Senior Director, Engineering

Pfizer

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York City, NYCollegeville, PA
Salary
$214,900–$358,100 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Sep 24, 2026

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $221k
This role $286k
$147k most similar roles pay here $381k

This role pays more than 79% of similar roles. Most pay $177,137–$264,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $286k versus about $221k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 32 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $106,000–$176,600 across 32 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Director, Engineering

Senior Director, Engineering leads the engineering build accountability for the Medical Affairs Digital and AI portfolio. This leader manages a team of Build Engineers and a Data Integration Engineer to transform solution architecture and product requirements into production-grade systems at enterprise scale. The role involves establishing engineering standards, managing CI/CD pipelines, and overseeing LLMOps and MLOps practices for Agentic AI and LLM-based systems. Key responsibilities include building RAG pipelines, ensuring data integration across platforms like Veeva CRM and Salesforce Life Sciences, and maintaining production reliability while navigating GxP, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance. The candidate will utilize skills in AWS or Azure cloud architecture, API-first design, vector databases, and agent orchestration frameworks. This role solves the challenge of delivering high-quality, secure AI-powered products within a regulated pharmaceutical environment by bridging the gap between technical blueprints and deployed software.

What you'll do

  • Translate solution architecture and product requirements into production-grade AI systems at enterprise scale.
  • Establish engineering standards, coding practices, and technical quality bars across the build team.
  • Manage CI/CD pipelines, LLMOps/MLOps practices, and release management for AI and software components.
  • Oversee data integration engineering across core enterprise systems to feed AI and analytics platforms.
  • Ensure production reliability, uptime, and compliance with regulatory requirements like GxP, HIPAA, and GDPR.
  • Manage, coach, and develop a team of build engineers and data integration specialists.
  • Partner with architecture and product leadership to define delivery plans, vendor selections, and technical roadmaps.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 12+ years of progressive software/data engineering experience.
  • 4-5+ years of experience in an engineering leadership or management role.
  • Demonstrated experience building and shipping production AI/ML or LLM-based systems at enterprise scale.
  • Hands-on experience with modern cloud architecture (AWS or Azure), API-first design, and CI/CD/DevOps practices.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMOps/MLOps tooling, vector databases, RAG pipeline engineering, and agent orchestration frameworks.
  • Experience with data integration engineering and pipeline development across enterprise systems.
  • Work authorization in the United States.

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