Senior Cloud Architect

Join an inclusive collaborative Business Technology team as a Principal Cloud Architect in AbbVie BTS. In this role you will serve as a technical visionary shaping enterprise cloud strategy and driving innovation in a global highly regulated environment. Youll lead the design and implementation of cloud-native architecturesprimarily on AWSwhile ensuring alignment with business objectives. Partnering with multidisciplinary teams and specialized architects in Security Data Network Application and UX you will integrate cloud solutions across Enterprise Architecture to enhance product delivery and accelerate adoption of modern platforms. 

In this role youll be responsible for: 

• Define drive and continually refine the enterprise cloud architecture strategy ensuring alignment with organizational vision business objectives and compliance standards (i.e. GxP). 

• Lead the architecture design and hands-on implementation of secure resilient and scalable AWS-centered solutions leveraging strategic use of services such as EC2 S3 ECS EKS Lambda Aurora DynamoDB RDS and EventBridge. 

• Develop evaluate and endorse architectural diagrams and comprehensive documentation for cloud solutions ensuring alignment with best practices and collaboration across technical and business stakeholders. 

• Oversee design and automation of cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation AWS CDK Terraform Pulumi Ansible) fostering reliable repeatable cloud deployments at scale. 

• Lead the strategic architecture for multicloud and hybrid data platformsprimarily AWS (Glue Athena Redshift) and Azure Data Lakedefining standards governance and engineering patterns for regulated analytics pipelines and enterprise data lakes leveraging technologies such as Spark Databricks Lakehouse and cloudnative services. 

• Drive DevOps & automation excellence: design implement and govern robust CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions CircleCI Azure DevOps AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild) ensuring efficient application delivery and automated infrastructure management. 

• Champion the AWS Well-Architected Framework by embedding its pillars (operational excellence security reliability performance efficiency cost optimization) into enterprise practice and conducting regular reviews for continuous improvement. 

• Lead the strategic architecture for containerized (EKS ECS Fargate) and serverless (Lambda Step Functions EventBridge) platforms setting direction standards and decision frameworks that enable scalable and costefficient microservices batch and eventdriven systems. 

• Ensure robust security and compliance within all cloud implementations including access controls (IAM) data encryption management of validated environments and close collaboration with compliance and audit teams. 

• Architect solutions for modernization and migration of on-premises applications data and infrastructure to scalable secure and cost-effective cloud-native solutions leveraging automation best practices and compliance standards throughout the process. 

• Set the strategic direction for cloud guardrailsspanning landing zones account and network patterns IAM boundaries encryption logging tagging and policyascodeto ensure enterprisealigned risk security and compliance across AWS and Azure. 

• Serve as a technical authority and mentorinfluencing stakeholders guiding engineers and reviewing designs to raise the overall architecture bar. 

• Architect observability solutions with best practices from the industry 

• Use AI/MCP-enabled capabilities to quickly validate cloud designs enable guided best-practice workflows with auditability and enhance infrastructure management through ergonomic automated actions. 

• Oversee cloud cost management by monitoring and optimizing cloud service expenses and implementing tagging and financial governance across multi-cloud environments. 

• Guide operational leadership through incident and problem management continuous infrastructure reliability improvement and engagement with application teams on innovative proof-of-concept pilots (AI and cloud advancements). 

• Present and communicate cloud architecture strategies roadmaps and solutions effectively to both senior leaders and peer architects fostering organization-wide architectural alignment. 

• Build and maintain strategic relationships with affiliates partners vendors and the broader industry to advance technology initiatives in alignment with corporate values. 

Qualifications :

Required:

• Bachelors Degree with 9 years experience; Masters Degree with 8 years experience; PhD with 4 years experience.

• AWS Core: EC2 VPC S3 ECS EKS RDS Lambda DynamoDB EventBridge CloudWatch 

• Multi-cloud & Data: Azure Azure Data Lake Databricks Athena Redshift 

• IaC: CloudFormation AWS CDK Terraform Ansible 

• DevOps/Automation: Jenkins GitHub Azure DevOps AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild Git PowerShell Python Bash 

• Security & Compliance: IAM encryption standards compliance with GxP 21 CFR Part 11 HIPAA GDPR 

• Networking: VPC subnetting VPN Direct Connect routing load balancing 

• Monitoring: AWS CloudWatch Datadog New Relic 

• Communication & Leadership: Excellent verbal/written communication to technical and non-technical audiences; ability to foster cross-functional collaboration and document/present technical solutions 

Preferred:

• Cloud Architecture  9 years of experience in designing and supporting multi-cloud infrastructures focusing primarily on AWS (required) and Google Cloud (GCP) & Azure (optional) (Candidates with a masters degree must have 8 years PhD must have 5 years). Industry experience is a plus. 

• AWS Environment  Demonstrated expertise in deploying managing and optimizing large-scale AWS environments for performance scalability and resilience while applying AWS Well-Architected Framework principles to ensure security reliability cost efficiency and operational excellence. 

• CI/CD Pipelines  Proven track record in architecting and managing robust CI/CD pipelines using AWS technologies to drive software development efficiency and speed.  

• Certifications  Holds AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certifications. Security credentials like CISSP or CCSP are advantageous.  

• AWS Services Expertise  Strong knowledge of AWS core services (EC2 VPC S3 RDS) combined with advanced skills in AWS Lambda DynamoDB ECS EKS and Fargate for developing scalable serverless and containerized applications.  

• Infrastructure as Code & Automation  Advanced use of CloudFormation and Terraform for IaC; proficient with automation tools such as Jenkins Ansible Git and scripting with Python Bash and PowerShell to drive strategic cloud optimization. 

• Service Delivery  Demonstrate proficiency in using agile tools such as Jira to manage and deliver product-based cloud solution releases efficiently. 

• Security & Compliance  In-depth knowledge of cloud networking IAM security protocols and compliance standards to deliver secure and efficient cloud environments.  

• Monitoring & Governance  Experience with AWS management and governance tools alongside monitoring solutions like AWS CloudWatch and other third-party options enhanced by utilizing security tools like Wizio.  

• High Availability & Resilience  Expertise in architecting high availability and disaster recovery solutions on AWS ensuring business continuity and operational resilience.  

• Communication & Leadership  Ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences from business to technical stakeholders fostering collaboration and alignment.  

• Innovation  Strong command of integrating emerging AWS technologies to stay at the forefront of cloud innovation and maintain a competitive advantage. 

Additional Information :

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: 

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this postingbased on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location and we may ultimately paymore or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. 

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation holidays sick) medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. 

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commissionincentive benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole and absolute discretion unless and untilpaid and may be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion consistent with applicable law. 

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity driving innovation transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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