Director, Enterprise Architect - PGS

ROLE SUMMARY

The Director, Enterprise Architect is responsible for directly overseeing and organizing Pfizer initiatives for the PGS domain. 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 Sr. Director Enterprise Architecture Role which is responsible for the PGS domain.

This role is accountable to 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.

• Collaborate with enterprise architect peers to identify reusable reference patterns to accelerate delivery and reduce technical debt

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:

• Develops a deep understanding of the PGS business process and identifies opportunities to streamline and increase productivity using digital tools.

• 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.

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.

• 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 and ability to influence without authority

• Demonstrated experience in consolidating applications to use common reusable architecture patterns to enforce enterprise standards

• Experience with both traditional AI/ML designs and guiding generative AI designs

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

• Experience with both traditional AI/ML designs and guiding generative AI designs

• Demonstrated experience with LIMS, ELN and supply chain solutions.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of business domain expertise in Clinical supply chain, research domain delivery in Life sciences or related industry

• Direct experience with Vaccines R&D processes, pre-clinical discovery workflows, and clinical trials

• Experience delivering lab systems (LIMS/ELN) and /or robots for lab process automation.

• Familiar with supply chains for Clinical Trials

• Familiar with AWS, Azure, Databricks, and Snowflakes from a capability level

• Experience with multiple software delivery models

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

• Analytical skills - complex data analysis

• Strong conceptual thinker

• Strong presentation and communication skills

• Making and facilitating decisions

• Adjusting to change

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

Pfizer Digital is a 7x24x365 global endeavor.  This role may require physical or virtual participation on a weekend, holiday, or after normal business hours