Director, Product Engineering

ROLE SUMMARY
Digital is helping Pfizer Global Supply win the digital race in pharma and create breakthroughs that change patients' lives. Digital provides innovative digital solutions that unleash the power of our people by allowing them to focus their time and attention on value-add tasks. Our solutions accelerate key PGS initiatives and help PGS sites realize benefits of continuous improvement more rapidly.
The Digital Manufacturing organization enables a world-class manufacturing and supply chain organization by increasing visibility and efficiency across diverse systems and processes and delivering predictive analytics and insights. The team supports Pfizer's Core Manufacturing & Engineering Solutions, while enabling a secure, seamless flow of contextualized data from the device & control levels, all the way to the top of the Enterprise. Our goal is to create persona driven, connected experiences across our shop floors to predict and optimize operations, while providing intelligence, and real-time insights to operators. Key functional areas:

• Strategy & Operation Excellence
• Global Supply Engineering & Sustainment
• Manufacturing Operations Solutions
• E2E Network Solutions

The Global Supply Engineering & Sustainment team leads the technical support for manufacturing applications and core platforms, overseeing technology and vendor partnerships, and ensuring strong architecture governance. Our mission is to ensure that the platforms, systems and digital capabilities that power our global supply chain are reliable, scalable and future-ready.
The Director, Product Engineering will lead a global team of highly skilled software engineers responsible for designing, developing and sustaining enterprise-grade digital manufacturing applications and solutions. This leader will ensure engineering excellence across multiple complex and competing priorities balancing rapid delivery with stability, scalability and maintainability.
This role requires a seasoned technical leader who can drive architectural vision, establish best practices and standards, mentor emerging engineering talent, and guide the adoption of modern technologies including AI and emerging Agentic AI paradigms. The ideal candidate combines deep software engineering expertise with strong leadership, prioritization, and a passion for enabling innovation within a complex, global organization.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
The Director, Product Engineering colleague's responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Product Delivery & Execution Excellence
  
  • Oversee multiple concurrent development initatives supporting the Digital Manufacturing portfolio
  • Drive end-to-end solution delivery, architecture, design, development testing, deployment and sustainment
  • Manage competing priorities and resource allocations across projects, balancing delivery speed with quality and compliance
  • Partner with product managers, solution architects, and business stakeholders to align engineering coutcomes with product roadmaps

• Technical Architecture & Best Practices
  
  • Define and uphold modern engineering standards such as CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, automated testing, observability and secure-by-design principles
  • Ensure system architectures are scalable, reliable, and maintanable across global deployments
  • Manage technical debt and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance performance and efficiency
  • Drive alignment with enterprise architecture, data, and cybersecurity standards
• AI Enablement & Technology Integration
  
  • Partner with AI COE, Manufacturing Intelligence, Data Engineering and Platform Engineering teams to enable AI-powered features and intelligent automation
  • Maintain a high-level understanding of the tools, frameworks, and infrastructure supporting AI and agentic systems (e.g. LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, orchestration frameworks like LangChain or Semantic Kernel)
  • Advocate for AI readiness within existing applications and influence the technical direction of future applications
• Engineering Leadership & Team Development
  
  • Lead and inspire a global team of software enterprise-grade digital manufacturing applications
  • Serve as a hands-on technical mentor guiding junior engineers, facilitating skill growth and fostering a culture of excellence
  • Build an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance engineering culture centered on ownership, continuous improvement, learning and accountability
  • Establish clear career paths and succession planning within the team
• Governance, Compliance & Performance Management
  
  • Ensure all solutions adhere to Pfizer's digital standards, including cybersecurity, GxP, and data integrity requirements
  • Establish and track engineering KPIs - delivery, velocity, system uptime, incident response times, and technical debt reduction
  • Drive transparency through dashboards and regular operational reviews

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or relevant experience
• Minimum 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including full-stack or backend development in enterprise environments
• Demonstrated experience leading high-performing engineering teams delivering complex, mission-critical applications
• Strong technical depth in modern software architectures, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native design patterns
• Proven success managing competing priorities, allocating resources effectively, and communicating tradeoffs with senior stakeholders
• Experience mentoring engineers and establishing professional growth and development paths within engineering teams
• Working knowledge of AI technologies and architectures including experience with LLMs, RAG vector databases, orchestration frameworks (e.g. LangChain, Semantic Kernel), or intelligent agent systems
• Strong communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and business audiences
• Demonstrated success operating in global, matrixed organizations

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree in computer science, Engineering Management or related field
• Experience with regulated or GxP environments such as pharma and medical devices
• Experience in a manufacturing environment
• Familiarity with MLOps and AI infrastructure (e.g. Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI API, Amazon Bedrock and Sagemaker AI, Databricks or similar ecosystems)
• Strong background in agile development, preferabily SaFE, and DevOps culture

Please apply by sending your CV in English.
Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
Purpose
Breakthroughs that change patients' lives... At Pfizer we are a patient centric company, guided by our four values: courage, joy, equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives.
Digital Transformation Strategy
One bold way we are achieving our purpose is through our company wide digital transformation strategy. We are leading the way in adopting new data, modelling and automated solutions to further digitize and accelerate drug discovery and development with the aim of enhancing health outcomes and the patient experience.
Flexibility
We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Let's start the conversation!
Equal Employment Opportunity
We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer, Pfizer is committed to celebrating this, in all its forms - allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees.
Disability Inclusion
Our mission is unleashing the power of all our people and we are proud to be a disability inclusive employer, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all candidates. We encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments to support your application and future career. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!
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