Principal Cloud Architect
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Job Summary
Global Technology Organization Architecture and Standards: Within IQVIAs Global Technology and Operations function the Architecture & Standards organizations mission is to enhance efficiency speed quality interoperability and alignment of IQVIAs technology by establishing the IQVIA way. Our vision is to foster a developer-first culture that promotes collaboration across siloed software development and other technology teams.
Technical Architecture Team: The Technical Domain Architecture team consists of hands-on engineers with expertise in various technical domains. They define and maintain IQVIA architecture standards and reference architectures build reference implementations and provide guidance to engineering teams during the technical design committee addition technical architects will lead agile guilds for their domain communities of practice that share technical knowledge across IQVIAs federated engineering teams.
The Positions Overview/Elevator Pitch: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Cloud Architect to join our Technical Domain Architecture team within the Architecture and Standards Group of our Global Technology Organization. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in cloud architecture strong leadership skills a proven track record of designing and implementing robust cloud solutions and a thorough understanding of software architecture principles. As the principal cloud architect you will play a pivotal role in shaping our cloud strategy (e.g. multi/hybrid-cloud) guiding the development of our internal developer portal and ensuring seamless integration of cloud infrastructure.
Essential Functions:
- Author Standards and Best Practices: Author and maintain standards and best practices documents for cloud-native applications and services to ensure consistency security and efficiency across IQVIA.
- Collaboration: Lead the Cloud Guild and collaborate with cross-functional teams including software and data engineers DevOps and security experts.
- Innovation: Serve as the cloud services thought leader recommending the appropriate services and solutions to improve our system designs. Stay abreast of the latest advancements in cloud services.
- Strategic Planning: Develop and maintain the Cloud adoption strategy related to multi and hybrid cloud deployments ensuring alignment with overall business goals and technology strategy. Incorporate best practices into the organizations cloud strategy.
- Developer Productivity and Experience: Contribute to the design of the Internal Developer Portal (DevIQ) related to the use of cloud services. Design reference architectures and develop reference implementations.
- Cloud Governance: Establish and document the full lifecycle of cloud governance policies standards best practices and testing techniques.
- Vendor and Tool Evaluation: Evaluate cloud services and vendors to balance functionality cost developer experience performance and observability.
- Security: Implement robust security measures to protect cloud infrastructure from threats and vulnerabilities.
- Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and mentors
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in software development and architecture.
- Proven experience as a cloud architect with a strong portfolio of successful cloud projects.
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
- Proficiency in cloud infrastructure as code tools (e.g. Terraform Pulumi AWS CDK)
- Proven experience in authoring technical standards and best practices documentation for cloud-native applications and services
- Extensive knowledge of cloud services supporting compute (serverless container orchestrators) storage search caches monitoring IAM configuration/parameter storage etc.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python JavaScript or Java.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with AI/ML workloads in the cloud
Skills:
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Commitment to ensuring security and compliance in cloud solutions.
Additional Attributes:
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
- Strong commitment to quality and continuous improvement.
- Passion for staying current with industry trends and emerging technologies.
IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at
IQVIA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law. potential base pay range for this role when annualized is $118100.00 - $328800.00. The actual base pay offered may vary based on a number of factors including job-related qualifications such as knowledge skills education and experience; location; and/or schedule (full or part-time). Dependent on the position offered incentive plans bonuses and/or other forms of compensation may be offered in addition to a range of health and welfare and/or other benefits.
Required Experience:
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Key Skills
- Kubernetes
- S3
- Google Cloud Platform
- Cassandra
- System Architecture
- Redshift
- AWS
- Cloud Architecture
- NoSQL
- UML
- Kafka
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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