corporate websites). The Back-End Application Developer plays a crucial role in Pfizer’s pursuit of breakthroughs by pushing the boundaries of digital experiences and creating captivating solutions that drive patient engagement, knowledge sharing, and commercial success.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Subject Matter Expertise – General
- Develop digital solutions utilizing the latest development tools, frameworks, and platforms to build cutting-edge solutions that deliver exceptional user experiences.
- Implement source code management best practices to maintain high standards of code quality, integrity and consistency.
- Implement best practices in usability, accessibility, and user interface design to ensure seamless and intuitive customer interactions within digital solutions.
- Conduct and document thorough testing, and debugging of digital solutions to identify and resolve any technical issues or performance bottlenecks.
- Ensure compliance with relevant regulations, security protocols, and industry best practices related to application development and deployment.
- Serve as a back-end application developer for Pfizer.com (and functionality shared with their regional sites), performing all tasks necessary from bug fixing and tier 1 support up to advanced, emergency problem-solving and new, complex enhancement requests, in coordination with the Back-end lead, Technical lead, Platform team and other relevant parties.
Strategic Leadership & Delivery
- Participate in the ideation and prototyping of digital solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams to explore new and optimized ways of solution development. Explore and apply new ideas and knowledge in solutioning.
- Make decisions to resolve moderately complex problems.
Cross- Team Collaboration
- Collaborate with the Delivery Lead, Service Owners, and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into digital solutions.
- Participate in design reviews and solution evaluations to ensure alignment with Pfizer’s design strategies and standards.
- Use a variety of communication tools and techniques to explain difficult issues and works to establish consensus.
Coaching and Mentorship
- Stay up-to-date with technologies, trends, and best practices in the field of application development, and contribute to the continuous improvement of Pfizer application development practices.
- Participate in the development of standards, processes, and procedures.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 3+ years or relevant working experience.
- Experience as an individual contributor/practitioner.
- Application development, with strong knowledge and proven experience in Drupal/PHP/MySQL stack development technologies, platforms, and frameworks.
- Experience in Python/Scripting.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban), continuous integration, continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes and JIRA/Confluence.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to debug and optimize simple/medium complexity applications.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment and communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Passion for exploring emerging technologies and driving innovation..
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality, engaging, and user-friendly experiences.
- Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Familiarity with agile development methodologies and project management practices.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Advanced degree or relevant certifications.
- Experience with Microsoft Technology Stack, including .NET framework & SharePoint, and demonstrated understanding of cloud application architectures.
- Experience with microservices architecture, RESTful API integrations and containerization technologies like Docker.
- Knowledge of AWS services like Fargate, S3, Aurora, EFS, Cloud.
- Understanding and awareness of security topics like DDOS Attacks, SQL Injections.
- Understanding and awareness of Drupal’s security concepts like Users, Roles, Permissions, Anonymous user access levels.
- Familiarity with front end modern application frameworks and tools such as node.js, Angular.js, Ionic, Apple Swift, kotlin, Vue.js. and / or back end frameworks and tools such as Java, Laravel, Drupal, Python, PHP.
TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS
- Candidate will be expected to travel globally to Pfizer locations as needed.
