Role Summary
The Director, Enterprise Architect is responsible for directly overseeing and organizing Pfizer initiatives through a business aligned vertical or functionally aligned horizontal. 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 comfortable understanding the business direction with input from business leadership.
This role reports to the [VP/Sr. Director Enterprise Architecture Role] which is responsible for the [Group Role Here].
Key accountabilities:
- Deliver Enterprise Architecture Outcomes including creation of detailed Solution Sketches, City Plans, and Solution Architecture Diagrams as necessary.
- Works on a variety of strategic initiatives within area of remit, leading complex projects within a business unit providing technical and strategic context.
- Advise Senior leadership on both technical constraints and the business constraints telling the common narrative of how those things interact with one another.
- Be the trusted voice for the enterprise as it relates to technical architecture.
- Contribute to business fit and focus of key initiatives.
- Mentor more junior colleagues and provide them with guidance and growth opportunities.
Role Responsibilities
Service Delivery:
- Dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Directs and proposes Enterprise Architecture fit for new and existing technical components.
- Understands customers operational needs and helps to drive strategic direction.
- Anticipates internal/external business and regulatory/compliance issues that impact the system design.
Strategy & Planning:
- Uses innovative business thinking to challenge the status quo and drive identification, quantification and proposal of business solutions.
- Leads proactive initiatives to drive Enterprise Architecture Strategy directly or at the direction of EA Leadership
Architecture:
- Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the targeted business outcomes.
- Accountable for the formulation of solution implementation approach, building consensus on approach, and providing technical execution oversight of such solutions.
- Influences management/senior staff decisions via focused innovation engineering exercises and proof-based experimentation.
- Knowledgeable about the regulatory constraints of leveraging cloud solutions in the healthcare industry with input from others.
- Understands modern cloud architecture best practices and is well-versed in Amazon Web Services-based architecture.
Communication:
- Is recognized as an Expert in their given domain area within an organizational unit.
- Develops and sustains constructive partnerships between business and technical stakeholders to ensure success of projects.
- Can write clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles, at all levels of the organization; can get messages across that have the desired effect.
- Ensures effective, accurate and timely communication across the portfolio; prepares and delivers regular updates on project status, both in written and presentation format, to sponsors, business leaders and stakeholder groups.
Innovation and Risk Taking
- Creates an environment where innovation is standard taking appropriate risks to advance innovative processes.
Financial Management:
- Effectively manages project budget resources in alignment with product / program needs.
Matrixed Team Effectiveness:
- Is highly skilled in a variety of formal presentation settings; one-on-one, small and large groups, with peers, and senior management; is effective both inside and outside the organization; commands attention and can manage group process during the presentation; can change tactics midstream when something isn't working.
- Utilizes negotiation, facilitation, meeting management and conflict resolution skills to enhance cross-functional team performance.
- Arbitrates disagreements among solution stakeholders and makes business decisions/proposals where needed.
- Understands and communicates team roles/responsibilities and ensures all team members have access to project information necessary to be successful.
- Solicits and evaluates vendor proposals with to augment internal expertise in service delivery.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree from accredited institution
- 10+ years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrated experience with cloud solutions (i.e.: Amazon, Google, Microsoft Azure)
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Strong diplomacy skills; able to navigate a difficult political environment.
- Demonstrated ability to translate marketing material into actionable and understandable truth.
- An execution mindset focused on getting things done quickly and simply.
- Demonstrated experience with one or more Pfizer core platforms (Adobe AEM, Salesforce)
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of business domain expertise in one more research and /or product development areas in Life sciences or related industry
- AWS /Azure cloud architect certification
- Experience with multiple software delivery models
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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