Lead Cloud Architect

SUMMARY

The Lead Cloud Architect will design and implement enterprise-level cloud solutions that align with UT Southwestern’s strategic objectives, ensuring scalability, security, and cost efficiency. This role collaborates with cross-functional teams to integrate cloud technologies, provides technical leadership and mentorship, and drives innovation through multi-cloud and AI adoption. The position requires deep expertise in cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, and compliance standards, with a proven ability to optimize complex environments in an academic medical center setting.

This position does not support H1B visa sponsorship. Incumbent must reside in the Dallas / Ft. Worth Metroplex.

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Education, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Business, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems, or related field.

10 years of experience in an enterprise support role and relevant experience designing or supporting resources and services in cloud-based architecture models, to include at least five years experience enabling production workloads in Microsoft, Amazon or Google cloud(s).

• Google Professional Cloud (GPC) architect
• Google Associate Cloud Engineer
• Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Fundamentals
• Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Administrator Associate
• Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect ‿ Professional
  
  AWS Certified Solutions Architect ‿ Associate

• Performs evaluations, recommendations and implementations from an on-premises and cloud network perspective in the context of a larger enterprise ecosystem. Contributes meaningfully to the overall IT portfolio strategy.
• Shares blueprints and translate cloud products, services, and capabilities, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to colleagues who represent a wide range of technical acumen.
• Continuously evaluates and optimizes cloud infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Works with stakeholders across the organization to evaluate cloud systems and identify appropriate solutions. Collaborates with executive leadership to demonstrate comprehensive planning details.
• Ensures back-end best practices such as backup, logging, monitoring, configuration, and redundancy be incorporated into standards.
• Stays current on Cloud-provider IAM (Identity and Management) concepts and workflows, authentication integrations, and platform administration.
• Provides specifications and detailed schematics for architecture including standards or reference architectures, in accordance with a vision developed from business requirements.
• May occasionally lead projects or project steps within a broader project or have accountability for ongoing activities or objectives and the work of small project teams.
• Provides specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, implementation techniques, and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity planning.
• Fosters relationship with key or strategic external vendors, identifying scenarios for partnership.
• Ensures adherence to quality standards and provides technical guidance to team members and contractors.
• Understands and promotes Software Development Life Cycle principles and the underlying technologies that support it.
• Provides an expert level of functional knowledge to the project and team leadership in a specialized field such as business, engineering, IT Governance, and knowledge management. Applicable functional areas include systems engineering, business process, quality assurance, organizational planning, configuration and data information…