Senior Cloud Engineering Lead

At the heart of Pfizer's Digital transformation sits Global Cloud Services, enabling modern cloud infrastructure and engineering capabilities that influence business outcomes and provide value to our business, shareholders, and patients every day. We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineering Lead to join our growing team at Pfizer's Digital hub in New York, NY, United States. This role requires a strategic technical leader with deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), a strong emphasis on security, automation, and infrastructure as code.

The ideal candidate will bring a hands‑on approach using modern engineering practices and a proven track record in leading and mentoring technical teams. Pfizer seeks individuals that are highly self‑motivated, eager to learn, and effective when working in a team environment. A strong aptitude towards self‑development, continuous learning, and growth is highly desired.

• The Senior Cloud Engineering Lead provides technical leadership and design expertise, playing a key role in ensuring Pfizer Digital continues to leverage cloud‑native design patterns and modern engineering practices.
• This role will help ensure our Cloud Engineering team delivers a secure, compliant, productive, and innovative GCP hosting environment on a global scale.
• Lead a small technical team of 3–5 cloud engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, and support in their professional development while driving the adoption of modern cloud engineering practices across the organization.
• Lead the design, implementation, and management of GCP solutions focusing on security, scalability, and automation.
• Drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform, Open Tofu, Spacelift, and Python/Pulumi to ensure efficient and repeatable deployment of cloud resources.
• Manage and mentor a team of 3–5 cloud engineers, providing technical leadership, coaching, and support in their professional development.
• Create modern GCP cloud design patterns and help drive consumption of reusable patterns through partnership with development teams.
• Collaborate with global cloud engineers, developers, and product teams to build GCP cloud‑native capabilities for Pfizer Digital.
• Design and architect standards for the deployment and management of GCP infrastructure.
• Serve as escalation point for operational issues, supporting the on‑call engineering team when needed (minimal operational responsibilities,