Senior Manager, Data Security & Access Lead

Pfizer • New York City, NY

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About The Position

Pfizer Global Supply is transforming how data powers its end-to-end supply network. The Senior Manager, Data Security Lead will lead the design and evolution of data security frameworks across PGS data platforms and products. The role establishes a consistent, scalable approach to protecting structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across enterprise data lakes, data warehouses, cloud platforms, and other authorized sources.

The position defines how access is designed, governed, approved, implemented, and monitored, including role-based and attribute-based access, row- and column-level security, masking, sensitive-data classification, entitlement models, policy-driven access, and governed self-service access. It defines architecture and integration patterns that separate business policy and entitlement management from the datasets and platforms where data resides, supporting consistent enforcement across Snowflake and other enterprise data sources.

This global role partners with PGS Governance, Enterprise Cybersecurity, Privacy, Digital platform teams, data owners, data stewards, and solution teams. The role provides security architecture leadership and translates enterprise security, privacy, data governance, records-management, and regulatory requirements into practical standards and reusable controls. Implementation and operations of Snowflake capabilities are performed in partnership with Digital and platform engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, data engineering, engineering, or a related field and at least 6 years of experience in enterprise data security, information security architecture, data architecture, data governance, cloud data platforms, or a related discipline; alternatively, a master’s degree with at least 5 years of experience, or a PhD with at least 1 year of experience.
• Demonstrated leadership of complex cross-functional initiatives and experience designing security approaches for enterprise data lakes, data warehouses, and modern cloud data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of role-based access control, attribute-based access control, entitlement design, least-privilege access, segregation of duties, row-level security, column-level security, dynamic data masking, data classification, and policy enforcement.
• Experience designing approaches that separate policy and entitlement administration from the physical location of underlying datasets.
• Experience with Snowflake or a comparable modern cloud data platform and ability to translate security, privacy, governance, and regulatory requirements into scalable architecture patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to influence business, governance, cybersecurity, architecture, privacy, and engineering stakeholders and communicate complex decisions clearly to senior leaders.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States by any employer; U.S. work visa sponsorship is not available now or in the future.
• Position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in a relevant discipline.
• Experience with Collibra Data Intelligence Platform, including classification, policies, workflows, stewardship, metadata, lineage, certification, and access governance.
• Experience integrating Collibra security or governance models with Snowflake or other enterprise data platforms.
• Experience with Snowflake role hierarchy, row access policies, masking policies, tags, secure views, object permissions, and secure data sharing.
• Experience designing security controls across heterogeneous data environments and within a federated data-delivery model.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing, supply chain, quality, GxP, privacy, records-management, or other regulated-data environments.
• Experience securing data science, machine learning, generative artificial intelligence, knowledge graph, semantic layer, vector retrieval, or agent-based solutions.
• Relevant certification in cloud security, information security, data management, privacy, or enterprise architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain PGS data security architecture, principles, standards, reference patterns, and target-state roadmaps across data lakes, data warehouses, cloud platforms, data products, semantic layers, knowledge platforms, and artificial intelligence environments.
• Define scalable role-based and attribute-based access control, least-privilege, segregation-of-duties, policy-based access, and entitlement models for Snowflake and heterogeneous enterprise data platforms.
• Establish design patterns and decision criteria for row-level and column-level security, static and dynamic masking, tokenization, de-identification, object permissions, tag-based controls, secure views, and governed data sharing.
• Design integration patterns that connect centralized policy, identity, catalog, and entitlement-management capabilities with underlying datasets and platforms while minimizing duplicated and platform-specific security roles.
• Lead the design of data classification, security metadata, policy domains, access-governance workflows, certification controls, approval processes, periodic reviews, recertification, exceptions, and revocation within Collibra.
• Provide security architecture leadership for Snowflake, including role hierarchies, row access policies, masking policies, tags, secure views, object permissions, and secure data sharing, in partnership with Digital and platform engineering teams.
• Embed security-by-design requirements into dataset onboarding, data-product delivery, analytics, data science, generative artificial intelligence, semantic models, vector stores, knowledge graphs, and agent-based capabilities.
• Translate enterprise security, privacy, data governance, records-management, and regulatory requirements into practical standards and reusable controls.
• Lead cross-functional design reviews, monitor conformance, support audit readiness, manage exceptions, and communicate risk and outcomes to senior stakeholders.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution.
• Paid vacation, holiday, and personal days.
• Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.
• Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
• Eligible to participate in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 17.5% of base salary.
• Eligible to participate in Pfizer’s share-based long-term incentive program.
• Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior