Hybrid Director, Product Engineering

at Pfizer

• Job title: Director, Product Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Cyber Security, Microservices
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Thessaloniki, Greece

About the role

• Director of Product Engineering managing engineering excellence for digital manufacturing applications at Pfizer. Overseeing software delivery and team development across a global organization.

Responsibilities

• Oversee multiple concurrent development initiatives supporting the Digital Manufacturing portfolio
• Drive end-to-end solution delivery, architecture, design, development testing, deployment and sustainment
• Manage competing priorities and resource allocations across projects, balancing delivery speed with quality and compliance
• Partner with product managers, solution architects, and business stakeholders to align engineering outcomes with product roadmaps
• Define and uphold modern engineering standards such as CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, automated testing, observability and secure-by-design principles
• Ensure system architectures are scalable, reliable, and maintainable across global deployments
• Manage technical debt and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance performance and efficiency
• Drive alignment with enterprise architecture, data, and cybersecurity standards
• Partner with AI COE, Manufacturing Intelligence, Data Engineering and Platform Engineering teams to enable AI-powered features and intelligent automation
• Maintain a high-level understanding of the tools, frameworks, and infrastructure supporting AI and agentic systems (e.g. LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, orchestration frameworks like LangChain or Semantic Kernel)
• Advocate for AI readiness within existing applications and influence the technical direction of future applications
• Lead and inspire a global team of software enterprise-grade digital manufacturing applications
• Serve as a hands-on technical mentor guiding junior engineers, facilitating skill growth and fostering a culture of excellence
• Build an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance engineering culture centered on ownership, continuous improvement, learning and accountability
• Establish clear career paths and succession planning within the team
• Ensure all solutions adhere to Pfizer’s digital standards, including cybersecurity, GxP, and data integrity requirements
• Establish and track engineering KPIs – delivery, velocity, system uptime, incident response times, and technical debt reduction
• Drive transparency through dashboards and regular operational reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or relevant experience
• Minimum 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including full-stack or backend development in enterprise environments
• Demonstrated experience leading high-performing engineering teams delivering complex, mission-critical applications
• Strong technical depth in modern software architectures, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native design patterns
• Proven success managing competing priorities, allocating resources effectively, and communicating tradeoffs with senior stakeholders
• Experience mentoring engineers and establishing professional growth and development paths within engineering teams
• Working knowledge of AI technologies and architectures including experience with LLMs, RAG vector databases, orchestration frameworks (e.g. LangChain, Semantic Kernel), or intelligent agent systems
• Strong communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and business audiences
• Demonstrated success operating in global, matrixed organizations.

Benefits

• Flexible workplace culture
• Professional development