# Director, Authentication and Directory Services **Company**: Pfizer **Location**: Thessaloniki, Chortiatis **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Category**: IT **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://pfizer.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PfizerCareers/job/Greece-Thessaloniki-Chortiatis/Director--Authentication-and-Directory-Services_4966286?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_2f96abc0-9db ## Description Pfizer's Identity Security and Access Management (ISAM) organization designs, implements, and operates a centralized, modern, and scalable identity security ecosystem that protects digital assets, improves end-user experiences, and supports global regulatory requirements. The Director, Authentication and Directory Services, provides global leadership, vision, and strategic direction for Pfizer's enterprise authentication and directory capabilities. **Role Responsibilities** - Strategy, Vision & Portfolio Ownership: Define and execute the global strategy and multi-year roadmap for Authentication and Directory Services. - People & Organizational Leadership: Lead and develop a globally distributed organization of senior managers, managers, engineers, product owners, and partner resources. - Service, Product & Financial Accountability: Own end-to-end service performance, demand, capacity, lifecycle, budget, vendor commitments, and value realization across the authentication and directory portfolio. - Architecture, Standards & Modernization: Provide executive and technical governance for enterprise architecture, engineering standards, and reusable patterns across Active Directory, Entra ID and cloud directories, federation, single sign-on, multi-factor and passwordless authentication, identity synchronization, Group Policy, DNS dependencies, and hybrid identity. - Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance: Ensure authentication and directory controls align with Pfizer policies, applicable regulatory requirements, and recognized security practices. - Operational Resilience & Incident Leadership: Ensure highly available global services with effective monitoring, disaster recovery, capacity management, service continuity, change governance, and 24x7 support. - Transformation & Delivery: Direct complex global programs such as directory modernization, domain controller upgrades, cloud migration of authentication services, passwordless adoption, and simplification or retirement of custom platforms. - Enterprise Partnership & Executive Communication: Partner with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, End User Computing, Application Development, Manufacturing, Business Integration, Compliance, Audit, and business stakeholders. - Vendor & Ecosystem Management: Set the strategy for technology partners and managed service providers, including Microsoft and Ping Identity. **Basic Qualifications** - Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, engineering, or a related discipline. - 8+ years of experience in identity and access management, cybersecurity, infrastructure, or enterprise technology, including substantial leadership responsibility for global authentication and/or directory services. - Demonstrated experience leading people managers and multidisciplinary engineering and operations teams in a large, complex enterprise environment. - Strong technical depth across enterprise directory and authentication technologies, including Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, LDAP/LDAPS, directory schema and replication, Group Policy, DNS, hybrid identity, SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, federation, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and passwordless authentication. - Experience owning strategy, architecture, engineering, operations, and reliability for business-critical identity services supporting more than 100k+ users and 4k+ global applications. - Proven ability to lead modernization programs, manage technology and service providers, prioritize investments, and deliver measurable improvements in resilience, security, user experience, and cost. - Experience directing major incident response, problem management, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery, and operational risk reduction for high-availability services. - Understanding of applicable security, privacy, and regulated-industry requirements, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), GxP, NIST-aligned controls, and global privacy obligations. - Ability to communicate complex technical, security, financial, and operational issues to executive and non-technical stakeholders and to influence decisions across organizational boundaries. - Willingness to remain technically engaged in critical architecture, risk, and incident decisions while leading primarily through managers and senior technical staff. - 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** - Master's degree in a relevant discipline. - Leadership experience in the pharmaceutical, life sciences, or another highly regulated global industry. - Deep experience with Microsoft AD/Entra, Ping Federate, Ping One, Keyfactor, and PKI platforms. - Relevant security, identity, cloud, architecture, or service-management certifications. - Experience modernizing legacy directory infrastructure and federation platforms. ## Skills ### Required - Microsoft Active Directory - Microsoft Entra ID - LDAP/LDAPS - Group Policy - DNS - hybrid identity - SAML - OAuth 2.0 - OpenID Connect - federation - single sign-on - multi-factor authentication - passwordless authentication ### Nice to have - Ping Federate - Ping One - Keyfactor - PKI platforms --- Source: [Apply at pfizer.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://pfizer.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PfizerCareers/job/Greece-Thessaloniki-Chortiatis/Director--Authentication-and-Directory-Services_4966286?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)