Chief Cloud Architect

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Job Description

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company founded in 1987. Together we deliver life-saving therapies to patients in need. With the commitment and drive you bring to the workplace every day, you will be part of a team that is changing the world and helping millions of people live healthier, more fulfilling lives. Our worldwide staff is a close community where you can see the tangible results of your contributions, where every individual matters, and everyone has a chance to enhance their skills through ongoing development. Our scientific focus has resulted in marketed products that are benefiting hundreds of thousands of people, a pipeline of late-stage drug candidates, and unmatched patient access programs to ensure medications are available to those who could otherwise not afford them. By joining Gilead, you will further our mission to address unmet medical needs and improve life by advancing the care of patients with life-threatening diseases.

Job Description

Gilead is seeking a Chief Cloud Architect to make a difference in leading and growing an Operations team to solve interesting cloud engineering challenges for a global cloud deployment, including but not limited to manageability, scalability and availability. This role will allow you bring your knowledge and experience of the DevOps domain, including production support and cloud service delivery as well as your experience in CI/CD and be part of a very dynamic and engaging engineering team. The right candidate will have shown throughout their experience a strong interest in DevOps technologies and practices and demonstrate increasing responsibilities within the domain.

Responsibilities

• Sets architectural strategic direction for Cloud roadmaps and initiatives. Contribute to the development and adoption of new architecture and standards for Cloud. Lead the design and development of cloud infrastructure and cloud services.
• Establish architectural standards that enable DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, and automated continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Applies seasoned expertise in multiple technologies to oversee and ensure mitigation of interoperability issues.
• Brings technical knowledge from external source and incorporates those ideas into IT, leading the overall architectural strategic planning.
• Translate organizational level business requirements and use cases into infrastructure capabilities verified to meet the requirements.
• Design solution-independent architecture models that map business services to cloud application stacks.
• Continuously manage, monitor, and update architecture models as business needs evolve and additional cloud services become available.
• Participate in optimizing solution architectures to manage costs and identify cost control mechanisms.
• Assist application solution architects design scalable, highly available, secure application solutions that leverage cloud services.
• Utilize cost/benefit models with mapping architecture to business outcomes and KPIs.
• Coordinate with Product Owners and Business Relationship Managers to incorporate the voice of the customer
• Maintain technical vendor relationship
• Participate in business case development and validation (for enterprise level business cloud products/projects)
• Curate cloud reference architectures

Basic Qualifications

• Associate's Degree and Sixteen Years Experience OR Bachelor's Degree and Fourteen Years Experience OR Master's Degree and Twelve Years Experience OR PhD and Ten Years Experience
• Minimum of 15 years IT architect experience
• Minimum 7 years of software development/coding experience
• Minimum of 7 years of Cloud Architecture experience, preferably on AWS

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing data center operations
• A keen interest in new technologies and open source
• Willingness to research and self-study to keep technical skills relevant in a highly complex environment
• Innovative and ability to think outside the box for creative problem solving
• Mentors and coaches colleagues and seeks opportunities for continuous improvement
• Comfortable working in cross functional and multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with great attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment

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