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

Pfizer’s Global Information Security (GIS) organization delivers proactive cyber defense for the global enterprise.  Our mission is to secure all of Pfizer’s digital information assets ranging from our scientific breakthroughs to the manufacturing floor, and out to the patients we serve.  We achieve this mission through a combination of world-class talent, top-tier technologies, industry leading best practices, and the promotion of a cybersecurity ownership culture across the company.   

Strong identity and access controls are vital to the security and operational resilience of Pfizer. The Director, Privileged Access Services is accountable for the strategy, roadmap, technology, and operations of all privileged access technologies across Pfizer Digital. The leader will be responsible for driving innovation that reduces the risk to Pfizer by securing privileged accounts across numerous enterprise environments while also improving the user experience. 

The primary responsibility is to strategize and leverage modern privileged access technologies to solve business requirements while future-proofing Pfizer’s management of privileged accounts including end user accounts, machine to machine privileged access, API secrets and cloud controls while providing a customer-focused platform to easily use and leverage Pfizer’s PAM services. 

This role reports to the Senior Director, Identity & Access Management (IAM) and requires a balance of strategic thinking, strong communication and leadership skills and broad technical expertise across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments to drive innovative PAM solutions and practices.

How You Will Achieve It

• Strategic Oversight and Implementation: Lead the development of the PAM strategy and corresponding roadmaps considering the corporate strategy, industry security trends, and regulatory requirements. Establish a strategy and multi-year plan incorporating all parts of PAM: scan/discovery, remediation, lifecycle management, password rotation, password vaulting, just in time administration. Architect, design, develop and troubleshoot PAM solutions with the ability to provide technical and architectural design documentation, recommendations, specifications, use cases, requirements, and test cases. Create solutions that drive full automation, self-service, and resiliency. Work to improve and track the maturity of the IAM PAM products and capabilities showing increased adoption and resiliency. Lead the design, integration, and operationalization of PAM solutions, ensuring seamless implementation across diverse business units and technologies. Act as the primary liaison between technical teams, business units, and strategic stakeholders to advance PAM services within the organization. 
• Automation: Develop and implement strategies for automating the provisioning, deprovisioning, and review processes for privileged accounts. Leverage business, security, and risk requirements to enhance process efficiency and drive continuous improvement initiatives, focusing on automation and streamlining across disparate systems. 
• Metrics and Reporting:  Establish