Head of Data & BI Platform Engineering in Surrey

Role Summary

15+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, data platform architecture, or enterprise analytics infrastructure, with a minimum of 5 years in a senior engineering leadership role. Demonstrated hands‑on experience administering and scaling enterprise data warehousing or lakehouse platforms at scale, including at least one of the following: Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, or Azure Synapse. Proven experience managing enterprise BI and visualization platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, or Spotfire), including governance, performance, and adoption programs. Experience with data integration and pipeline tooling (e.g., Alteryx, dbt, Informatica, Fivetran, or equivalent) in a large enterprise context. Proven track record of leading platform teams with an SLA‑driven, product‑minded operating model with documented outcomes in platform reliability, cost efficiency, and user adoption. Strong command of data catalog, metadata management, data lineage, and data quality frameworks in enterprise environments. Experience establishing platform governance in regulated industries, including data privacy controls, access management, and audit trail requirements. Demonstrated ability to lead through influence in a federated organizational model — driving adoption through value delivery and user experience, not mandate. Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate platform strategy and technical trade‑offs for both technical teams and executive stakeholders.

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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the biopharmaceutical, life sciences, or healthcare sector, with familiarity with GxP data requirements, HIPAA, and FDA data integrity expectations.
• Experience supporting AI and machine learning workflows as a data platform consumer understanding of feature engineering pipelines, training data requirements, and model data dependencies.
• Familiarity with semantic layer tools (e.g., dbt metrics layer, Looker LookML, AtScale) and governed metric management.
• Experience operating within or alongside a Center of Excellence or shared services model in a large, matrixed organization.
• Working knowledge of FinOps practices for cloud data platform cost governance.
• Experience with modern data stack architectures including data mesh, data lakehouse, and medallion architecture patterns.

Other Job Details

Last Day to Apply: 7/28/2026

Work Location Assignment: Hybrid

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $274,000.00 to $456,600.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 30.0% 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.

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. The annual base salary for this position in Tampa, FL ranges from $246,600.00 to $411,000.00. This role is posted in multiple locations. If you are applying for the role in a secondary job posting location where pay transparency regulations apply, your Talent Advisor will share the local pay information with you during the first interview. 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 (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.

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