# Tooling Evolution Lead **Company**: Pfizer **Location**: Massachusetts - Andover **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $162,900.00 to $271,500.00 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://pfizer.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PfizerCareers/job/United-States---Massachusetts---Andover/Tooling-Evolution-Lead-Engineer_4965939-2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/tooling-evolution-lead-83975c5d-fe2/ ## Description Engineering Activation & Tooling is responsible for the tools, access, and onboarding experience that let engineers across Pfizer's eight platforms start delivering from Day One , and for making sure the estate of tools they rely on keeps pace with a wave of new developer and AI capabilities. We are seeking an experienced Tooling Evolution Lead (individual contributor, principal-level) who will own the evaluation, industrialisation, and lifecycle of engineering and AI developer tools across the organisation. In this role, you will run the governed intake process new tools and proofs-of-concept go through, score them against a shared evidence framework, and decide , on evidence rather than instinct , what earns a fast, contained pilot, what graduates to the supported core estate, and what gets retired once usage data says it is no longer earning its place. You will bridge the gap between a constant, fast-moving wave of new developer and AI tooling and a stable, trusted core estate, partnering with two community-of-practice Guilds , Engineering & AI, and Product & Delivery , who scout tools in and carry adoption out, and with Tooling Operations, whose usage and cost telemetry is the evidence base your retirement and scale-up decisions run on. This role carries significant strategic scope: your evaluation output is what the self-service onboarding portal shows to every engineer and PM across all eight platforms, and your evidence framework is what turns tool selection from a political decision into a defensible one. **Responsibilities** - You will own and run the governed tool-intake and evaluation lifecycle end-to-end, from a proposal reaching you through to a scored, evidence-based decision , available, pilot, declining, or rejected. - You will define and evolve the evaluation framework itself, keeping its criteria current as new tool categories emerge. - You will build and run the industrialisation pathway that takes a successful pilot from unofficial, contained use to a supported, published part of the core estate. - You will maintain a live, portfolio-level view of every tool in flight across the estate. - You will partner with the Engineering & AI Guild and the Product & Delivery Guild, who scout tools in and carry adoption messaging back out to their communities. - You will partner with Tooling Operations to translate usage, cost, and license telemetry into evidence-led retirement and rationalization decisions. - You will own the adoption and value-realization story for tools that clear evaluation. - You will act as the technical and governance authority other teams build against. **Basic Qualifications** - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, platform/developer-tooling product management, or a closely related technical field. - Demonstrated experience evaluating, selecting, or governing engineering tools or SaaS platforms at an enterprise level. - Practical, hands-on experience evaluating or rolling out AI-assisted development tools within the last 12–18 months. - Enough technical fluency across CI/CD, IDEs, SaaS integration patterns, and cloud-native architectures to hold a credible evaluation conversation with engineers and vendors. - Experience translating enterprise governance, security, or compliance requirements into a process engineers will actually follow. - Proven ability to influence and align stakeholders across a large, matrixed organisation. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. **Preferred Qualifications** - Prior experience in a large, regulated enterprise environment. - Experience running a portfolio-management or tool-rationalisation process. - Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar emerging AI-tooling integration standards. - Experience partnering with community-of-practice groups, guilds, or developer-relations functions. - Experience designing or applying a multi-dimension evaluation or scoring framework for technology or vendor decisions. - Familiarity with SaaS license administration, chargeback/showback models, or consumption-based cost telemetry. - Track record of taking a proof-of-concept through to a fully industrialised, enterprise-supported capability. **Benefits** - Comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. - 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. - Health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Computer Science - Engineering - Software Engineering - Platform/Developer-Tooling Product Management - AI-assisted development tools - CI/CD - IDEs - SaaS integration patterns - Cloud-native architectures ### Nice to have - Model Context Protocol (MCP) - SaaS license administration - chargeback/showback models - consumption-based cost telemetry --- Source: [Apply at pfizer.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://pfizer.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PfizerCareers/job/United-States---Massachusetts---Andover/Tooling-Evolution-Lead-Engineer_4965939-2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)