Lead Cloud Architect - Lab Systems

Lead Cloud Architect - Lab Systems at Exact Sciences summary :

The Lead Cloud Architect designs and oversees scalable, resilient cloud services and platforms to support business processes at Exact Sciences. This role collaborates closely with engineering, enterprise architecture, and security teams to align cloud solutions with strategic goals and operational standards. Additionally, the Lead Cloud Architect mentors team members, documents system specifications, and drives continuous integration and DevOps best practices within a healthcare-focused environment.

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Position Overview

The Lead Cloud Architect participates in the design of cloud services and platforms that enable Exact Sciences business processes and functions.

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 multi-region cloud roadmaps and plans, assuring that cloud services and platforms meet business and technical requirements while aligning with long-term architectural and strategic goals.

Essential Duties

Include but are not limited to the following :

• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

LI-JL2

Salary Range :

$121,000.00 - $206,000.00

The annual base salary shown is for this position located in US - WI - Madison on a full-time basis. In addition, this position is bonus eligible.

Exact Sciences is proud to offer an employee experience that includes paid time off (including days for vacation, holidays, volunteering, and personal time), paid leave for parents and caregivers, a retirement savings plan, wellness support, and health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage. Learn more about our benefits

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Keywords :

cloud architecture, AWS, infrastructure as code, DevOps, continuous integration, scalable cloud platforms, healthcare IT, system design, cloud security, observability