Manager, Email Security Engineering

ROLE SUMMARY

Our Global Cyber Defense team is responsible for safeguarding Pfizer’s digital assets and infrastructure through proactive threat detection, response, and risk mitigation across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

The Manager, Email Security Engineering is responsible for leading and advancing enterprise-wide protections across email, collaboration, and messaging platforms—critical threat surfaces within the Cyber Defense organization. Email remains a primary vector for phishing, business email compromise, malware delivery, and account takeover in the pharmaceutical industry.

This role will lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of email security capabilities across our global enterprise. The role is critical to protecting research, clinical, manufacturing, and corporate environments by delivering resilient, scalable, and compliant controls that prevent, detect, and respond to email-borne threats.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead Email Security Engineering initiatives across enterprise email, collaboration, and messaging platforms, including secure email gateways, cloud email security, anti-phishing, anti-malware, and domain protection capabilities.
• Define and execute the email security strategy and roadmap in alignment with the evolving threat landscape, business priorities, and regulatory requirements.
• Own the engineering and lifecycle management of email security technologies, including deployment, configuration, policy tuning, automation, integration, performance, and continuous optimization.
• Strengthen defenses against phishing, business email compromise, malicious attachments and links, spoofing, impersonation, and account takeover through layered preventive and detective controls.
• Integrate email and messaging telemetry with security information and event management, security orchestration, automation and response, identity, threat intelligence, and incident response workflows.
• Partner with Cyber Defense, Identity, Messaging, Collaboration, Legal, Compliance, and IT teams to reduce risk and coordinate response to email-related threats and incidents.
• Establish and enforce email security standards aligned with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, corporate policies, and compliance expectations.
• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team, driving accountability, technical excellence, global service reliability, and measurable security outcomes.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of cybersecurity experience, including demonstrated depth in email, messaging, collaboration, or cloud security engineering.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise email security technologies and controls, such as Microsoft 365 or Exchange Online Protection, secure email gateways, anti-phishing and anti-malware solutions, URL and attachment analysis, and email authentication standards including SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.
• Experience designing, operating, and scaling email security controls in large, complex, and highly regulated global environments.
• Proven ability to translate technical risk, threat trends, and control effectiveness into clear business impact for senior stakeholders.
• 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

• Experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences industry.
• Experience protecting high-risk users from targeted phishing, impersonation, business email compromise, and account takeover.
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or similar.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.

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  

We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Let’s start the conversation!  

Equal Employment Opportunity 

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer, Pfizer is committed to celebrating this, in all its forms – allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees.

Disability Inclusion

Our mission is unleashing the power of all our people and we are proud to be a disability inclusive employer, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all candidates. We encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments to support your application and future career. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!

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