Director Engineering - Team Lead

Lead a team responsible for developing AI-enabled marketing platforms, focusing on scalable, reusable data capabilities and real-time decisioning systems in cloud and AI environments.

About the role

Define platform vision, architect cloud-native systems optimized for AI workflows, ensure data reliability and precision, and collaborate across departments to meet business goals. Serve as a key partner to Data engineers, AI/ML engineers, product managers, and external technical teams to build real-time data pipelines and decisioning frameworks, enabling automated intelligent marketing workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the platform vision as a product, with clear adoption, usability, and business impact goals; build reusable, scalable capabilities for self-service data access, segmentation, and activation; establish standardized integration patterns across data, cloud, CRM, and media ecosystems.
• Architect systems optimized for AI-driven and agentic workflows, including real-time decisioning and orchestration; enable intelligent audience creation, activation pathways, and automated optimization across CRM and media; build data pipelines and services that support scalable AI/ML use cases and continuous learning systems.
• Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of engineers with strong ownership and execution discipline; stay close to architecture and critical technical decisions while empowering team autonomy; drive engineering excellence across system design, code quality, and reliability.
• Design and evolve distributed, cloud-native, and AI-forward systems that are scalable, secure, and highly available; lead architecture across data platforms, APIs, integrations, and activation pipelines; ensure systems meet enterprise standards for resilience, performance, and compliance.
• Own end-to-end delivery of platform capabilities—from architecture through deployment and adoption; establish best practices in CI/CD and automation; define and track key metrics: data accuracy, deployment velocity, and speed to activation.
• Partner with Product, Data, Marketing, and external platforms to translate business needs into scalable systems; influence decisions across a matrixed organization and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with demonstrated ability to lead and mentor highly technical teams.
• Expertise in cloud environments, data platforms, and system integrations that support media and marketing workflows.
• Track record of delivering complex, cross-functional, global platform initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in Martech/Adtech ecosystems (DSPs, CRM, data activation platforms).
• Exposure to AI/ML systems, real-time data pipelines, and decisioning frameworks.
• Strong understanding of platform engineering and internal developer platforms.
• Experience operating in product-led, outcome-driven environments.
• Demonstrated breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities, including the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, and oversee the work of colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and business impact.

Schedule

This position is hybrid and requires working onsite 2 to 3 days per week.

Pay

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $176,600 to $294,300. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 20% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share-based long-term incentive program.

Benefits

• 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.
• Health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
• Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer. U.S. work visa sponsorship is not available for this role now or in the future. Ability to travel based on business needs.