Principal Cloud Platform Architect - Remote

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Principal Cloud Platform Architect - RemoteJob Description

The Principal Cloud Platform Architect is responsible for leading strategic solutions and architectures that fulfill specific business and technology outcomes focused on AWS/GCP public cloud solutions with focus in AI/Generative AI. Solutions include projects, products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services. The Principal Architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis, and design tasks to support the development of solutions to ensure solutions meet business needs and align with architecture governance and standards. This position creates deliverables for managing the "to be" and "as is" architecture intent for the assigned area.

Responsibilities

• Research and provide information related to the adoption of emerging technology trends, disruptions, and practices relevant to assigned domain
• Engage key stakeholders to identify business and technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enable and drive business outcomes
• Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and document all architecture design and analysis work
• Develop solution and architecture deliverables to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information)
• Participate in development and application of principles, standards, and patterns through the architecture assurance and governance model
• Develop, maintain, and evolve the architecture and solution context (current state, transition state, and future state) for assigned area
• Act as a consultant on a broad range of architectures, technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes
• Analyze and monitor assigned area to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommend solutions for improvement
• Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software and technology product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations
• Other duties as assigned

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related area of study, or equivalent combination of education and/or relevant work experience; HS diploma or GED is required
• 8 years of related work experience in Business Analysis, System Design and Development, Systems Engineering, or technical architecture; to include 3 years direct experience working within an Architect role
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without need for work visa or residency sponsorship

Additional Qualifications

• Experience identifying and applying design and architecture patterns in solutions
• Ability to communicate and present effectively with business and IT stakeholders to gain consensus
• Ability to define, plan and initiate architecture for assigned area and scope
• Demonstrate wide understanding of the domain area, with ability to apply practical and pragmatic solutions
• Self-learner and ability to work independently
• Experience handling a variety of solution types, such as new system builds, legacy enhancements, implementing commercial-off-the-shelf packages and integrating with Cloud solutions
• Awareness of the Google and Amazon AI/Generative AI offerings in the market.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with regulatory compliance requirements (HIPAA and/or PCI)
• Previous experience in PBM / health care industry
• Previous experience working an in Agile/Product Delivery model
• Experience with software development life cycle and project management principles
• Hands on Amazon and Google Cloud Platform/DevOps experience
• Consultative approach to problem solving with a focus on cloud architecture

Physical Demands

• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time
• Constantly required to sit, use hands to handle or feel, talk, and hear
• Frequently required to reach with hands and arms
• Occasionally required to stand, walk and stoop, kneel, and crouch
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus

Every employee must understand, comply with and attest to the security responsibilities and security controls unique to their job, and comply with all applicable legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements and internal policies and procedures.

Potential pay for this position ranges from $124,000.00 - $211,000.00 based on experience and skills.

Prime Therapeutics LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We encourage diverse candidates to apply, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, or any other basis protected by law. 

We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives including qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records and any qualified applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in accordance with the law.

Prime Therapeutics LLC is a Tobacco-Free Workplace employer.

Positions will be posted for a minimum of five consecutive workdays.