Director, Cloud Engineering

Chennai - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 11 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

ROLE SUMMARY

At the heart of Pfizers Digital transformation sits Global Cloud Services delivering modern cloud platforms engineering capabilities and operational excellence that directly shape business outcomes across the enterprise.

We are seeking aDirector of Cloud Engineeringto lead ourmulticloudstrategy and engineering organization within Pfizer Digital. This roleoperateson a global scale driving cloud modernization platform reliability and engineering innovation that supports Pfizers mission of delivering breakthroughs that change patients lives.

The Director of Cloud Engineering is astrategic technical leaderresponsible for shaping cloud architecture direction evolving engineering practices and ensuring our cloud platformsremainsecure compliant scalable and efficient. The ideal candidate brings deepmulticloudexpertise proven experience leadinghigh performingengineering teams and the ability to influence across a large complex matrixed enterprise.

It is a senior leadership role within Global Cloud Services responsible for engineering strategy delivery and talent development for cloud engineering capabilities delivered from Chennai.

Pfizer seeks individuals who are transformational curious and committed to continuous growth leaders who bring passion for technology empowerment of teams and operational excellence.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

- Lead and scale cloud engineering teams in Chennai

- Own engineering outcomes and platform delivery

- Partner with global Cloud Engineering leadership

- Ensure adoption of standardized architectures and IaC practices

- Develop engineering leaders and talent pipeline

Strategic Leadership & Vision

Define evolve and communicate Pfizers multi-cloud engineering strategy and roadmap.

Partner with security engineering and business leaders to align cloud capabilities with enterpriseobjectives.

Lead the adoption of modern cloud-native architectures and engineering patterns across Pfizer Digital.

Team & Organizational Leadership

Lead and develop multiple teams of cloud engineers technical leads

Build a culture of innovation learning accountability and engineering excellence.

Mentor senior engineers andemergingleaders growing the next generation of technical talent.

Technical Ownership & Architecture

Oversee the design and governance of standards for multi-cloud infrastructure including networking security identity observability and platform automation.

Drive consistent adoption of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Python) and platform automation viaSpaceliftor equivalent tooling.

Establish reusable cloud design patterns and reference architectures that accelerate product teams and reduce technical debt.

Operational Excellence & Security

Maintain a secure compliant and resilient hosting environment supporting business-critical systems.

Collaborate with SRE security and operations teams to enhance reliability performance and cloud posture.

Serve asseniorescalation point forhighimpactcloud incidents (minimalhandsonoperational work).

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

Stay ahead of emerging cloud technologies and industry trends to drive platform modernization.

Champion automation-first approaches improving delivery speed repeatability and consistency.

Identifyand drive continuous improvement initiatives across engineering architecture and operations.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Work with global engineering application development cybersecurity and compliance teams to deliver seamlessendtoendcloud capabilities.

Support business units and product teams in adoptingbestpracticecloud architectures andcloudnativeservices.

Represent Cloud Services in architecture forums governance councils and strategic investment discussions.

BASICQUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering IT or equivalent experience.

1015 years of experience in cloud or software engineering platform architecture or infrastructure leadership roles.

At least 5 years leading multiple engineering teams or large complex technical organizations.

Deepexpertiseacross at least one major cloud provider (AWS GCP or Azure) with strong multi-cloud familiarity.

Expert-level experience designing and deploying infrastructure usingIaCtools.

Strong programming and automation experience (Python preferred).

Proventrack recordinfluencing across large matrixed organizations.

Strong leadership capabilities withexperiencecoaching and developing senior engineers.

Demonstrated ability to set priorities define long-term strategy and deliverhighvalueoutcomes.

Customercentricmindset with the ability to align cloud capabilities to business needs.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience leading global delivery hubs
Cloud security and governance expertise
Multi-cloud architectural experience across AWS Azure and GCP.

Experience defining enterprise cloud standards and governance frameworks.

ExpertisewithSpaceliftor similarIaCautomation platforms.

Contributions to open-source cloud or infrastructure tooling.

Advanced cloud certifications (AWSSAPro GCP Professional Cloud Architect Azure Solutions Architect Expert).

Experience working in global organizations with distributed engineering teams.

Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.

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ROLE SUMMARYAt the heart of Pfizers Digital transformation sits Global Cloud Services delivering modern cloud platforms engineering capabilities and operational excellence that directly shape business outcomes across the enterprise.We are seeking aDirector of Cloud Engineeringto lead ourmulticloudst...