Director, Enterprise Architect – AI & Data

Role Summary

The Director, AI & Data is responsible for directly overseeing and organizing wide-reaching Pfizer initiatives through digital-wide initiatives, or via horizontal platforms and products. As an individual contributor, your primary impact is through your direct work. You are a widely recognized expert in your technical domain able to articulate clearly to a deep technical level and you are equally comfortable with forming business objectives and producing clear business-facing outcomes. This role reports to the Senior Director of AI & Data Enterprise Architecture which is responsible for the enterprise-wide architecture of AI & Data.

Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce enterprise-wide AI standards, governance frameworks, and guardrails to ensure responsible, ethical, and compliant development and deployment of AI solutions across the organization.
• Design and architect a centralized AI platform that supports scalable model development, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management for commercial, clinical, and operational use cases.
• Lead the integration of AI/ML solutions into business workflows, ensuring alignment with standardized processes, regulatory requirements, and enterprise architecture principles.
• Develop and maintain architecture roadmaps for data and AI capabilities, aligning technology investments with evolving business models and strategic priorities.
• Drive the adoption of cloud-based data and AI platforms, enabling secure, compliant, and interoperable data pipelines and analytics across business units.
• Establish and oversee data governance frameworks—including master data management, data lineage, and metadata standards—to support high-quality, compliant data for AI and analytics.
• Lead the evaluation and implementation of emerging AI technologies (e.g., generative AI, federated learning, synthetic data) to accelerate digital transformation and maintain competitive advantage.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed AI-driven decision support into commercial, clinical, and operational workflows, enhancing business agility and innovation.
• Mentor and guide data engineers, data scientists, and business analysts, fostering a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and best practices in data and AI architecture.
• Lead initiatives to bring new technology into Pfizer including the contracting process, co-leading RFIs and RFP responses, and producing a technical fit assessment of each vendor.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s Degree / Master’s degree from accredited institution
• Required: 8+ years of experience in AI & Data Technology
• Required: Deep technical knowledge of AI & Data programs, technical designs & patterns in a high-tech and/or pharma domain
• Required: Strong interpersonal and leadership skills where you are not a direct manager
• Required: Strong diplomacy skills; able to navigate a difficult political environment
• Required: An execution mindset focused on getting things done quickly and simply
• Preferred: 5+ years of experience working with systems that ensure pharma processes that fully comply with industry regulations and quality standards (FDA, GxP)
• Preferred: 5+ years of experience leading the design and architecture of AI & Data solutions to optimize performance across procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and planning
• Preferred: Experience with data-driven insights to inform decision making and AI-driven technology programs

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree / Master’s degree from accredited institution

Additional Requirements

• Pfizer Digital is a 7x24x365 global endeavor. This role may require physical or virtual participation on a weekend, holiday, or after normal business hours.