Senior Director, Head of Application Engineering and Productionization

The AI Acceleration (AIA) function within the Chief Marketing Office (CMO) is the single business-led engine that owns the design delivery and scale-up of priority AI capabilities across Commercial. AIA works in tight collaboration with various Pfizer functions to deploy and maintain production-grade AI solutions that simplify how we work and drive measurable value across all processes.

Lead the application engineering and productionization function to design build and scale enterprise applications and AI/ML solutions working closely with the Platform Ops team in Digital to deliver effective deployments.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy & architecture

• Define the overall strategy and governance model for application engineering and productionization establishing frameworks patterns and standards for how AI and digital products are built deployed and maintained
• Align on architectural decisions on front-end full-stack cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP) and CI/CD pipelines to ensure scalability performance and security
• Partner with the Heads of Agent Product Management Full Stack Development Data Engineering and Data Strategy to maintain consistent architecture shared infrastructure and unified engineering standards across AIA

Build & ship (governance level)

• Oversee the design development and rollout of applications and tools used across AIA pods with a focus on reuse and maintainability
• Lead front-end and full-stack development teams in implementing secure scalable interfaces and integrations with enterprise systems and APIs
• Establish govern and align to CI/CD pipelines release management and environment configuration for applications and maintain alignment with security and quality standards
• Collaborate with agent and AI/ML engineering teams to move AI/ML models into production with strong deployment versioning and monitoring practices

Quality & reliability

• Define quality standards and performance metrics for applications covering uptime latency reliability and user experience
• Oversee the implementation of automated testing logging and observability platforms to ensure operational excellence
• Establish mechanisms for proactive issue detection incident response and continuous improvement of application stability and security

Team & culture

• Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization (30 FTEs) across front-end full-stack DevOps and architecture disciplines
• Set strong technical direction review design and code and mentor senior engineers and engineering managers to raise the organizational engineering bar
• Foster a culture of technical excellence accountability and continuous learning emphasizing reusable components automation and engineering rigor

Cross-functional impact

• Partner with Data Engineering Product Agent Product Management and Platform Ops teams to ensure seamless integration of applications with data pipelines APIs and orchestration frameworks
• Work with the Data Strategy & Performance team to align engineering practices with enterprise governance security and compliance requirements
• Maintain close feedback loops with users and stakeholders to shape application roadmaps based on adoption performance and business impact
• Communicate technical decisions trade-offs and implications clearly to senior leadership connecting architecture and engineering choices to business outcomes

Innovation & best practices

• Promote adoption of modern software development methodologies and tooling including agile delivery DevOps and continuous delivery frameworks
• Stay current on emerging trends in application engineering AI integration and cloud infrastructure applying these insights to strengthen engineering practices and drive innovation

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field required; Masters degree strongly preferred.
• 12 years of relevant professional experience.
• Proven peopleleadership experience with a track record of building and developing highperforming teams.
• Experience working within regulated industries (e.g. pharmaceuticals banking insurance).
• Demonstrated ability to navigate and influence within large complex organizations.
• Strong stakeholdermanagement capabilities with success driving alignment across diverse functions and seniority levels.
• Recognized industry thought leader with enterprisewide strategic impact.
• Demonstrated program and operations management expertise particularly within large regulated environments.
• Proven success managing quality standards leading efficient development teams and optimizing complex staffing and resource allocation models.
• Deep expertise in crossfunctional integration and operational effectiveness within a large corporate ecosystem.

Other Job Details:

• Last Date to Apply for Job: January 30th 2026
• Ability to travel based on business needs
• NOT eligible for Relocation Package
• This position is hybrid and requires working onsite 2 to 3 days per week

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