Director, Cloud Engineering
Director, Cloud Engineering
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ROLE SUMMARY
At the heart of Pfizer's Digital transformation sits Global Cloud Services, delivering modern cloud platforms, engineering capabilities, and operational excellence that directly shape business outcomes across the enterprise.
We are seeking aDirector of Cloud Engineeringto lead ourmulticloudstrategy and engineering organization within Pfizer Digital. This roleoperateson a global scale, driving cloud modernization, platform reliability, and engineering innovation that supports Pfizer's mission of delivering breakthroughs that change patients' lives.
The Director of Cloud Engineering is astrategic technical leaderresponsible for shaping cloud architecture direction, evolving engineering practices, and ensuring our cloud platformsremainsecure, compliant, scalable, and efficient. The ideal candidate brings deepmulticloudexpertise, proven experience leadinghighperformingengineering teams, and the ability to influence across a large, complex, matrixed enterprise.
Pfizer seeks individuals who are transformational, curious, and committed to continuous growth - leaders who bring passion for technology, empowerment of teams, and operational excellence.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategic Leadership & Vision
Define, evolve, and communicate Pfizer's multi-cloud engineering strategy and roadmap.
Partner with security, engineering, and business leaders to align cloud capabilities with enterpriseobjectives.
Lead the adoption of modern cloud-native architectures and engineering patterns across Pfizer Digital.
Team & Organizational Leadership
Lead and develop multiple teams of cloud engineers, technical leads
Build a culture of innovation, learning, accountability, and engineering excellence.
Mentor senior engineers andemergingleaders, growing the next generation of technical talent.
Technical Ownership & Architecture
Oversee the design and governance of standards for multi-cloud infrastructure, including networking, security, identity, observability, and platform automation.
Drive consistent adoption of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Python) and platform automation viaSpaceliftor equivalent tooling.
Establish reusable cloud design patterns and reference architectures that accelerate product teams and reduce technical debt.
Operational Excellence & Security
Maintain a secure, compliant, and resilient hosting environment supporting business-critical systems.
Collaborate with SRE, security, and operations teams to enhance reliability, performance, and cloud posture.
Serve asseniorescalation point forhighimpactcloud incidents (minimalhandsonoperational work).
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
Stay ahead of emerging cloud technologies and industry trends to drive platform modernization.
Champion automation-first approaches, improving delivery speed, repeatability, and consistency.
Identifyand drive continuous improvement initiatives across engineering, architecture, and operations.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work with global engineering, application development, cybersecurity, and compliance teams to deliver seamlessendtoendcloud capabilities.
Support business units and product teams in adoptingbestpracticecloud architectures andcloudnativeservices.
Represent Cloud Services in architecture forums, governance councils, and strategic investment discussions.
BASICQUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or equivalent experience.
10-15+ years of experience in cloud or software engineering, platform architecture, or infrastructure leadership roles.
At least 5 years leading multiple engineering teams or large, complex technical organizations.
Deepexpertiseacross at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with strong multi-cloud familiarity.
Expert-level experience designing and deploying infrastructure usingIaCtools.
Strong programming and automation experience (Python preferred).
Proventrack recordinfluencing across large matrixed organizations.
Strong leadership capabilities, withexperiencecoaching and developing senior engineers.
Demonstrated ability to set priorities, define long-term strategy, and deliverhighvalueoutcomes.
Customercentricmindset with the ability to align cloud capabilities to business needs.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Multi-cloud architectural experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Experience defining enterprise cloud standards and governance frameworks.
ExpertisewithSpaceliftor similarIaCautomation platforms.
Contributions to open-source cloud or infrastructure tooling.
Advanced cloud certifications (AWSSAPro, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert).
Experience working in global organizations with distributed engineering teams.
Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
Purpose
Breakthroughs that change patients' lives... At Pfizer we are a patient centric company, guided by our four values: courage, joy, equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives.
Digital Transformation Strategy
One bold way we are achieving our purpose is through our company wide digital transformation strategy. We are leading the way in adopting new data, modelling and automated solutions to further digitize and accelerate drug discovery and development with the aim of enhancing health outcomes and the patient experience.
Flexibility
We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Let's start the conversation!
Equal Employment Opportunity
We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer, Pfizer is committed to celebrating this, in all its forms - allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees.
Disability Inclusion
Our mission is unleashing the power of all our people and we are proud to be a disability inclusive employer, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all candidates. We encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments to support your application and future career. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!
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