Corporate Director Enterprise Cloud Architecture

Description
Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

Entity:
Corporate Services

Department:
Enterprise Technology Architecture and Strategy

Location:

Hybrid, 3535 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Summary:

• Corporate Director, Cloud Enterprise Architecture is a leadership role responsible for defining, governing, and advancing the organization's enterprise-wide cloud strategy and cloud architecture within a complex, highly regulated healthcare environment. This role serves as the enterprise authority for cloud strategy, cloud adoption principles, multi-cloud architecture governance, and cloud financial management, accountable for building and owning the organization's first unified cloud architecture capability across clinical, operational, research, and administrative domains.
• The Corporate Director defines and owns the organization's enterprise cloud strategy and governs the use of multiple cloud providers - including Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud - within a principled, risk-managed, and financially governed multi-cloud architecture model.
• This role leads the Cloud Enterprise Architecture team, provides guidance on cloud investment decisions and strategic cloud vendor relationships, and ensures cloud adoption is strategically coherent, financially accountable, architecturally sound, and compliant with HIPAA and applicable regulatory and audit requirements. In close partnership with the AI, Data, Cybersecurity, Application, and Infrastructure architecture leaders, and in close alignment with Finance, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and Risk Management, the Corporate Director balances cloud adoption velocity with enterprise risk, cost governance, and organizational resilience, ensuring sustainable and accountable cloud adoption at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Defines and owns the organization's first enterprise-wide Cloud Strategy, establishing a coherent, governed multi-cloud architecture model that aligns cloud adoption with organizational strategic priorities across clinical, research, and operations.
• Builds, leads, and develops the Cloud Enterprise Architecture team, including direct reports Principal Enterprise, Domain and Solution architects
• sets performance expectations, develops talent, and ensures organizational maturity and succession readiness.
• Develops and executes a multi-year Enterprise Cloud Architecture and Strategy roadmap aligned to investment planning, organizational capabilities, and value realization targets.
• Establishes enterprise cloud reference architectures, design standards, and adoption guardrails for Azure as the primary enterprise cloud platform, and governs the use of AWS and Google Cloud under defined architectural and compliance boundaries.
• Owns enterprise cloud governance, including cloud architecture review processes, cloud standards enforcement, policy frameworks, and architectural decision records applicable across all organizational domains and entities.
• Owns Cloud Financial Management (Fin Ops) strategy and governance, including enterprise cloud cost transparency, cost optimization frameworks, chargeback and showback models, budget governance, and cloud financial accountability reporting to senior leadership and Finance.
• Ensures cloud architecture and cloud adoption comply with HIPAA, healthcare data privacy requirements, applicable regulatory and accreditation standards, and audit obligations
• partners with Information Security, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, and Risk Management to establish and maintain cloud security and compliance architecture controls.
• Partner with Security leaders to establish enterprise cloud security architecture standards, including identity and…