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Ascension · 11 hours ago

Sr. Cloud Strategist / Architect

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$147K/yr - $205K/yr

7+ years exp

Ascension is a healthcare organization committed to serving others and providing compassionate care. They are seeking a Sr. Cloud Strategist/Architect to strategize, design, and implement cloud technology solutions that align with enterprise cloud strategy and architecture guidelines, while mentoring Cloud Architects and ensuring a secure and cost-effective cloud environment.

CharityHealth CareHospitalNon Profit

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Proficient in producing architectures and designs that involve the creation of new design patterns for all levels of technological and business function complexity in the cloud

Provides end to end architecture for a cloud implementation project to ensure the detailed design and development remains consistent with the overall enterprise architecture

Mentors and advises other cloud architects on their designs and implementations

Develops and applies criteria for placement of solutions and applications in the standard cloud platforms

Supports the planning and managing cloud migrations of on-premises systems and applications to the cloud

Leads and advises on cloud strategy initiated quality efforts such as scalability, maintainability; security; extensibility; etc.; ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations to bring successful conclusion and implementation

Identifies issues between the architecture and vendor solution implementation. Identifies solutions and formulate implementation and migration strategies

Provides expertise in cloud transformation, technical knowledge, methodology and framework, data integration and data flows, Enterprise Architecture, and software development, and Infrastructure as Code

Proactively identifies opportunities for optimizing cloud costs and works with the different teams to implement changes to optimize and reduce costs

Stay current with cloud technologies and trends by proactively researching and staying informed about new cloud developments, and determining how they can be used to benefit the organization

Supports resolution of escalated problems; helps identify root causes; identifies customer needs and determines the appropriate approach to ensure resolution

Communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort to various levels of technical and business leadership

Defines strategies for various cloud components such as networking, compute, presentation layer and security required to support relevant technical environments

Develops and leads orientation and planning review sessions with the other Information Technology areas for alignment and adoption

Works collaboratively with internal IT teams as well as business and vendor partners to evolve and implement cloud standards

Qualification

Cloud architectureGoogle GCPMicrosoft AzureOracle OCICloud migrationData integrationInfrastructure as CodeCommunication skillsLeadership experienceCritical thinking

Required

7 - 10 years of experience

5 years of architect, leadership or management experience

In depth knowledge of two or more public cloud platforms such as Google GCP, Microsoft Azure and/or Oracle OCI required

Strong communication and presentation skills required

High School diploma equivalency with 5 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 2 of those years being in leadership/management OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree with 3 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 2 of those years being in leadership/management

Preferred

Healthcare provider industry experience is preferred

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Various health insurance options & wellness plans

Retirement benefits including employer match plans

Long-term & short-term disability

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave & adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Ways to give back to your community

Company

Ascension

Glassdoor3.4

Answering God's call to bring health, healing and hope to all.

Founded in 1999

St Louis, Missouri, USA

10001+ employees

https://healthcare.ascension.org

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