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Director, Engineering Lead - Customer Journey & Activation Services, Ringsend
Location: Ringsend, Ireland
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: caf9e10fa7b7
Job Views: 61
Posted: 21.01.2025
Expiry Date: 07.03.2025
Job Description:
About the team
At Pfizer we make medicines and vaccines that change patients' lives with a global reach of over 780 million patients. Pfizer Digital is the organization charged with winning the digital race in the pharmaceutical industry. We apply our expertise in technology, innovation, and our business to support Pfizer in this mission.
The Biopharma, Patient & CDI (BPC) team creates technology solutions for our external customers. This includes all digital (web, mobile, omni-channel, & devices) products, platforms, services, and experiences in service of patients, HCPs, payors, pharmacists, or clinical sites.
Within BPC, the Platform DevOps team is accountable for the platforms at Pfizer that allow the creation, configuration, launch, and support of all externally facing digital (web, mobile, omni-channel, & device) products, services, and experiences, servicing all external customer types at Pfizer. This includes our Marketing Technology (Martech) platform.
Our MarTech team manages the customer data that Pfizer collects from its integrated websites, mobile apps, and marketing platforms. We have a range of traditional MarTech as well as journey orchestration, channel and analytics tools. Our platform has evolved over 8 years to send millions of emails and integrate billions of customer interactions and events.
Our mission over the next few years is to change how customer data is managed, from fragmented implementations to a coherent customer-data ecosystem of services dedicated to the collection and management of profiles, consents, and organized data. We also aim to improve the marketer experience and to improve patient outcomes through tools that enable our marketing teams to create finely tuned, intelligent, and relevant audiences, messages, and journeys that can be activated across any or all of our channel options.
Role Summary
We seek a leader to join our team and be the Engineering Lead for two critical areas within our overall offering:
1. Journey Orchestration & Campaign Building Service
2. Channel Activation Services
In this leadership and management role, you will act as visionary and executor of these technical services. You will lead teams totaling 10-20 colleague and contract resources to understand the business contexts, solve complex engineering problems, craft the technical designs, and ensure a successful delivery of high-quality products and services from inception to completion. This role requires exceptional technical knowledge and experience in the modern MarTech space, strong management skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams while sharing responsibility with other program leads for achieving the desired objectives.
You will be accountable for delivery of security-and privacy-first capabilities while creating an environment where engineers can do their best work as measured by a quarterly Developer’s Experience survey. You will align with and contribute to our network of service managers and principal engineers.
This role requires a mix of strategic thought, negotiation/influencing, planning, team management, delivery management, and the ability to meet the “hands on” engineers where they are to discuss issues, suggest solutions, review code, and ensure we meet our duties of technical excellence, security, and protecting customer data.
Responsibilities
The core responsibility for this role is to ensure that all business needs identified for your Journey Orchestration, Campaign Building, and Channel Activation services are met and managed. Your purview encompasses all product, project, and service roadmaps, in partnership with leaders from within our Chief Marketing Office (CMO).
Key to the success of this role is your ability to leverage your extensive MarTech engineering experience to understand the landscape, influence strategy, make good decisions, and then deliver on them as part of the wider CRM and Customer Data ecosystem and architecture. You will often act as a translator between business stakeholders and technical engineers, to ensure that technical, security, and privacy considerations are represented in strategic discussions and business objectives are being met by our solutions.
You will work with your CMO and other partners to craft product roadmap, bringing your extensive MarTech engineering experience to bear to shape requirements and delivery plans. You will work with your reports to execute and manage the delivery, setting and maintaining expectations appropriately, handling speed bumps and pivots, and balancing progress with our duties of technical excellence, security, and protecting customer data.
Service Delivery and DevOps culture
Key to the success of this role is the ability to design and run the operating model for the services. You need to ensure the successful operation of these services, their reliability, uptime, and that they are consistently fit for purpose, well configured, and operated securely. Part of this entails creating a culture of quality and continuous improvement throughout your teams from early project planning through to delivery and sustainable operations. The successful candidate will have all the technical, leadership, and interpersonal skills required to create a sustainable environment of collaboration across multiple teams at Pfizer.
You will also need to be able to manage incidents when they arise through carefully prepared processes and thoughtful vendor management and communication approaches. Success in this role will be measured not just by performance of applications under scope, but by the culture of quality that is created throughout the team and in finding opportunities to improve stability, security, and performance.
Management duties
You will manage Pfizer colleagues, technology vendors, and a multi-national team of on/near/off-shore resources. You need to be an experienced people leader, with the ability to collaborate and influence across Platform DevOps, Chief Marketing Office, and Pfizer Digital in general, including engineering and product roles.
You will need to build a team able to accept and accommodate change. Our Marketing capabilities, people, skills, and strategies are evolving rapidly and our teams have to be able to adapt to this changing landscape.
You will need to be comfortable actively managing vendor relationships to ensure Pfizer is getting the quality and responsiveness required to ensure high quality outcomes for our customers.
Finance Management
This role will require excellent financial management capability with responsibility for portions of a multi-million-dollar budget and multiple service contracts.
Qualifications and education
In order to fulfill your responsibilities, we expect that you possess and can demonstrate:
1. Proven, extensive MarTech experience across Adobe & Salesforce’s ecosystems working on large, enterprise implementations including data ETL, identity graphs, complex workflows, and automation, campaign automation, and channel automation.
2. Proven experience with other MarTech suppliers and tools is preferred.
3. Proven, Extensive experience in software engineering, with a focus on “hands on” leading of complex projects.
4. Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a keen attention to detail.
5. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to establish relationships, influence outcomes, and deliver effective presentations to a variety of audiences.
6. Ability to work with others in a constructive and collaborative manner & able to influence resources outside of immediate span of control.
7. Ability to lead in a complex, matrix environment with geographically distributed resources.
8. Excellent skills in analysis, critical thinking and planning, oral and written communication, consensus building, facilitation, negotiation, and the ability to readily learn a new business area.
9. Proven capability handling large scale, enterprise software requirements definition, designs, and implementations in a global 24/7 environment.
10. Proven technology solutions delivery in a pharmaceutical or regulated environment.
11. A broad technical knowledge of digital pharmaceutical sciences platforms and best practices across both user interfaces and back-end systems, as a “jack of all trades.”
12. Proven leadership skills, mentorship, with the ability to motivate and inspire team members and fellow engineers towards achieving common goals.
13. Deep understanding of software development methodologies and best practices for implementing principles of privacy & security ‘by design’.
14. Understanding of the implications, regulations, and best practices of data handling in the pharmaceutical industry.
15. Understanding of the DevSecOps best practices that should be in place, driving an “Everything as Code instead of paperwork” mentality.
16. Familiarity with the multiple policies, standards, systems, and organizations within the pharmaceutical industry, to minimize risk of challenges or duplication in implementation.
Key Qualifications
1. Minimum of 10 years’ experience with increasing responsibility delivering digital solutions, products, and services.
2. Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
3. Professional certifications in engineering leadership are a plus.
We don't expect you to know everything, but we need people with sufficient experience to do most of the job and who are open to learning new things.
NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS
This is a global role, in a team whose stakeholders and resources are largely based in North America. Travel therefore may be required from time to time. Attendance at meetings in the Eastern US time zone will be required.
Last Date to Apply for Job: 7/24/2024
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $161,600.00 to $269,400.00.* In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 20.0% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share-based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage.
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
EEO & Employment Eligibility
Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.
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