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The Lead Cloud Architect participates in the design of cloud services and platforms that enable Exact Sciences laboratory processes and analytics. The Lead Cloud Architect supports the Cloud Engineering team by gathering requirements and collaborating on design solutions for cloud services and platforms. At times, conflicts will arise between long-term and short-term goals and compromises will need to be structured. Lead Cloud Architect will collect background information to factor into compromise options for discussion and be responsible for helping the Cloud Engineering team retain institutional memory of the details of those decisions. The Lead Cloud Architect supports the Enterprise Architecture team by gathering requirements and collaborating on design solutions to keep alignment with key strategic principles of company architecture. This role is committed to the support and development of cloud solution roadmaps and plans, assuring that cloud services and platforms meet technical, security and compliance requirements while aligning with long-term architectural and strategic goals
Job Responsibility:
Planning, designing and documenting highly available, scalable resilient cloud services and platforms with guidance from senior members of the team
Collaborate on cost optimization and right sizing efforts for cloud services and platforms
Document governance standards for cloud infrastructure
Collaborate on cloud infrastructure and platform operability design to improve reliability
Develop consensus by articulating design principles and evangelizing DevOps practices and continuous integration
Align solutions for security and access with the Information Security team
Promote observability through standards for collecting metrics and logs
Engage with interdisciplinary architects and engineering leads on architectural design and review sessions
Implement an effective, value driven processes to deliver innovative solutions that meet business requirements
Support project teams through detailed system analysis, requirements gathering, solution design and project execution for cloud services and platforms
Author and update high-quality documentation of all relevant specifications, systems and procedures
Research and select cloud services for improving service delivery and expanding capabilities
Lead engineering efforts to align technologies and capabilities to prepare for future demand and business opportunities
Mentor engineering team members
Other duties as assigned
Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork
Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures
Regular and reliable attendance
Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 90% of a typical working day
Ability and means to travel between Madison locations
Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree in computer sciences or related field
or Associates Degree and 2 years of relevant experience
or high school degree/general education diploma and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree
3+ years of experience working within an architecture practice and developing architecture artifacts
or 5+ years of advanced systems engineering and a proven track record of success designing and operating highly available, scalable and recoverable systems
8+ years of experience working with any combination of the following
observability (metrics and logs collection and analysis), service level objectives (SLO), configuration management, infrastructure as code and continuous integration
8+ years of experience working with software engineering and/or operations teams
8+ years of experience debugging distributed system errors and performance problems
Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation
Nice to have:
Experience with AWS Cloud Solutions architecture
Experience with infrastructure software engineering and continuous integration
Experience implementing and operating container orchestration platforms
Experience in healthcare industry, such as pharma or labs
What we offer:
paid time off (including days for vacation, holidays, volunteering, and personal time)
paid leave for parents and caregivers
a retirement savings plan
wellness support
health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage