Senior Manager, Data Security & Access Lead

Role Summary

Pfizer Global Supply (PGS) is transforming how data powers its end-to-end supply network.

The Senior Manager, Data Security Lead will lead the design and evolution of data security frameworks across Pfizer Global Supply data platforms and data products. The role will establish a consistent, scalable approach for protecting structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data residing in enterprise data lakes, data warehouses, cloud platforms, and other authorized data sources. The incumbent will define how access is designed, governed, approved, implemented, and monitored, including role-based and attribute-based access, row-level security, column-level security and masking, sensitive-data classification, entitlement models, policy-driven access, and governed self-service access. The role will define architecture and integration patterns that separate business policy and entitlement management from the physical datasets and platforms where data resides, enabling consistent enforcement across Snowflake and other enterprise data sources. This global role partners with PGS Governance, Enterprise Cybersecurity, Privacy, Digital platform teams, data owners, data stewards, and solution teams.

Role Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the PGS data security architecture, principles, standards, reference patterns, and target-state roadmap across data lakes, data warehouses, cloud platforms, data products, semantic layers, knowledge platforms, and artificial intelligence environments.

• Define scalable role-based access control, attribute-based access control, least-privilege, segregation-of-duties, policy-based access, and entitlement models that can be applied consistently across Snowflake and heterogeneous enterprise data platforms.

• Establish design patterns and decision criteria for row-level security, column-level security, static and dynamic masking, tokenization, de-identification, object permissions, tag-based controls, secure views, and governed data sharing.

• Design integration patterns connecting centralized policy, identity, catalog, and entitlement-management capabilities with underlying datasets and platforms, while minimizing duplicated and platform-specific security roles.

• Lead the design of data classification, security metadata, policy domains, access-governance workflows, certification controls, approval processes, periodic reviews, recertification, exceptions, and revocation within Collibra.

• Provide security architecture leadership for Snowflake, including role hierarchies, row access policies, masking policies, tags, secure views, object permissions, and secure data sharing, in partnership with Digital and platform engineering teams responsible for implementation and operations.

• Embed security-by-design requirements into dataset onboarding, data-product delivery, analytics, data science, generative artificial intelligence, semantic models, vector stores, knowledge graphs, and agent-based capabilities.

• Translate enterprise security, privacy, data governance, records-management, and regulatory requirements into practical standards and reusable controls; lead cross-functional design reviews, monitor conformance, support audit readiness, manage exceptions, and communicate risk and outcomes to senior stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications

• Applicant must have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, data engineering, engineering, or a related field with at least 6 years of experience in enterprise data security, information security architecture, data architecture, data governance, cloud data platforms, or a related discipline; OR a master’s degree with at least 5 years of experience, OR a PhD with at least 1 year of experience
• Demonstrated leadership of complex cross-functional initiatives and experience designing security approaches for enterprise data lakes, data warehouses, and modern cloud data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of role-based access control, attribute-based access control, entitlement design, least-privilege access, segregation of duties, row-level security, column-level security, dynamic data masking, data classification, and policy enforcement.
• Experience designing approaches that separate policy and entitlement administration from the physical location of underlying datasets.
• Experience with Snowflake or a comparable modern cloud data platform and the ability to translate security, privacy, governance, and regulatory requirements into scalable architecture patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to influence business, governance, cybersecurity, architecture, privacy, and engineering stakeholders and communicate complex decisions clearly to senior leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a relevant discipline.
• Experience with Collibra Data Intelligence Platform, including classification, policies, workflows, stewardship, metadata, lineage, certification, and access governance.
• Experience integrating Collibra security or governance models with Snowflake or other enterprise data platforms.
• Experience with Snowflake role hierarchy, row access policies, masking policies, tags, secure views, object permissions, and secure data sharing.
• Experience designing security controls across heterogeneous data environments and within a federated data-delivery model.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing, supply chain, quality, GxP, privacy, records-management, or other regulated-data environments.
• Experience securing data science, machine learning, generative artificial intelligence, knowledge graph, semantic layer, vector retrieval, or agent-based solutions.
• Relevant certification in cloud security, information security, data management, privacy, or enterprise architecture.

Physical /Mental Requirements

• Ability to perform complex analysis and exercise sound judgment across interdependent business, regulatory, data, identity, and technology requirements.
• Ability to sustain focused review of detailed architecture, policy, control, and audit information and make risk-based decisions where requirements may be incomplete or competing.

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

This is a global role requiring collaboration across time zones. Periodic domestic and international travel may be required based on business need. Occasional participation outside standard local working hours may be necessary to support global workshops, architecture reviews, risk decisions, or critical delivery activities.

OTHER INFORMATION

Last Date to Apply: October 28, 2026

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $124,400.00 to $207,400.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 17.5% 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.

This role is posted in multiple locations. If you are applying for the role in an 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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