Senior Director, Engineering
Pfizer
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • California, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $219,800 - $366,400 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud Platform
About the role
- Lead a global team of Forward Deployed Engineers, Full-Stack Developers, Data Engineers, and AI Engineers
- Ensure rapid prototyping and enterprise delivery move in sync — balancing innovation velocity with integration, governance, and operational excellence
- Partner closely with R&D leaders, as well as Enterprise Architecture, Creation Centers, Platform Engineering, and Data Management teams
- Accelerate experimentation without creating fragmentation, ensuring the Forward Deployed Engineering model works with existing R&D and Digital & Technology teams
- Deliver business value and advance science
Requirements
- 12+ years leading large, distributed software, data, or AI engineering teams; experience in a matrixed, global environment required
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Bioinformatics, Engineering, or related discipline)
- Proven ability to align innovation teams with enterprise architecture, platform, and application groups to deliver cohesive solutions
- Strong grounding in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), data pipelines, AI/ML architectures, and modern application frameworks
- Understanding of machine learning, large language models, NLP, and generative AI, with ability to translate these technologies into practical R&D use cases
- Appreciation for the responsibilities of production systems—security, scalability, maintainability—and experience guiding prototypes into sustainable enterprise solutions
- Exceptional ability to convey technical vision to R&D and business executives; skilled at aligning stakeholders with differing incentives
- Demonstrated success building high-performing, inclusive teams and developing next-generation engineering leaders
- Track record of delivering measurable business outcomes—cycle-time reduction, insight acceleration, or cost optimization—through digital solutions.
- (Preferred): Experience within pharma, biotech, or life sciences R&D, with familiarity in regulated environments (GxP, clinical, regulatory)
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions
- Additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution
- Paid vacation
- Paid holiday and personal days
- Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
- Health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage
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Hard skills
cloud platformsdata pipelinesAI architecturesML architecturesapplication frameworksmachine learninglarge language modelsNLPgenerative AIenterprise solutions
Soft skills
leadershipstakeholder alignmentcommunicationteam buildinginnovation alignmenttechnical vision conveyanceinclusivityoperational excellencecollaborationproblem-solving