Lead Cloud Architect

WHY UT SOUTHWESTERN?
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the number 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth according to U.S. News & World Report, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you'll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a rewarding career 

JOB SUMMARY
The Lead Cloud Architect will design and implement enterprise-level cloud solutions that align with UT Southwestern’s strategic objectives, ensuring scalability, security, and cost efficiency. This role collaborates with cross-functional teams to integrate cloud technologies, provides technical leadership and mentorship, and drives innovation through multi-cloud and AI adoption. The position requires deep expertise in cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, and compliance standards, with a proven ability to optimize complex environments in an academic medical center setting.  This position does not support H1B visa sponsorship.  Incumbent must reside in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. 

 

BENEFITS
UT Southwestern is proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our benefits are designed to support your overall wellbeing, and include:

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer
• Learn more about these and other UTSW employee benefits

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

Required

• Education
  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Education, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Business, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems, or related field.
   

• Experience
  10 years of experience in an enterprise support role and relevant experience designing or supporting resources and services in cloud-based architecture models, to include at least five years experience enabling production workloads in Microsoft, Amazon or Google cloud(s). 
   

• Licenses and Certifications
  Google Professional Cloud (GPC) architect or 
  Google Associate Cloud Engineer or 
  Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals or 
  Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate or 
  Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or 
  AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or 
  AWS Certified Solutions Architect ‿ Professional or 
  AWS Certified Solutions Architect ‿ Associate 
   

JOB DUTIES

• Performs evaluations, recommendations and implementations from an on-premises and cloud network perspective in the context of a larger enterprise ecosystem. Contributes meaningfully to the overall IT portfolio strategy.
• Shares blueprints and translate cloud products, services, and capabilities, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to colleagues who represent a wide range of technical acumen.
• Continuously evaluates and optimizes cloud infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Works with stakeholders across the organization to evaluate cloud systems and identify appropriate solutions. Collaborates with executive leadership to demonstrate comprehensive planning details.
• Ensures back-end best practices such as backup, logging, monitoring, configuration, and redundancy are incorporated into standards.
• Stays current on Cloud-provider IAM (Identity and Management) concepts and workflows, authentication integrations, and platform administration.
• Provides specifications and detailed schematics for architecture including standards or reference architectures, in accordance with a vision developed from business requirements.
• May occasionally lead projects or project steps within a broader project or have accountability for ongoing activities or objectives and the work of small project teams.
• Provides specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, implementation techniques, and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity planning.
• Fosters relationship with key or strategic external vendors, identifying scenarios for partnership.
• Ensures adherence to quality standards and provides technical guidance to team members and contractors.
• Understands and promotes Software Development Life Cycle principles and the underlying technologies that support it.
• Provides an expert level of functional knowledge to the project and team leadership in a specialized field such as business, engineering, IT Governance, and knowledge management. Applicable functional areas include systems engineering, business process, quality assurance, organizational planning, configuration and data information systems, major enterprise-wide technology deployments, or strategic enterprise infrastructure redesign.
• Mentors and supports the work activities of lower-level cloud architects or support staff. Conducts training or retraining in architecture concepts, analysis, design, and frameworks to small audiences.
• Remains knowledgeable of changes in technology, industry practices, and state and federal regulatory requirements by attendance at training seminars, trade shows and related venues.
• Solves complex problems and takes a new perspective on existing solutions.
• Incorporates security best practices to protect cloud network infrastructure from cyber threats and unauthorized access.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

SECURITY AND EEO STATEMENT

Security
This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information. To the extent this position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Section 117.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code, the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the critical infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired and to continue to be employed in the position.

EEO
UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.