Senior Platform Architect & Strategy Leader

Pfizer; Bothell (WA); Hybrid; USD 215,000 - 358,000; Full time

Job summary

Pfizer is seeking a Senior Director, Principal Technical Architect to own the technical strategy and architecture of one of Pfizer’s key Digital Platforms. This leader will define and advance the Platform’s technical direction, ensuring it is modern, secure, scalable, reusable, and aligned to enterprise standards and business priorities.

This role drives the engineering teams that build and operate the Platform, collaborates with senior leaders, product owners, and enterprise architects to

Qualifications

• Experience owning technical strategy and architecture for a major platform.
• Ability to lead and develop engineering teams across disciplines.
• Hands-on expertise in modern engineering practices, cloud platforms, data and integration patterns, APIs, security, and reliability.
• Experience partnering with senior business and Digital stakeholders to shape technical direction, investment choices, and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Platform Technical Strategy: Own the technical strategy for the Platform, connecting business priorities, enterprise architecture standards, and emerging technology into a clear, actionable roadmap and target-state architecture.
• Architecture and Design Authority: Serve as the design authority for the Platform, defining its target architecture, key technical standards, and integration patterns, and ensuring major technical decisions are sound, sustainable, and fit for enterprise scale.
• Platform Engineering Leadership: Lead and develop the engineering team(s) that build and operate the Platform, ensuring investments are modern, secure, scalable, reusable, and aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Partner with senior business and Digital leaders, product owners, and divisional teams to translate ambiguous needs into practical technical choices, delivery models, and measurable outcomes for the Platform.
• AI-Enabled Delivery: Define how AI, automation, and modern engineering practices are responsibly applied to the Platform to increase speed, improve quality, strengthen decision-making, and maintain appropriate governance and verification.
• Technical Talent and Culture: Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of engineers and technical leads, creating a culture of technical excellence, hands-on credibility, business partnership, accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Reliability, Security, and Governance: Establish and uphold expectations for reliability, security, documentation, and operational excellence across the Platform, ensuring it is compliant, observable, and resilient at global scale.

Skills

Technical leadership

Enterprise architecture

Cloud platforms

APIs & integration

AI-enabled delivery

Stakeholder partnership

Education

Bachelor's degree (CS/Engineering/IS)

Job description

Pfizer is seeking a Senior Director, Principal Technical Architect to own the technical strategy and architecture of one of Pfizer’s key Digital Platforms. This leader will define and advance the Platform’s technical direction, ensuring it is modern, secure, scalable, reusable, and aligned to enterprise standards and business priorities.

This role drives the engineering teams that build and operate the Platform, collaborates with senior leaders, product owners, and enterprise architects to