Senior Director, Principal Technical Architect
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About the role
We are seeking a Senior Director, Principal Technical Architect to serve as the technical leader accountable for the technical strategy and architecture of one of Pfizer’s key Digital Platforms. This leader will define and advance the Platform’s technical direction, ensuring it is modern, secure, scalable, reusable, and aligned to Pfizer’s enterprise architecture standards and business priorities. The role is accountable for translating enterprise and divisional needs into a clear technical strategy and target architecture for the Platform, and for guiding the engineering teams that build and operate it. This leader will work with senior business and Digital leaders, platform product owners, and enterprise architects to ensure the Platform delivers measurable value and integrates cleanly into Pfizer’s broader platform spine. This position requires a senior, hands-on technical leader who can operate at the intersection of platform strategy, modern engineering, AI-enabled delivery, and architectural governance. The Senior Director will create clarity from complexity, make sound architecture and investment trade-offs, develop technical talent, and set the technical standards that help Pfizer deliver faster, safer, and more reusable digital capabilities at global scale.
What you'll bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, with 12+ years of significant senior engineering and technical leadership experience in enterprise platforms, cloud, or large-scale technology delivery.
- Demonstrated experience owning the technical strategy and architecture of a significant platform, product, or technology domain.
- Proven ability to lead and develop engineering teams, including engineers, architects, and technical leads.
- Deep, hands-on technical expertise in modern engineering practices, cloud platforms, data and integration patterns, APIs, security, and reliability.
- Experience partnering with senior business and Digital stakeholders to shape technical direction, investment choices, and measurable outcomes.
- Advanced degree in a technology, engineering, or related discipline preferred.
- Experience operating in a highly regulated, global enterprise environment with complex compliance, privacy, security, and risk expectations.
- Experience applying AI-enabled delivery, automation, and platform reuse to improve speed and quality.
- Track record of influencing senior leaders, building trusted partnerships, and creating clarity in ambiguous, high-impact situations.
- Recognized technical depth in the Platform’s core technology domain (e.g., agent platforms, data fabric, developer experience, colleague-facing AI, or cyber defense, as applicable).
- Technical Strategy and Judgment: Connects business needs, enterprise architecture, and platform strategy into a practical technical direction that guides design and investment.
- Influence and Partnership: Communicates clearly with senior business and Digital leaders, frames trade-offs, builds alignment, and drives decisions without relying solely on formal authority.