A career at Pfizer offers opportunity, ownership and impact.

All over the world, Pfizer colleagues work together to positively impact health for everyone, everywhere. Our colleagues have the opportunity to grow and develop a career that offers both individual and company success; be part of an ownership culture that values diversity and where all colleagues are energized and engaged; and the ability to impact the health and lives of millions of people. Pfizer, a global leader in the biopharmaceutical industry, is continuously seeking top talent who are inspired by our purpose to innovate to bring therapies to patients that significantly improve their lives.

Right now, we are seeking highly qualified candidates to fill the following position in Berlin:

Computational Biologist (m/f/d)

About the role:

Pfizer's cross-functional 'omics ecosystem team is actively seeking a highly motivated, creative, and enthusiastic computational biology researcher with a strong background in data handling, integration and analysis, exceptional full-stack software engineering skills, and a sound understanding of drug discovery. The ideal candidate will have a relevant background in the field of bioinformatics research and will play a key role in our dynamic and pioneering cross-functional team dedicated to advancing the development of a cutting-edge ‘omics ecosystem platform for Pfizer R&D. In this role, the candidate will leverage their expertise to design innovative approaches that extract valuable insights from Pfizer's proprietary data and external datasets, enabling the generation of testable hypotheses across the entire drug discovery value chain.

Your responsibilities include:

• Development and implementation of a data platform for public and reference data

• Integration of literature and competitive intelligence data from public sources and vendors

• Implementation and setup of lean LLM-powered NLP solutions to mine literature data

• Prototyping visual analytics solutions for insight generation

• Together with our digital partner organization develop a lean ETL process to standardized data ingestions

• Development of a data dissemination concept for all ingested data in relevant data access patterns

• Strengthen external visibility and scientific excellence through publishing / presenting work in reputed journals and conference/workshop venues and engaging with the scientific community

About you:

• Formal training in Computational Biology, Computer Science, Biology, Physics, Statistics, related technical discipline.

• Master and ideally some years of relevant research experience in developing data products and data integration solutions aswell as a sincere interest for computational life sciences.

• Highly creative person with outstanding problem-solving skills to tackle complex analysis tasks in a timely fashion.

• Strong full-stack developer with focus on python, in-depth database expertise with a focus on postgres, ETL frameworks. Exceptional programming skills in Python are a prerequisite. Familiarity with pertinent libraries within the Python scientific stack would be highly advantageous.

• In-depth knowledge in typescript, reactjs and scientific visualization

• Proven expertise in developing visual analytics solutions/prototypes

Together we stand for:

Breakthroughs that change patients' lives – In order to fulfill our corporate purpose, a value-oriented corporate culture guides our actions. Pfizer's values ​​are: Courage, Excellence, Equity & Joy.

Courage: One bold way we are achieving our goals is our company-wide digital transformation strategy. Our flat hierarchies enable short decision-making paths.

Excellence: We focus on what is really important, take responsibility, measure progress and work together in a spirit of trust. Together we rely on an agile way of working that encourages our employees to balance their private and work lives and to promote personal development.

Equity: We believe that different experiences are valuable, which is why every opinion is heard and valued. These experiences and opinions enrich the entire company. In this way, we promote a diverse and inclusive working environment in which colleagues in various Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) working groups such as, e.g. Engage Empowered Women, LGBT*IQ , DisAbility, X-Gen.

Joy: If we experience our work as meaningful, we get a lot in return. We achieve this by being proud of the contribution we make, appreciating each other and sharing this with joy and recognition. Our BRAVO Award program gives us an appreciative opportunity to do so. Our employees benefit from a comprehensive company health management "Pfizer in Balance" also during working hours.

Living our values extends well-beyond the workplace, you get the opportunity to support people in need and to carry out our efforts around diversity, inclusion & equity, environmental sustainability and against any form of exclusion through volunteering e.g., during our annual engagement days.

For us, it goes without saying that we offer fair remuneration in accordance with the IG BCE framework collective agreement, as well as a pension scheme and many other attractive benefits.

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