Senior Associate - Software Engineer

Role Summary

Use Your Power for Purpose

At Pfizer, technology drives everything we do. Our digital and 'data first' strategy focuses on implementing innovative and impactful technology solutions across all functions, from research to manufacturing. Whether you are digitizing drug discovery and development, identifying innovative solutions, or streamlining our processes, you will be making a significant impact on countless lives.

What You Will Achieve

In this role, you will:

• Apply your skills and knowledge to support work within the team, making decisions to resolve moderately complex problems within guidelines and policies.

• Use your judgment to modify methods and techniques as needed.

• Develop and maintain robust software solutions, including coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and implementation.

• Collaborate with technical resources and end-users to enhance system robustness and usability.

• Understand and interpret business needs to develop prototypes, recommend improvements, and devise innovative solutions, while documenting and transferring knowledge to colleagues.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Delivery: Own feature delivery from design through deployment, making sound technical trade-offs to ship value on time

• AI: Integrate AI capabilities into solutions, critically evaluate AI-generated code, and never ship code you don't understand

• People: Mentor junior engineers on technical topics, contribute to hiring through interviews, and actively build team knowledge

• Business: Translate business needs into technical solutions, manage stakeholder expectations, and articulate technical decisions in business terms

• Process: Contribute to process improvement, maintain team workflows, and coordinate with adjacent team members

• Documentation: Create clear documentation for features you build, contribute to team knowledge bases, and update docs proactively

ROLE BEHAVIOURS

• Don't Lose Your Curiosity: Proactively investigates root causes; experiments with new technologies and AI capabilities; protects time for exploration; treats failure as learning; discovers requirements through immersion in problem spaces

• Own the Outcome: Takes end-to-end ownership of features and business outcomes; accepts technical debt intentionally when it accelerates value; builds trust through rapid delivery of working solutions; owns stakeholder relationships; balances quality with delivery speed

• Be Polymath Oriented: Applies knowledge from one domain to inform decisions in another; studies adjacent fields like design, business, or science; begins learning domain language of business partners

• Communicate with Precision: Writes clear documentation and specifications; reduces ambiguity in requirements; crafts effective prompts for AI tools; adapts communication style for different audiences

• Think in Systems: Identifies upstream and downstream impacts; uses observability tools to trace requests across services; understands feedback loops; maps dependencies before making changes

WORKING-LEVEL SKILLS

• AI-Augmented Development: You integrate AI tools strategically into your development workflow. You review AI-generated code with the same rigor as human code and never ship code you don't fully understand.

• Business Immersion: You apply deep domain knowledge to technical solutions, bridge business and technology conversations fluently, speak the domain language naturally, and shadow operations to build understanding.

• Data Integration: You integrate multiple data sources independently, clean messy datasets, handle inconsistent formats and missing values, and document data lineage. You troubleshoot integration failures.

• Full-Stack Development: You deliver complete features end-to-end independently—frontend, backend, database, and infrastructure (CloudFormation/Terraform). You make pragmatic technology choices and deploy what you build.