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. 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.



brings emerging technologies and outside-in perspectives into the connected strategy drives quality and delivery commitments in the AI era frames trade-offs and priorities crisply; anticipates dependencies and risks; 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. Robust understanding of modern engineering practices, cloud platforms, data and integration patterns, AI-enabled delivery, security, reliability, and technology governance. 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. Track record of influencing C-suite or enterprise leadership teams, building trusted partnerships, and creating clarity in ambiguous, high-impact situations. Connects the strategy of individual initiatives, the eight Digital Core Platforms, and enterprise architecture into one practical, connected direction that guides investment and execution. frames trade-offs, builds alignment, and drives decisions.

Technical Depth and Breadth: Brings enough hands‑on technical and architectural credibility to guide senior architects, challenge assumptions, evaluate emerging technologies, and make sound enterprise‑scale choices.

Talent Leadership: Develops senior technical leaders and architects, builds succession plans, strengthens team capability, and creates an inclusive culture of accountability, curiosity, and continuous learning.

AI and Modern Delivery Mindset: Understands how AI, automation, modern engineering, product thinking, and platform reuse can improve speed, quality, and value while maintaining appropriate controls and verification. On site strongly preferred. Remote locations will only be considered for internal candidates who are already designated remote.

In addition,



this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer's Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 25.0% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program.

We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life's moments.

Benefits offered include a 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, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site - U.If you are applying for the role in an secondary job posting location where pay transparency regulations apply, your Talent Advisor will share the local pay information with you during the first interview. Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

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📌 Sr. Dir., Strategic Technology Initiatives Lead (London)
🏢 Pfizer
📍 London