# Senior Associate, Data Engineering & Semantics

**Company**: Pfizer
**Location**: Shanghai - Shanghai
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Associate to join our Commercial Excellence & Innovation (CEI) - Digital & Technology (Data Engineering & Semantics) team.

The Senior Associate is a hands-on specialist within Data Engineering & Semantics, executing assigned work within capability squads and CEI PODs across data engineering, data products, technical semantics and data quality.

**Key Accountabilities:**

- Deliver assigned data engineering, data product or data-quality work to agreed acceptance criteria and quality standards.

- Contribute hands-on build, testing, documentation, monitoring or support for Data Engineering across L1–L4 , ingestion, integration, transformation, storage and serving for structured, unstructured and knowledge data, and reporting and business intelligence foundations.

- Contribute hands-on build, testing, documentation, monitoring or support for Data Product Management , reusable, governed data products and data agents, including the CL layer of the AI Empowered Consumption Layer (AICL) and agent-facing data contracts.

- Contribute hands-on build, testing, documentation, monitoring or support for Technical Semantics , semantic models, metadata, taxonomies and technical mappings that implement DSM-approved business definitions and harmonized KPIs.

- Contribute hands-on build, testing, documentation, monitoring or support for Data Trust & Reliability Engineering , technical data governance controls, shift-left data quality checks, lineage, observability and China data, privacy and cross-border controls.

- Use approved AI-assisted engineering and analysis tools with rigorous human verification.

- Create technical specifications, data mappings, test evidence and reusable knowledge assets, and escalate blockers promptly.

**Required Capabilities & Competencies:**

- Hands-on data engineering , ingestion, transformation, SQL and Python, data modeling and reporting and business intelligence foundations.

- Working knowledge of semantic models, metadata, data products, data quality, lineage and data access for AI retrieval.

- Documentation, observability and lifecycle basics, applying privacy and security practices.

- Hands-on POD delivery and collaboration with GCA DSM, AITO engineers, production engineering, PIC and partners.

- Reliable, detail-oriented delivery with clear documentation and a collaborative, learning mindset.

- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems or a related computing discipline.

- 5+ years of progressive relevant experience based on a bachelor’s degree, where a master’s or doctoral degree may reduce the years required.

- Experience in the pharmaceutical or another highly regulated industry, and the China technology, data, privacy or vendor environment, is preferred.

**Measures of Success:**

- Timely, high-quality delivery of assigned data engineering and data product tasks.

- Reliable, well-tested and well-documented pipelines and data products.

- Effective POD contribution with dependable transition to production.

- Reusable knowledge assets that improve quality, reuse and team efficiency.

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## Skills

### Required
- data engineering
- SQL
- Python
- data modeling
- reporting
- business intelligence
- semantic models
- metadata
- data products
- data quality
- lineage
- data access

### Nice to have
- pharmaceutical
- regulated industry
- China technology
- data privacy
- vendor environment

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