Enterprise Cloud Architect

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🕒 May 1

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $141.7k - $230.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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☁️ Cloud Engineer

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GuideWell Source

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1001 - 5000 employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🏛️ Government

🏢 Enterprise

Healthcare Insurance • Government • Enterprise

GuideWell Source is a company within the GuideWell Family that focuses on accelerating innovative health solutions to market, transforming and reshaping the health industry. It specializes in healthcare delivery, providing new models and superior outcomes for patients. The company emphasizes consumerism in healthcare, engaging clients in meaningful ways. GuideWell Source offers healthcare insurance, protecting employers and consumers with coverage plans and services. The company also provides administrative and claims processing services for state and federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, establishing itself as a trusted business partner in the healthcare sector with a focus on operational excellence.

📋 Description

• Define and maintain the enterprise cloud architecture roadmap aligned with business objectives and IT strategy. • Lead the design of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). • Establish architecture standards, patterns, reference architectures, and guardrails for cloud adoption across all business units. • Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical guidance to project teams and engineering leads. • Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and recommend adoption where strategically beneficial. • Develop and enforce cloud governance frameworks, policies, and tagging/cost management standards. • Ensure cloud environments comply with applicable regulations (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR) and internal security policies. • Partner with Information Security to integrate security-by-design principles into all cloud workloads. • Maintain documentation of architecture decisions (ADRs), infrastructure diagrams, and runbooks. • Oversee and guide enterprise cloud migration initiatives, including lift-and-shift, re-platforming, re-architecting, and retiring workloads. • Lead modernization efforts including containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.), microservices adoption, and serverless architectures. • Collaborate with application teams to assess on-premises workloads for cloud readiness and develop migration plans. • Drive cloud cost optimization strategies including right-sizing, reserved instances, and resource lifecycle management. • Partner with Finance and IT leadership to develop cloud budgets, forecasts, and chargeback/showback models. • Establish KPIs and dashboards to monitor cloud spend, performance, and operational health. • Serve as a trusted advisor to the CTO, IT Sr. Leadership, and business stakeholders on cloud strategy and investment decisions. • Mentor and coach cloud engineers and technical teams; contribute to building internal cloud competency. • Lead cloud Center of Excellence (CoE) working groups and facilitate architectural governance councils. • Collaborate with vendors, managed service providers, and external partners on cloud initiatives.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years related work experience in IT infrastructure, software engineering, or systems architecture to include 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade cloud solutions • Related Bachelor’s degree or additional related equivalent work experience Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field • Proven track record of architecting and delivering large-scale cloud migration or transformation programs. • Deep expertise in at least two major cloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. • Strong knowledge of cloud networking (VPCs, VPNs, ExpressRoute/Direct Connect, load balancing, DNS). • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Azure Bicep. • Experience with container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, GKE) and CI/CD pipelines. • Understanding of cloud security best practices, identity and access management (IAM), and Zero Trust architecture. • Familiarity with DevOps/DevSecOps practices, GitOps, and platform engineering principles.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and global travel health insurance • Income protection benefits: life insurance, short- and long-term disability programs • Leave programs to support personal circumstances • Retirement Savings Plan including employer match • Paid time off, volunteer time off, 10 holidays and 2 well-being days • Additional voluntary benefits available; and a comprehensive wellness program