Director, Azure Cloud Engineering and Hosting Lead

Role Summary
At the heart of Pfizer's Digital hosting and application development strategy sits the Cloud and Network Security Services (CNSS) organization. Enabling all manner of digital infrastructure and cloud development capabilities, these services and products permeate across Pfizer influencing business outcomes and providing value to our business, shareholders, and patients every day.
The Azure Cloud Engineering and Hosting Lead has ultimate accountability for the strategy, development, lifecycle management, delivery, cost and efficacy of the Pfizer Azure Cloud environment. The role will have direct ownership in establishing a secure, compliant, productive, and innovative cloud hosting environment. This role will have accountability over how Pfizer Digital consumes and utilizes Azure hosting technologies in support of all business lines, on a global scale. Pfizer is currently on a journey to deepen and extend our use of the Microsoft Azure cloud. The Azure Cloud Engineering and Hosting Lead will manage a team of cloud engineers, developers, and product specialist with the goal of building native cloud capabilities for all of Pfizer to consume.
The ideal candidate will challenge traditional norms within the Pfizer infrastructure environment and bias towards simplicity, delivery excellence, and speed to value. This position will influence all levels of management while leading a team accountable for Azure cloud outcomes. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working across senior leadership boundaries while effectively cultivating talent of all experience levels.
Role Responsibilities

• Lead a cross functional, global engineering and service development team while creating enduring internal engineering and development standards.
• Bring expert level knowledge and experience in leading program level technology implementation within a cloud hosting environment.
• Set and manage the overall strategy for Pfizer's development of the Microsoft Azure cloud while being accountable for customer hosting outcomes.
• Prioritize strategic and sustaining engineering work across a multi-disciplined engineering team while driving a culture of automation and toil reduction.
• Develop, measure, and track key performance indicators across the Azure Cloud team.
• Effectively manage the Azure specific P&L budget including strategies to drive efficiencies across the cloud portfolio while ensuring customers are billed for all cloud consumption.
• Align with strategic Cloud Transformational goals by partnering directly with peer service and product owners.
• Set the strategic vision for Azure cloud services based on an understanding of customer goals, group priorities, the portfolio of products and services offered, and their evolving underlying technologies.
• Ensuring that Pfizer stays abreast of the latest trends in cloud product technologies and market shifts. Continuously evaluate new capabilities and provide guidance on where investments should be made.
• Manage external partnerships with key service providers and strategic partners to ensure consistent delivery of services in alignment with Pfizer's Azure cloud strategy and in accordance with established commercial agreements.
• Address any systemic issues in product durability and partner with operational teams to ensure effective & efficient ongoing supportability.
• Promote ideas and innovations by taking measured risks and articulating the vision and plan to achieve desired outcomes such as improving performance, efficacy, cost efficiency, and ease-of-use.

Qualifications
Must-Have

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in an enterprise IT setting, preferably in a highly regulated industry such as banking/financials or healthcare/pharmaceuticals.
• Expert-level knowledge of and experience with Cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Excellent communicator, with an ability to influence horizontally and vertically across a large, complex, and matrixed organization. Adept at managing through competing priorities to identify those outcomes with the greatest value for Pfizer.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing a department-level P&L inclusive of forecasting/budgeting, identifying and prosecuting cost efficiency opportunities, and managing spend through the fiscal period.
• Strong general IT knowledge with a background working directly with customers to drive Digital outcomes at a departmental or division level.
• Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.

Nice-to-Have

• SME level experience in designing and implementing foundational Microsoft Azure capabilities while driving infrastructure as code standards.
• Demonstrated experience in leading high-performance engineering and developments teams.

Physical/Mental Requirements

• Position requires the use of a computer device for long periods.

Non-Standard Work Schedule, Travel, or Environment Requirements

• Last day to apply: March 14, 2025
• Travel: 5% or less per year
• Off hours work may be required to support deployments or troubleshooting events
• Work Location Assignment: Hybrid. Must be able to work in Pfizer office an average of 2.5 days per week or as needed by the business

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $169,700.00 to $282,900.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer's Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 20.0% 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.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
Sunshine Act
Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider's name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.
EEO & Employment Eligibility
Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.
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