Pfizer

ROLE SUMMARY

The Platforms Architect & Product Line Lead will own the vision, strategy, architecture, development, lifecycle management, delivery, and operations for EP&S shared platforms & products. This leader will play a significant role in shaping how EP&S consumes and utilizes these centralized technologies and ensures EP&S teams are not developing redundant capabilities.

The Platforms Architect & Product Line Lead will be accountable for the delivery of common building blocks and platforms that can be leveraged across the EP&S organization and beyond to simplify and speed up delivery. Set standards and policy on available supported platforms, stand-up a Code Catalog and API gateway, and deliver common building blocks such as audit & logging, authorizations, and secrets management for consumption by EP&S and Digital Creation Centers.

This role will lead a team of Product Managers and Practice Leads with deep delivery, technical, and EP&S domain expertise including data engineers, software engineers, and software developers. The Lead will support the Product Managers and Practice leads in the definition of measurable objectives and key results (OKRs) that ensure the delivery of consumable products for our customers and that achieve desired performance, durability, cost, and useability outcomes.

The ideal candidate will bring cross-functional influence, confidence in evangelizing development methodologies/standards and have a track record of delivering capabilities that are targeted at accelerating speed to market for Digital products and business applications across all domains.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Vision & Strategy:

• Define and own vision, strategy, and roadmap for EP&S platforms and shared developer products to improve and transform engagements, operations, and experiences across all EP&S functions and self-service capabilities to our customers.
• Understand industry and innovative technology trends to effectively prioritize and apply existing and emerging technologies to enable EP&S products and services supporting broader business processes.
• Act as a visionary to facilitate strategic solutions and pursue novel technologies to meet business needs.
• Partner across EP&S and Digital Architecture, to deploy and scale technologies supporting development operations, plug & play capabilities to EP&S solutions.

Solutions Delivery:

• Develop EP&S platforms & products service catalog and create centralized repository for EPS& assets to be easily discoverable by key stakeholders and collaborators.
• Develop and manage EP&S platforms strategy focused on business outcomes and ensure metrics are captured to enable ongoing measurement.
• Operate and continuously improve on EP&S platforms and products. Examples of current portfolio: Autoflow, Ansible, terraform, authorization engine, API gateway, Backstage, and many custom inhouse developed products supporting end user facing services such as access review, request manager, and cloud consumption chargeback and reporting.
• Own the budget, understand the cost, and manage the P&L of each platform and product. 
• Responsible for building EP&S’s internal brand and presence and consistently showcasing and communicating accomplishments to stakeholders.
• Create compelling and easy to digest content that simply communicates complex technical concepts to a broad range of stakeholders.

Solution Development:

• Lead teams responsible for the design, development, implementation and management of EP&S platforms and products.
• Collaborate with EP&S LT, Digital Architecture, Digital Creation Centers, and Client Partners and others to accelerate delivery and drive reuse of technologies and solutions.
• Partner with Global Information Security on Future of Development to ensure EP&S Platform & Products leverage all security controls and capabilities

Culture, Talent and Leadership:

• Cultivate and champion learning and innovation.
• Lead EP&S Practices with direct and matrix’d team members across software development and automations.
• Mentor, coach, guide, and grow leaders and team members creating strong collaborative and engaging culture.
• Value diversity and ensure all appropriate team member and or stakeholder views have been raised and incorporated into decisions as appropriate.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS 

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical/engineering discipline.
• 15+ years of relevant experience
• 8+ years of experience in a leadership capacity with increasing scopes of responsibility
• Technical knowledge of Cloud Services and Platform strategies
• Experience guiding large scale enterprise projects with senior level stakeholders in cross-functional environments.

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.

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

10% travel may be required

Last Date to Apply for Job: 5/10/2024

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $191,300.00 to $318,800.00.* In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 22.5% 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.

• The annual base salary for this position in Tampa, FL ranges from $172,100.00 to $286,900.00.

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

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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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