Director, Veeva Platform Technical Lead

Why Patients Need You
In Pfizer Research & Development Digital, we enable our R&D partners to accelerate drug development and clinical trials through digital products and solutions. Within R&D Digital, the Veeva Platform & Services function is responsible for defining the strategy and leading the delivery of the Veeva product suite to end users
As the VEEVA CoE Veeva Platform Technical Lead, you will be building the foundation on the Veeva Platform. You will lead the Veeva Platform Services and will be responsible and accountable for technology architecture, design, best practices, demand prioritization and end-to-end solution delivery for projects, releases and enhancements with best-in-class quality at enterprise scale across Pfizer R&D, including the focus on UI, Mobile, Tools, Veeva ID, etc. You will manage and lead a team of platform and solutions specialists to lead solution architecture, system administration, security, and procedures across the Veeva Vault Platform.
To excel in this role, you should have strong system architecture knowledge and experience leading development teams to drive on time, on budget completion of technical projects with required quality. Effective relationship skills are crucial for handling various stakeholder groups such as developers, R&D Digital Leadership, Client Partners, and the R&D business community to ensure that solutions address business and user needs. Additionally, this role will serve as an advisor to senior leadership and management regarding investment decisions and demand prioritization for a compliant platform.
What You Will Achieve
In this role, you will:

• Engage with Customers and Stakeholders: Forge strong relationships to gain a deep understanding of requirements and deliver solutions using Agile/SAFe methodologies.
• Lead Solutions Delivery: Direct your team in the design, development, testing, and delivery of high-value Veeva Platform solutions and focus on ensuring high availability, platform best practices, building foundational AI solutions for Veeva platform, analytics, reporting and support automated testing
• Cross Vault Governance : Collaborate with Cross vault team and business stakeholders to drive cross vault content and data governance
• Provide Technical Leadership: Offer expertise in architecture and design to ensure robust and scalable solutions, collaborating with Digital product teams, Enterprise Architecture, AIDA and functional stakeholders.
• Strategize with Senior Management: Craft strategic proposals for investment in the Veeva Platform, influencing long-term technology roadmaps.
• Mentor and Develop Teams: Manage team capacity, hire new talent, and provide mentorship to ensure a high-performing team.
• Prioritize Demands: Review and approve project prioritization based on business value and ROI, while escalating budget and resource needs to higher-level leadership for approval.
• Navigate Complex Situations: Tackle the challenges of change management across Pfizer R&D, leading engagements with IT and business stakeholders to drive clarity and consensus.
• Champion Agile Leadership: As a Technical lead, gather stakeholder feedback and lead platform delivery following Agile/SAFe principles, often working directly with cross-functional teams.

Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ Years experience in Application Services development, delivery, and stakeholder management in the Veeva Platform space, or related areas or Master's Degree and 7+ years of experience or PHD and 5+ years of experience.
• 6+ years progressive experience in Veeva implementation, program management, business analysis, and full life-cycle Cloud implementation
• Extensive experience as an information technology professional in roles such as a software architect and/or developer, systems engineer, computer engineer, engineering lead, technical team lead, infrastructure lead.
• Proven experience in leading platform strategies and implementations, preferably within the life sciences industry.
• Experience managing teams including the financials of contract or colleague resources.
• Deep understanding of the Veeva Vault Platform and its capabilities. Familiarity with life sciences industry standards and practices.
• Knowledge of regulatory impacts (GxP, SOX, etc.) on data processes in the Life Sciences industry.

TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS

• Technology solutions delivery in a pharmaceutical R&D or regulated environment with demonstrated capabilities managing large scale, enterprise software requirements definition, designs and implementations.
• Strong expertise in Platform maintenance and delivery for Veeva including Continuous monitoring, Engineering standards, High Availability, DR & BCP, platform best practices
• Proven leadership in Veeva platform foundation including platform best practices, building foundational AI, Analytics, reporting, automated testing and user experience augmentation.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build relationships, influence outcomes, and to deliver effective presentations to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to lead in a complex, matrix environment with indirect resources geographically distributed.

Demonstrated progressive experience successfully managing software development projects
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)

• As above and including Master's degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Engineering, Technology Management or relevant disciplines.
• Building bolt on AI solutions specifically in Clinical, Regulatory and Quality focus areas

Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
Last day to apply: May 29th, 2025
Work Location Assignment: Must be able to work in assigned Pfizer office 2-3 days per week, or as needed by the business
This role is NOT remote
Travel Requirement: %25
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $169,700.00 to $282,900.00. 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. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site - U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
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