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UT Southwestern Medical Center · 1 month ago

Lead Cloud Architect

Dallas, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

UT Southwestern Medical Center is a world-renowned medical and research center located in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The Lead Cloud Architect will design and implement enterprise-level cloud solutions, ensuring scalability and security while providing technical leadership and mentorship across cross-functional teams.

Health CareHospitalMedical

No H1B

Responsibilities

Performs evaluations, recommendations and implementations from an on-premises and cloud network perspective in the context of a larger enterprise ecosystem. Contributes meaningfully to the overall IT portfolio strategy

Shares blueprints and translate cloud products, services, and capabilities, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to colleagues who represent a wide range of technical acumen

Continuously evaluates and optimizes cloud infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency

Works with stakeholders across the organization to evaluate cloud systems and identify appropriate solutions. Collaborates with executive leadership to demonstrate comprehensive planning details

Ensures back-end best practices such as backup, logging, monitoring, configuration, and redundancy are incorporated into standards

Stays current on Cloud-provider IAM (Identity and Management) concepts and workflows, authentication integrations, and platform administration

Provides specifications and detailed schematics for architecture including standards or reference architectures, in accordance with a vision developed from business requirements

May occasionally lead projects or project steps within a broader project or have accountability for ongoing activities or objectives and the work of small project teams

Provides specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, implementation techniques, and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity planning

Fosters relationship with key or strategic external vendors, identifying scenarios for partnership

Ensures adherence to quality standards and provides technical guidance to team members and contractors

Understands and promotes Software Development Life Cycle principles and the underlying technologies that support it

Provides an expert level of functional knowledge to the project and team leadership in a specialized field such as business, engineering, IT Governance, and knowledge management. Applicable functional areas include systems engineering, business process, quality assurance, organizational planning, configuration and data information systems, major enterprise-wide technology deployments, or strategic enterprise infrastructure redesign

Mentors and supports the work activities of lower-level cloud architects or support staff. Conducts training or retraining in architecture concepts, analysis, design, and frameworks to small audiences

Remains knowledgeable of changes in technology, industry practices, and state and federal regulatory requirements by attendance at training seminars, trade shows and related venues

Solves complex problems and takes a new perspective on existing solutions

Incorporates security best practices to protect cloud network infrastructure from cyber threats and unauthorized access

Performs other duties as assigned

Qualification

Cloud architecture designMulti-cloud expertiseInfrastructure automationCloud compliance standardsGoogle Cloud certificationMicrosoft Azure certificationAWS certificationTechnical leadershipMentorshipProblem-solvingTeam collaboration

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Education, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Business, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems, or related field

10 years of experience in an enterprise support role and relevant experience designing or supporting resources and services in cloud-based architecture models, to include at least five years experience enabling production workloads in Microsoft, Amazon or Google cloud(s)

Google Professional Cloud (GPC) architect or Google Associate Cloud Engineer or Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals or Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or AWS Certified Solutions Architect ‿ Professional or AWS Certified Solutions Architect ‿ Associate