Sr. Dir., Business Technology Strategy

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ROLE SUMMARY We are seeking a Senior Director, Business Technology Strategy to serve as the primary liaison between Pfizer’s business divisions and Digital, strategically aligning divisional technology needs to our eight Digital Core Platforms and digital standards. This leader will oversee a team of Director-level Technical Specialists and ensure that divisional programs and projects reinforce — rather than diverge from — the enterprise platform strategy. The role is accountable for connecting business-division priorities with Pfizer’s platform and architecture standards, ensuring divisional programs and projects reuse shared capabilities and adhere to digital standards. Working closely with senior business and Digital leaders, this leader sets divisional technology direction, resolves cross-division trade-offs, and ensures the right technical specialists are aligned to the most important divisional outcomes. This position requires a senior leader with strong business partnership, communication, and organizational skills who can operate at the intersection of business strategy, technology strategy, platform alignment, and governance. The Senior Director will create clarity from complexity, chair the Architecture Review Board, develop senior technical talent, and establish practical direction that helps Pfizer’s divisions deliver faster, safer, and more reusable digital capabilities at global scale. ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES Business Division Liaison: Serve as the primary liaison between the business divisions and Digital, understanding divisional priorities and translating them into aligned technology direction and platform adoption. Platform and Standards Alignment: Strategically align divisional technology needs, programs, and projects to the eight Digital Core Platforms and Pfizer’s digital standards, driving reuse, consistency, and clean integration rather than divergent divisional solutions. Divisional Program and Project Alignment: Ensure key divisional programs and projects are strategically aligned to enterprise platforms and standards from the outset, translating divisional needs into practical technology choices, delivery models, and measurable outcomes. Technical Specialist Team Leadership: Oversee, lead, and develop a team of Director-level Technical Specialists, setting direction, balancing coverage across divisions, and ensuring consistent quality and alignment to enterprise standards. Architecture Review Board Leadership: Play a leading role in the Architecture Review Board (ARB), chairing or co-leading reviews, upholding digital and architecture standards, and ensuring major divisional technology decisions are sound, compliant, and aligned to the enterprise platform strategy. Leadership, Communication, and Organization: Provide clear leadership and set direction with strong, structured communication; organize and coordinate work across many divisions, specialists, and stakeholders; and build a high-performing, inclusive team culture of accountability and continuous learning. Governance and Delivery Assurance: Establish and uphold expectations for digital standards, reliability, security, documentation, and operational excellence across divisional technology, and provide the governance and reporting that keep senior leaders informed and the portfolio aligned. ROLE BEHAVIOURS Don't Lose Your Curiosity: Fosters a culture of curiosity and continuous learning across the divisions and technical specialist team; sponsors experimentation and cross-division learning; brings emerging technologies and outside-in perspectives into divisional technology direction Set an example for your team: Consistently demonstrate a clear vision, positive energy, and exemplary leadership that motivate the technical specialist team and divisional stakeholders to strive for their highest potential Own the Outcome: Sets clear accountability standards focused on business impact and platform alignment; takes end-to-end ownership of divisional technology outcomes; drives quality and delivery commitments in the AI era Connect Across Disciplines: Connects work across divisions, specialists, platforms, and business domains; inspires holistic solutions and reuse; translates specialized knowledge into accessible explanations; thinks like a business insider Communicate with Precision: Communicates with exceptional clarity and structure; frames trade-offs and priorities crisply; tailors the message from senior business leaders to engineers; drives clarity and alignment as a core value across the divisions Think in Systems: Shapes systems design and architecture practices across the divisions; connects divisional programs into a coherent whole; anticipates dependencies and risks; influences cross-team architecture decisions through the Architecture Review Board; creates clarity from complexity QUALIFICATIONS Basic Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a related field, with 12+ years of significant leadership experience in technology strategy, business partnership, or large-scale program delivery. Demonstrated experience aligning business-division technology needs and programs to enterprise platforms and standards. Proven ability to lead and develop senior technical talent, including Director-level specialists and other senior technical colleagues. Experience partnering with and advising senior business and Digital leaders on technology direction, priorities, trade-offs, and measurable business outcomes. Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, digital standards, cloud platforms, data and integration patterns, AI-enabled delivery, security, and technology governance. Preferred Qualifications Advanced degree in technology, engineering, business, or a related discipline preferred. Experience operating in a highly regulated, global enterprise environment with complex compliance, privacy, security, and risk expectations. Experience leading or chairing an architecture review board, governance forum, or technology standards body. Track record of influencing C-suite or enterprise leadership teams, building trusted partnerships, and creating clarity in ambiguous, high-impact situations. Demonstrated strength in business partnership and in leading cross-functional teams with exceptional communication, organization, and stakeholder management. Leadership Capabilities Business and Technology Judgment: Connects business-division needs, the eight Digital Core Platforms, and digital standards into a practical direction that guides investment and execution. Leadership and Communication: Leads with clarity and confidence; communicates with exceptional precision and structure; organizes and coordinates complex work across many teams; frames trade-offs, builds alignment, and drives decisions. Technical Depth and Breadth: Brings enough hands-on technical and architectural credibility to guide senior specialists, challenge assumptions, uphold digital standards, and make sound enterprise-scale choices. Talent Leadership: Develops senior technical leaders and specialists, builds succession plans, strengthens team capability, and creates an inclusive culture of accountability, curiosity, and continuous learning. AI and Modern Delivery Mindset: Understands how AI, automation, modern engineering, product thinking, and platform reuse can improve speed, quality, and value while maintaining appropriate controls and verification. 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. Work Location Assignment: Hybrid Additional Posting Locations: Tampa, FL, Collegeville, PA, Groton, CT, La Jolla, CA, Bothell, WA, Canada, Greece, Ireland, Switzerland and Walton Oaks (UK). On site strongly