Director, Cloud Engineering
- Greece-Thessaloniki Chortiatis
ROLE SUMMARY
At the heart of Pfizer’s Digital transformation sits Global Cloud Services, delivering modern cloud platforms, engineering capabilities, and operational excellence that directly shape business outcomes across the enterprise.
We are seeking a Director of Cloud Engineering to lead our multicloud strategy and engineering organization within Pfizer Digital. This role operates on a global scale, driving cloud modernization, platform reliability, and engineering innovation that supports Pfizer’s mission of delivering breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.
The Director of Cloud Engineering is a strategic technical leader responsible for shaping cloud architecture direction, evolving engineering practices, and ensuring our cloud platforms remain secure, compliant, scalable, and efficient. The ideal candidate brings deep multicloud expertise, proven experience leading highperforming engineering teams, and the ability to influence across a large, complex, matrixed enterprise.
Pfizer seeks individuals who are transformational, curious, and committed to continuous growth — leaders who bring passion for technology, empowerment of teams, and operational excellence.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategic Leadership & Vision
Define, evolve, and communicate Pfizer’s multi-cloud engineering strategy and roadmap.
Partner with security, engineering, and business leaders to align cloud capabilities with enterprise objectives.
Lead the adoption of modern cloud-native architectures and engineering patterns across Pfizer Digital.
Team & Organizational Leadership
Lead and develop multiple teams of cloud engineers, technical leads
Build a culture of innovation, learning, accountability, and engineering excellence.
Mentor senior engineers and emerging leaders, growing the next generation of technical talent.
Technical Ownership & Architecture
Oversee the design and governance of standards for multi-cloud infrastructure, including networking, security, identity, observability, and platform automation.
Drive consistent adoption of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Python) and platform automation via Spacelift or equivalent tooling.
Establish reusable cloud design patterns and reference architectures that accelerate product teams and reduce technical debt.
Operational Excellence & Security
Maintain a secure, compliant, and resilient hosting environment supporting business-critical systems.
Collaborate with SRE, security, and operations teams to enhance reliability, performance, and cloud posture.
Serve as senior escalation point for highimpact cloud incidents (minimal handson operational work).
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
Stay ahead of emerging cloud technologies and industry trends to drive platform modernization.
Champion automation-first approaches, improving delivery speed, repeatability, and consistency.
Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives across engineering, architecture, and operations.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work with global engineering, application development, cybersecurity, and compliance teams to deliver seamless endtoend cloud capabilities.
Support business units and product teams in adopting bestpractice cloud architectures and cloudnative services.
Represent Cloud Services in architecture forums, governance councils, and strategic investment discussions.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or equivalent experience.
10–15+ years of experience in cloud or software engineering, platform architecture, or infrastructure leadership roles.
At least 5 years leading multiple engineering teams or large, complex technical organizations.
Deep expertise across at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with strong multi-cloud familiarity.
Expert-level experience designing and deploying infrastructure using IaC tools.
Strong programming and automation experience (Python preferred).
Proven track record influencing across large matrixed organizations.
Strong leadership capabilities, with experience coaching and developing senior engineers.
Demonstrated ability to set priorities, define long-term strategy, and deliver highvalue outcomes.
Customercentric mindset with the ability to align cloud capabilities to business needs.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Multi-cloud architectural experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Experience defining enterprise cloud standards and governance frameworks.
Expertise with Spacelift or similar IaC automation platforms.
Contributions to open-source cloud or infrastructure tooling.
Advanced cloud certifications (AWS SAPro, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert).
Experience working in global organizations with distributed engineering teams.
Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
Purpose
Breakthroughs that change patients' lives... At Pfizer we are a patient centric company, guided by our four values: courage, joy, equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives.
Digital Transformation Strategy
One bold way we are achieving our purpose is through our company wide digital transformation strategy. We are leading the way in adopting new data, modelling and automated solutions to further digitize and accelerate drug discovery and development with the aim of enhancing health outcomes and the patient experience.
Flexibility
We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Let’s start the conversation!
