Principal Cloud Architect

Nuance Healthcare is looking for a Principal Cloud Architect for the Cloud Enablement team. Your primary focus will be helping to guide and deliver Nuance's Healthcare solutions in the public cloud. You will work in a team of Cloud experts to deliver next-generation Cloud solutions, partnering with product engineering teams on their Cloud architecture, engineering, and security.
A successful candidate will have experience designing, building, and deploying public cloud solutions, and have the drive to constantly raise the bar to improve how we deliver our portfolio of products. Read more about our solutions at https://www.nuance.com/healthcare.html.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities
- Design and implement secure cloud application environments.
- Maintain security standards according to internal policies.
- Provide mentoring and coaching to product teams to help further our Cloud maturity.
- Partner with architects to define a vision of technical excellence for Cloud architecture, tools, and processes.
- Analyze existing systems and propose software architecture improvements, paying particular attention to latency, accuracy and extensibility.
- Assess architectures and technical assets from product teams, and propose a technology consolidation plans where possible.
- Write detailed designs, clearly convey intent and ideas to the developers.
- Solve complex technical problems / communicate ideas and plans to a diverse set of colleagues, negotiate technical solutions across teams when needed.
- Working in a distributed environment with teams around the world.
- Seamlessly shift between multiple, concurrent projects.
- Define KPIs to monitor and maintain required service levels.
Education: Bachelors, Masters or PHD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
Minimum years of work experience
- 5+ years cloud software delivery experience.
- 10+ years software industry experience.
Required skills
- Deep experience delivering large scale solution on the cloud, millions of cloud transactions per month.
- Deep experience with agile methodologies; continuous integration, delivery and deployment to production.
- Strong Programming experience with Python and / or C#.
- Hands on experience designing and deploying containerized environments, Kubernetes, orchestration frameworks, and associated technologies.
- Experience implementing monitoring & alerting for Cloud solutions, and Application Performance Monitoring solutions.
- Experience designing and deploying auto scaling patterns for Cloud solutions.
- Complete software life cycle experience, including deployment to production.
- Clear passion for software engineering, design and, performance.
- Must be able to work in a distributed environment and balance competing priorities.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, for communication with globally distributed Nuance teams.
Preferred skills
- Embraces software development processes and design principles.
- Experience with Scrum methodology and Agile practices.
- Experience leading teams delivering public cloud solutions.
- Deep knowledge and understanding of public cloud, MS Azure, GCP, or AWS.
- Experience with containers and orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes; related components like Prometheus.
- Experience with software load balancers, message queues, and other task distribution technologies.
- Experience with data lake and analytics technologies.
- Strong background in DevOps concepts and tools.
- Experience delivering highly available and highly scalable solutions.
- Understanding of different techniques and options for HA and DR.
- Experience securing products, tools, and processes.
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