IQVIA · 5 hours ago
Principal Cloud Architect – DevIQ (Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$118K/yr - $329K/yr
10+ years expIQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. The Principal Cloud Architect will play a critical role in shaping IQVIA’s cloud and platform architecture strategy across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, ensuring the delivery of APIs, shared services, and AI workloads. This role requires deep technical expertise and the ability to influence across a large, federated organization.
AnalyticsHealth CareLife Science
Responsibilities
Define, author, and maintain cloud and platform architecture standards, patterns, and best practices for cloud-native and hybrid workloads across ATS
Own and evolve reference architectures, paved roads, and golden paths aligned to DevIQ capabilities (APIs, shared services, infrastructure services, AI/LLM platforms, and agentic workflows)
Ensure architectural guidance balances developer autonomy, security, compliance, reliability, and cost efficiency
Serve as a senior architectural leader for DevIQ, shaping how cloud services, shared infrastructure, and platform capabilities are designed and exposed to developers
Partner closely with platform engineering teams to ensure DevIQ delivers a high-quality, self-service developer experience through automation and opinionated defaults
Influence the roadmap for internal developer portal integrations, templates, and reusable platform components
Define and evolve IQVIA’s multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategy within ATS, ensuring alignment with business priorities, regulatory requirements, and platform objectives
Establish and document the end-to-end lifecycle of cloud governance, including architectural guardrails, policy enforcement, testing, and compliance validation
Guide teams in adopting cloud services safely, consistently, and efficiently
Lead the Cloud Architecture Guild, fostering communities of practice across ATS and federated engineering teams
Provide architectural leadership during design reviews, helping teams align solutions with platform standards while meeting delivery objectives
Act as a trusted advisor to engineering, security, DevOps, data, and AI platform teams
Stay current with trends in cloud services, platform engineering, and AI infrastructure, evaluating new capabilities for enterprise adoption
Provide clear recommendations on when and how to adopt emerging services, including managed platforms, serverless, containers, and AI/ML infrastructure
Drive architectural direction through clear standards, reference implementations, and pragmatic guidance
Ensure platform and cloud architectures embed security-by-design, including IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, and data protection
Promote best practices for resilience, scalability, cost optimization, and observability as first-class architectural concerns
Partner with security and SRE teams to align architectural standards with operational realities
Provide technical mentorship to architects and senior engineers across ATS
Elevate platform and cloud architectural maturity through coaching, documentation, and exemplar implementations
Lead by influence, building trust and driving adoption through clarity and demonstrated value
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture, including large-scale distributed systems
Proven experience as a Cloud Architect in enterprise environments
Deep hands-on experience with AWS and Azure, including multi-account, enterprise-scale deployments
Strong expertise in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK, or similar)
Demonstrated experience authoring architecture standards, reference architectures, and best-practice guidance
Broad knowledge of cloud services across compute, networking, IAM, storage, data, observability, and configuration management
Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java)
Strong understanding of DevOps and CI/CD practices
Experience designing or supporting AI/ML and LLM-based workloads in the cloud
Preferred
Experience with internal developer platforms
Familiarity with platform engineering concepts (paved roads, golden paths, product-oriented platforms)
Experience operating in regulated or data-sensitive environments
Benefits
Incentive plans
Bonuses
Health and welfare and/or other benefits
Company
IQVIA
IQVIA provides analytics, compliance, and management solutions to the life sciences industry.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.5B2025-06-02Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2023-11-14Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2023-05-18Post Ipo Debt· $1B
Leadership Team
Chris Colapietro
Vice President, Customer Engagement
Jonathan Morris
VP & GM US Healthcare
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