About this Senior Manager, Information Protection Engineering role at Pfizer
ROLE SUMMARY
Our Global Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance team provides comprehensive blueprints for cybersecurity excellence by embedding governance, risk management, and compliance into every layer. The team is responsible for ensuring risk-based decision-making is used and that security, privacy, and regulatory compliance is integrated seamlessly with Pfizer’s organization.
We are seeking a Senior Manager, Information Protection Engineering, to lead and evolve our information protection capabilities within the Cyber GRC organization. This role is critical to safeguarding sensitive scientific, clinical, patient, and business information across Pfizer’s global enterprise.
The role will lead a team of highly skilled engineers and work closely with CISO organization, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, R&D, Infrastructure, and Cloud Services partners to design, implement, and operate scalable information protection solutions aligned to regulatory requirements and business priorities.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead the definition of enterprise information protection technical strategy, reference architectures, and control frameworks, including DLP, data discovery and classification, and encryption requirements.
Establish and maintain information protection technical standards, guardrails, and design patterns that guide implementation across endpoints, cloud platforms, applications, and collaboration tools.
Define policy and control requirements for encryption, key management, and secrets management in partnership with Cloud, Infrastructure, and Identity teams, ensuring alignment with information protection objectives.
Lead and provide hands-on oversight of the implementation, configuration, and lifecycle governance of information protection technologies such as DLP, data classification, data discovery solutions, and AI information protection.
Provide architectural guidance and design review for information protection integrations within platforms, applications, and business solutions.
Influence tooling decisions through risk‑based requirements, rather than operational ownership of underlying cloud or infrastructure services.
Embed security‑by‑design principles for information protection into the application and platform lifecycle, including requirements for data handling, classification, retention, and policy enforcement.
Partner with Digital, Cloud Services, Infrastructure, and IT teams to ensure information protection controls are designed into platforms, not bolted on post‑deployment.
Partner with Security Operations and Incident Response teams to support detection, investigation, and response to information protection incidents and policy violations.
Ensure information protection capabilities align with enterprise risk management frameworks, internal security standards, and audit expectations.
Collaborate with Privacy, Legal, Compliance, and Cyber GRC teams to ensure information protection controls support global regulatory and industry requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, GxP).
Translate NIST, regulatory, privacy requirements, and risk requirements into clear, implementable information protection technical controls and guidance.
Define and report metrics that demonstrate information protection effectiveness, risk trends, and maturity improvement to Cyber GRC and senior leadership.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
6+ years of experience in cybersecurity or information protection–related roles, with responsibility for enterprise‑scale information protection controls.
Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and operating data loss prevention (DLP) controls across endpoints, email, cloud platforms, and collaboration tools.
Strong technical experience with data classification, labelling, and policy‑based enforcement across structured and unstructured data.
Hands‑on experience implementing and managing encryption technologies (data at rest and in transit), key management, and secure data handling controls.
Experience integrating information protection controls into cloud platforms, SaaS applications, and enterprise collaboration environments.
Experience operating security controls in large, complex, and regulated enterprise environments.
Proven ability to collaborate across engineering, digital, and operations teams to deliver practical and effective information protection outcomes.
Demonstrated experience in an agile work environment possessing qualities such as a collaborative mindset, adaptability to change, and a proactive problem-solving approach.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory requirements, and risk management practices relevant to pharmaceutical or life sciences organizations.
Professional certifications such as CDPSE, CIPT, CIPP/E, CISSP, CISM.
Prior leadership experience managing or mentoring information protection engineers or security engineering teams.
Strong understanding of data lifecycle management, including data creation, access, sharing, retention, and secure disposal.
Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate information protection risks and design decisions to senior stakeholders.
WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS
Travel as required by the business (less than 20% domestic and/or international)
Work Location Assignment: Must be able to work in assigned Pfizer office 2-3 days per week, or as needed by the business
Please apply by sending your CV in English.
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
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Equal Employment Opportunity
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Disability Inclusion
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