Director, Analytics and Data Platform Delivery

Why Patients Need You

Technology impacts everything we do. Pfizer’s digital and ‘data first’ strategy focuses on implementing impactful and innovative technology solutions across all functions from research to manufacturing. Whether you are digitizing drug discovery and development, identifying solutions, or making our work easier and faster, you will be making a difference to countless lives.

What You Will Achieve

The Artificial Intelligence Data and Analytics (AIDA) Platform Delivery and Operations team provides a comprehensive suite of integrated technologies that are core components of Pfizer’s data and analytics ecosystem. The Director, Analytics Platform Delivery is accountable for all aspects of product management, engineering, and delivery for a subset of the technologies that are managed by the Platform Delivery and Operations team. This crucial role leads high performing teams delivering and managing analytic/data platforms that are necessary to achieve the roadmap, vision and strategy for Pfizer’s Analytics and Data ecosystem.  They work alongside other platform, project, data, product, and support teams, ensuring that the platform capabilities are aligned to global and BU level.

Role Responsibilities

• Responsible for the design, engineering, security, compliance, release management, financial management, product roadmap, and service / operational oversight of key Pfizer data / analytics technologies.

• People management of a team of engineers who operate in a matrixed model across the Analytics and Data technology ecosystem.

• Relationship management and oversight of external partners / technology suppliers (including software license and cloud hosting agreements).

• Practice lead / thought leader for one or more data and analytics practice areas.  Practice areas include data engineering, machine learning, data quality, data governance, and data visualization, graph database, etc.

• Partnering with senior leaders to understand and influence business objectives that may leverage Pfizer’s expanding data and analytics ecosystem.

This means:

• A detailed understanding of the analytics and data landscape, both inside and outside of Pfizer. 

• The candidate will have demonstrable subject matter expertise in multiple of our foundational technologies/areas such as cloud infrastructure / architecture, database design and data modelling, artificial intelligence / machine learning, and business intelligence and reporting. 

• Be a champion of innovation within the immediate and wider team, developing resources and processes to adopt innovative thinking and approach to problems. Take appropriate risks to move quickly, make mistakes and pivot when needed in the pursuit of the desired results. Guide reports on acceptable levels of risk-taking under the same model.

• Establish close partnerships with AIDA colleagues to ensure alignment in all areas of development strategy, process, operational needs, DevOps culture and other areas relevant to excellence in the asset lifecycle of assets in the portfolio. Ensure strong alignment of vision and strategies in how A&D delivers and runs its technologies.

• Embrace a DevSecOps mentality and ensure the model’s success, building a culture of shared responsibility and transparency leading to higher quality and far quicker delivery of output.

• Take part in the culture of measurement, learning and feedback.

• Leverage industry best practice and experience to ensure that security is baked into deliverables from the start, and that the platform/project/program fully embraces a DevSecOps and mentality.

• Develop plans for managing talent inside and outside of the immediate span of control and ensure that leadership bench strength is taken into consideration. Ensure the talent base has the skills required to complete tasks of today and be prepared for the changing and more complex business needs of tomorrow.

• Providing technical oversight and mentorship for geographically dispersed colleagues and contracted team members.

• Technical coordination and collaboration with Pfizer Digital service providers both within and outside the AIDA team: Digital Client Partners, Digital Architecture, Digital Creation Centers, and Enterprise Platform and Security teams.   

• Fostering an engineering culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement.