Sr. Dir., Strategic Technology Initiatives Lead

Pfizer • New York City, NY

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, with 12+ years of significant leadership experience in technology strategy, architecture, or large-scale program delivery.
• Demonstrated experience leading the technology strategy and delivery of multiple concurrent programs or initiatives, and connecting them into a coherent whole.
• Proven ability to lead and develop senior technical talent, including architects, principal engineers, and other senior specialists.
• Experience advising senior leaders on technology direction, priorities, trade-offs, and measurable business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of modern engineering practices, cloud platforms, data and integration patterns, AI-enabled delivery, security, reliability, and technology governance.
• Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.
• U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.
• This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in technology, engineering, business, or a related discipline preferred.
• Experience operating in a highly regulated, global enterprise environment with complex compliance, privacy, security, and risk expectations.
• Experience connecting multiple programs, platform portfolios, and AI-enabled initiatives into a coherent enterprise strategy.
• Track record of influencing C-suite or enterprise leadership teams, building trusted partnerships, and creating clarity in ambiguous, high-impact situations.
• Demonstrated strength in leading large, cross-functional teams with exceptional communication, organization, and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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
• health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage
• Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

What This Job Offers

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