Sr. Dir., Strategic Technology Initiatives Lead

ROLE SUMMARY

We are seeking a Senior Director, Strategic Technology Initiatives Lead to lead and connect Pfizer’s most important strategic technology initiatives with our eight Digital Core Platforms. This leader will oversee a team of Senior Technical Architects and own the connected strategy that ensures high-priority, Executive Leadership Team (ELT)-level AI programs are designed, aligned, and delivered as a coherent whole across the platform landscape.

The role is accountable for connecting the technical strategy of individual initiatives into one coherent direction, ensuring each program reinforces the eight Digital Core Platforms rather than diverging from them. Working with senior business and Digital leaders, this leader sets priorities across initiatives, resolves cross-program trade‑offs, and ensures the right architects and technical talent are aligned to the most important outcomes.

This position requires a senior leader with strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills who can operate at the intersection of strategy, architecture, platform alignment, and organizational leadership. The Senior Director will create clarity from complexity, orchestrate work across many initiatives and teams, develop senior technical talent, and establish a practical, connected strategy that helps Pfizer deliver faster, safer, and more reusable digital capabilities at global scale.

• Connected Technology Strategy:
  Own the connected technology strategy across the strategic technology initiatives, ensuring each initiative aligns to and strengthens the eight Digital Core Platforms and Pfizer’s enterprise architecture standards.
• Platform Alignment and Reuse:
  Ensure the strategic initiatives make deliberate, reusable use of the eight Digital Core Platforms, driving consistency, reuse, and clean integration rather than duplicated or divergent solutions.
• ELT-Level Initiative Leadership:
  Lead the technical strategy and senior stakeholder alignment for key Executive Leadership Team (ELT)-level AI programs, translating ambiguous enterprise priorities into a coordinated set of initiatives with clear owners, delivery models, and measurable outcomes.
• Architect Team Leadership:
  Oversee, lead, and develop a team of Senior Technical Architects, setting direction, balancing workload across initiatives, and ensuring consistent architecture quality and standards across the portfolio.
• AI-Enabled Delivery:
  Define how AI, automation, and modern engineering practices are responsibly applied across the initiatives to increase speed, improve quality, strengthen decision‑making, and maintain appropriate governance and verification.
• Leadership, Communication, and Organization:
  Provide clear leadership and set direction with strong, structured communication; organize and coordinate work across many initiatives, architects, and stakeholders; and build a high‑performing, inclusive team culture of accountability and continuous learning.
• Governance and Delivery Assurance:
  Establish expectations for reliability, security, documentation, and operational excellence across the initiatives, and provide the governance and reporting that keep senior leaders informed and the portfolio on track.

• Don’t Lose Your Curiosity:
  Fosters a culture of curiosity and continuous learning across the initiatives and architect team; sponsors experimentation and cross‑initiative learning; brings emerging technologies and outside‑in perspectives into the connected strategy.
• Set an example for your team:
  Consistently demonstrate a clear vision, positive energy, and exemplary leadership that motivate the architect team and initiative stakeholders to strive for their highest potential.
• Own the Outcome:
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