Director, Principal Enterprise Architect

ROLE SUMMARY

The Director, Enterprise Architect is responsible for directly overseeing and organizing Pfizer initiatives through a business aligned vertical or functionally aligned horizontal. As an individual contributor, your primary impact is through your direct work. You are a widely recognized expert in your technical domain able to articulate clearly to a deep technical level and you are comfortable understanding the business direction with input from business leadership.

This role reports to the [VP/Sr. Director Enterprise Architecture Role] which is responsible for the [Group Role Here].

Key accountabilities:

• Deliver Enterprise Architecture Outcomes including creation of detailed Solution Sketches, City Plans, and Solution Architecture Diagrams as necessary.

• Works on a variety of strategic initiatives within area of remit, leading complex projects within a business unit – providing technical and strategic context.

• Advise Senior leadership on both technical constraints and the business constraints – telling the common narrative of how those things interact with one another.

• Be the trusted voice for the enterprise as it relates to technical architecture.

• Contribute to business fit and focus of key initiatives.

• Mentor more junior colleagues and provide them with guidance and growth opportunities.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Service Delivery: 

• Dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

• Directs and proposes Enterprise Architecture fit for new and existing technical components.

• Understands customers’ operational needs and helps to drive strategic direction.

• Anticipates internal/external business and regulatory/compliance issues that impact the system design.

Strategy & Planning:

• Uses innovative business thinking to challenge the status quo and drive identification, quantification and proposal of business solutions.

• Leads proactive initiatives to drive Enterprise Architecture Strategy directly or at the direction of EA Leadership

Architecture:

• Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the targeted business outcomes.

• Accountable for the formulation of solution implementation approach, building consensus on approach, and providing technical execution oversight of such solutions.

• Influences management/senior staff decisions via focused innovation engineering exercises and proof-based experimentation.

• Knowledgeable about the regulatory constraints of leveraging cloud solutions in the healthcare industry with input from others.

• Understands modern cloud architecture best practices and is well-versed in Amazon Web Services-based architecture.

Communication:

• Is recognized as an Expert in their given domain area within an organizational unit.

• Develops and sustains constructive partnerships between business and technical stakeholders to ensure success of projects.

• Can write clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles, at all levels of the organization; can get messages across that have the desired effect.

• Ensures effective, accurate and timely communication across the portfolio; prepares and delivers regular updates on project status, both in written and presentation format, to sponsors, business leaders and stakeholder groups.

Innovation and Risk Taking

• Creates an environment where innovation is standard taking appropriate risks to advance innovative processes.

Financial Management:

• Effectively manages project budget resources in alignment with product / program needs.

Matrixed Team Effectiveness:

• Is highly skilled in a variety of formal presentation settings; one-on-one, small and large groups, with peers, and senior management; is effective both inside and outside the organization; commands attention and can manage group process during the presentation; can change tactics midstream when something isn't working.

• Utilizes negotiation, facilitation, meeting management and conflict resolution skills to enhance cross-functional team performance.

• Arbitrates disagreements among solution stakeholders and makes business decisions/proposals where needed.

• Understands and communicates team roles/responsibilities and ensures all team members have access to project information necessary to be successful.

• Solicits and evaluates vendor proposals with to augment internal expertise in service delivery.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree from accredited institution

• 10+ years of relevant experience.

• Demonstrated experience with cloud solutions (i.e.: Amazon, Google, Microsoft Azure)

• Strong interpersonal skills.

• Strong diplomacy skills; able to navigate a difficult political environment.

• Demonstrated ability to translate marketing material into actionable and understandable truth.

• An “execution mindset” focused on getting things done quickly and simply.

• Demonstrated experience with one or more Pfizer core platforms (Adobe AEM, Salesforce)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of business domain expertise in one more research and /or product development areas in Life sciences or related industry

• AWS /Azure cloud architect certification

• Experience with multiple software delivery models

Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.