Principal Cloud Architect

About the role

The Cloud Platform Engineering team operates as a strategic enabler for the enterprise, delivering a secure, scalable, and fully automated cloud foundation that supports mission-critical workloads across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Leads cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimize Banner Health’s multi-cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and OCI.
• Helps lead the development of Banner’s long-term cloud strategy, ensuring scalability, security, resiliency, and cost-effectiveness across the organization’s cloud systems.
• Works closely with the Cloud Platform Engineering & Operations and Network Operations departments, Digital Engineering and support stakeholders across departments to lead cloud adoption and migration, enhance cloud maturity, improve performance, implement best practices, and drive cloud-based innovation.
• Serves as a subject-matter expert and trusted advisor, providing guidance and working closely with IT partners and business units to ensure successful solution delivery on cloud platforms.
• Works at the intersection of Digital Transformation and Cloud Modernization to ensure that Banner’s cloud capabilities align with business needs and scale to meet future growth.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent level of education and experience.
• At least 15 years of software engineering, digital engineering and application modernization experience, including a minimum of 5 years of experience designing and developing cloud and microservices at scale.
• Must also have demonstratable relevant experience optimizing Kubernetes deployed workloads on cloud platform and experience with AI development tools.
• Proven experience with platform operating models and product-driven digital engineering.
• Hands-on experience designing and scaling digital applications on cloud platforms, preferably AWS and Azure.
• Experience with large-scale cloud migrations and modernization initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering disciplines (i.e., Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, etc.).
• Professional level certifications on public cloud platforms (Google, AWS and Azure preferred).
• Experience in Healthcare Information Technology is strongly desired.
• Deep knowledge of at least one cloud provider between Google, AWS and Azure and working knowledge of other clouds.
• Experience with cloud cost optimization.
• Experience with specific tools and platforms: Coding / Scripting Languages: Java/J2EE, C#, Python, Ruby, Go; Software Development Frameworks: React, Angular, Spring/SpringBoot, .Net; Database: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL; CI/CD & Version Control: GitLab, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins; Artifactory/Container Registries: JFrog, Nexus, Cloudsmith, GitHub Packages; Deployment Manager Container Platforms: Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, GKE, RKE, Docker Hub, ECR/ACR; Observability: Dynatrace, Splunk, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Datadog, Grafana; Security Tools: WIZ, Palo Alto, Tenable, CyberArk, Snyk, Qualys; Work Management: ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence.

Skills

• Strategic and technical oversight in developing, managing, and optimizing multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, OCI).
• Leadership in cloud architecture and governance initiatives ensuring scalability and compliance.
• Designing, developing, and overseeing the implementation of service offerings for platform engineering.
• Providing thought leadership in cloud native technologies, DevOps, and platform engineering.
• Implementing and maintaining secure cloud connectivity solutions (AWS Direct Connect, Azure Express Route, Oracle Fastconnect or Google Cloud Interconnect).
• Aligning solutions with standards and best practices, working with cross-functional engineering and business teams.
• Collaborating with IT team to integrate cloud solutions with on-premises infrastructure that drives innovation.
• Maintaining comprehensive documentation, disaster recovery plans, and performing ongoing gap analysis to optimize cloud performance.
• Creating and maintaining cloud architecture diagrams.
• Developing and delivering proof of concepts.
• Contributing to developing the best internal practices and new, innovative, hands-on service offerings that are put into production.
• Designing and implementing automation tools to enable efficient cloud services deployment and meet business demands.
• Providing leadership and mentorship to cloud engineers, ensuring adherence to cloud best practices.

Benefits

Our organization supports a drug-free work environment. Banner Health is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted compensation range is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay Banner Health in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting. This range is based on possible base salaries and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location, along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure pay equity is achieved and maintained.

Pay

Estimated Pay Range: $75.22 - $125.36 / hour

Schedule

This is a remote position. In this role you would work Monday through Friday normal business hours and can be a remote position if you live in the following states only: AL, AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV & WY.