Equal Employment Opportunity
We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer, Pfizer is committed to celebrating this, in all its forms – allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees.
Disability Inclusion
Our mission is unleashing the power of all our people and we are proud to be a disability inclusive employer, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all candidates. We encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments to support your application and future career. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!
Breakthroughs that change patients’ lives
Research confirms what intuition tells us: that purpose-driven companies perform better, are more innovative, attract and retain the best people, and know how to unleash the power of those people. Pfizer’s purpose—Breakthroughs that change patients' lives—fuels everything we do and reflects our passion for building on our legacy as one of the greatest contributors of good to the world.
Each word in our purpose has meaning and reflects the value we strive to bring to patients and society:
“Breakthroughs” - These are the innovations, scientific and commercial, that we seek to deliver every day. All colleagues, regardless of role, level or location, strive for breakthroughs every day.
“Change” - We want to do more than simply improve patients’ medical conditions; we want to dramatically change their lives for the better.
“Patients’ lives” - We consider not only patients, but everyone they touch—including their families, caregivers, and friends—and everything they love to do. It’s an intentionally holistic view.
Our purpose ensures that patients remain at the center of all we do. We live our purpose by sourcing the best science in the world; partnering with others in the healthcare system to improve access to our medicines; using digital technologies to enhance our drug discovery and development, as well as patient outcomes; and leading the conversation to advocate for pro-innovation/pro-patient policies.
Every decision we make and every action we take is done with the patient in mind—and to nurture an environment where breakthroughs can thrive.
Our Values
To fully realize Pfizer’s purpose, we have established a clear set of expectations regarding “what” we need to achieve for patients and “how” we will go about achieving those goals.
The “how” is represented by four simple, powerful values—courage, excellence, equity, and joy—that define our company and our culture.
Courage: Breakthroughs start by challenging convention, especially in the face of uncertainty or adversity. This happens when we think big, speak up, and are decisive.
Excellence: We can only change patients’ lives when we perform at our best together. This happens when we focus on what matters, agree who does what, and measure our outcomes.
Equity: We believe that every person deserves to be seen, heard, and cared for. This happens when we are inclusive, act with integrity, and reduce healthcare disparities.
Joy: We give ourselves to our work, but it also gives to us. We find joy when we take pride, recognize one another, and have fun.
Pfizer Digital
Pfizer Digital takes immense pride in being at the forefront of innovation, harnessing cutting-edge smart technology that profoundly impacts the lives of our patients.
With the transformative potential of digital solutions, we revolutionize how we discover, develop, and deliver medicines, enabling us to achieve breakthroughs faster and more efficiently.
By streamlining and automating transactional processes, we create valuable time and resources, empowering our talented team to focus on meaningful work that truly makes a difference in healthcare and beyond.
Benefits at Pfizer
Pfizer offers competitive compensation and benefits programs designed to meet the diverse needs of our colleagues. Our Pay for Performance Philosophy and Practices reward colleagues based on the contributions they make to our business.
Our Competitive Benefits Programs help our colleagues by:
- Promoting Health and Wellness to help colleagues maintain and improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Pfizer offerings include health and disability insurance, preventative health programs, medical screenings, free or reduced-cost vaccinations, discounts on Pfizer products, mental health support, nutrition and fitness counseling and more.
- Strengthening Colleagues’ Financial Security by providing company contributions to retirement plans, life insurance and financial planning education to help colleagues achieve their financial goals.
- Providing Benefits and Time off for the Moments that Matter to ensure Pfizer colleagues have the time away from the office to recharge, recover and return to work as the best version of themselves. Vacation, Holiday time and Sick time are just the beginning, with a 12 week parental leave policy for both parents of a new born, 10 day of caregiver leave for those times when your family needs you whether it’s a child, spouse or parent, bereavement leave, and additional country-specific programs.
- And so much more, depending on your country and site, Pfizer offers childcare facilities or discount programs, on-site health and/or fitness centers, movement and mindfulness solutions, “Log in for your Day” work flexibility and so much more.
For U.S. based jobs, view an overview of Pfizer’s U.S. benefits program (opens in a new window)