Director, GH&B AI-Ready Data Foundation & Governance

Pfizer

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NYSan Jose, Costa Rica
Salary
$162,900–$271,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
6 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Nov 11, 2026

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About Pfizer

Pfizer Inc. is one of the world''s largest biopharmaceutical companies, researching, developing, manufacturing, and marketing medicines and vaccines across multiple therapeutic areas including oncology, cardiology, and infectious diseases. Industry: Biopharmaceuticals

Pfizer currently has 7 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Director, GH&B AI-Ready Data Foundation & Governance

The Director, GH&B AI-Ready Data Foundation & Governance is an individual contributor role within the Global Hospital & Biosimilars business. This position owns the data foundation, architecture, and design decisions for the business, specifically managing the AI Ready Data Warehouse built on Snowflake. Key responsibilities include establishing ontologies and semantic relationships across manufacturing, commercial, supply, and pricing data domains while enforcing enterprise data governance standards. The role involves maintaining production platforms like Athena and NEO, monitoring data quality for AI/ML models, and managing role-based access. Required skills include proficiency in SQL and Python, experience with Collibra, and expertise in data architecture or engineering. The position solves the technical challenge of creating a consistent, high-quality, and reusable data environment to support business-critical analytics and AI-driven prediction models.

What you'll do

  • Own the GH&B AI Ready Data Warehouse on Snowflake to support AI and machine learning use cases.
  • Establish and maintain ontologies and semantic relationships across manufacturing, commercial, supply, and pricing data domains.
  • Enforce end-to-end data governance standards, including access controls, quality rules, and automated monitoring.
  • Ensure production reliability and uptime for data applications, dashboards, and prediction models.
  • Monitor data quality for production AI/ML models and detect underlying data drift.
  • Establish version control and testing/release processes for warehouse changes, ontologies, and models.
  • Administer role-based access to data platforms to protect sensitive commercial and hospital-market data.
  • Direct contingent contractor resources to build and maintain AI models and production applications.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience, a Master’s with 7+ years, or a Ph.D. with 5+ years.
  • Must have experience in data architecture, data management, data engineering, or data governance.
  • Must have pharmaceutical, biosimilars, or hospital-market industry experience.
  • Must have experience building and operating enterprise data warehouses or AI-ready data platforms like Snowflake.
  • Must have high proficiency in SQL and Python with regular experience coding in production contexts.
  • Must have experience architecting for unstructured data and establishing data ontologies or semantic models.
  • Must have experience setting data governance standards and directing contingent contractor or vendor engineering resources.
  • Must have permanent work authorization in the United States.

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