Senior Cloud Architect
AbbVie
4 hours ago
Remote friendly (Florham Park, NJ)
United States
IT
Responsibilities:
- Define, drive, and continually refine enterprise cloud architecture strategy aligned to vision, business objectives, and GxP compliance.
- Lead architecture and hands-on implementation of secure, resilient, scalable AWS-centered solutions using EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Aurora, DynamoDB, RDS, and EventBridge.
- Develop, evaluate, and endorse architectural diagrams and comprehensive documentation aligned with best practices.
- Oversee cloud infrastructure design and automation using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible).
- Lead multicloud and hybrid data platform architecture (primarily AWS: Glue, Athena, Redshift; Azure Data Lake) for regulated analytics pipelines using Spark, Databricks Lakehouse, and cloud-native services.
- Design, implement, and govern CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild).
- Embed AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization) and conduct regular reviews.
- Set direction/standards for containerized (EKS, ECS, Fargate) and serverless (Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge) platforms.
- Ensure security and compliance (IAM, encryption, validated environments) in collaboration with compliance/audit teams.
- Architect modernization and migration of on-prem applications, data, and infrastructure to cloud-native solutions.
- Define cloud guardrails (landing zones, account/network patterns, IAM boundaries, encryption, logging, tagging, policy-as-code) across AWS and Azure.
- Serve as technical authority and mentor; review designs to raise architecture bar.
- Architect observability solutions using industry best practices.
- Use AI/MCP-enabled capabilities to validate designs and support guided workflows with auditability.
- Oversee cloud cost management (monitor/optimize costs; tagging and financial governance).
- Guide incident/problem management and reliability improvements; support POCs/pilots with application teams.
- Present cloud architecture strategies, roadmaps, and solutions to senior leaders and peer architects.
- Build and maintain relationships with affiliates, partners, vendors, and industry.
Qualifications
Required:
- Degree and experience: Bachelor’s (9 years), Master’s (8 years), or PhD (4 years).
- AWS core: EC2, VPC, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, CloudWatch.
- Multi-cloud & data: Azure, Azure Data Lake, Databricks, Athena, Redshift.
- IaC: CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, Ansible.
- DevOps/automation: Jenkins, GitHub, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, Git, PowerShell, Python, Bash.
- Security & compliance: IAM, encryption standards; GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, GDPR.
- Networking: VPC, subnetting, VPN, Direct Connect, routing, load balancing.
- Monitoring: AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic.
- Strong verbal/written communication; cross-functional collaboration; ability to document and present solutions.
Preferred:
- 9+ years cloud architecture experience (AWS primary; GCP/Azure optional).
- Demonstrated AWS environment optimization using AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- CI/CD pipeline architecture with AWS technologies.
- AWS certifications: Solutions Architect (Professional), DevOps Engineer, Cloud Practitioner; CISSP/CCSP advantageous.
- Advanced AWS services expertise for serverless/containerized development.
- Advanced IaC and automation (CloudFormation/Terraform; Jenkins/Ansible/Git; scripting with Python/Bash/PowerShell).
- Agile tools experience (e.g., Jira) for release delivery.
- Experience with monitoring/governance tools; disaster recovery/high availability.
- Ability to communicate complex concepts across business and technical stakeholders; strong innovation/integration of emerging AWS technologies.
Benefits:
- Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick).
- Medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) for eligible employees.
- Eligible for short-term incentive programs.
Application instructions:
- US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation: https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
- Define, drive, and continually refine enterprise cloud architecture strategy aligned to vision, business objectives, and GxP compliance.
- Lead architecture and hands-on implementation of secure, resilient, scalable AWS-centered solutions using EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Aurora, DynamoDB, RDS, and EventBridge.
- Develop, evaluate, and endorse architectural diagrams and comprehensive documentation aligned with best practices.
- Oversee cloud infrastructure design and automation using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible).
- Lead multicloud and hybrid data platform architecture (primarily AWS: Glue, Athena, Redshift; Azure Data Lake) for regulated analytics pipelines using Spark, Databricks Lakehouse, and cloud-native services.
- Design, implement, and govern CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild).
- Embed AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization) and conduct regular reviews.
- Set direction/standards for containerized (EKS, ECS, Fargate) and serverless (Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge) platforms.
- Ensure security and compliance (IAM, encryption, validated environments) in collaboration with compliance/audit teams.
- Architect modernization and migration of on-prem applications, data, and infrastructure to cloud-native solutions.
- Define cloud guardrails (landing zones, account/network patterns, IAM boundaries, encryption, logging, tagging, policy-as-code) across AWS and Azure.
- Serve as technical authority and mentor; review designs to raise architecture bar.
- Architect observability solutions using industry best practices.
- Use AI/MCP-enabled capabilities to validate designs and support guided workflows with auditability.
- Oversee cloud cost management (monitor/optimize costs; tagging and financial governance).
- Guide incident/problem management and reliability improvements; support POCs/pilots with application teams.
- Present cloud architecture strategies, roadmaps, and solutions to senior leaders and peer architects.
- Build and maintain relationships with affiliates, partners, vendors, and industry.
Qualifications
Required:
- Degree and experience: Bachelor’s (9 years), Master’s (8 years), or PhD (4 years).
- AWS core: EC2, VPC, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, CloudWatch.
- Multi-cloud & data: Azure, Azure Data Lake, Databricks, Athena, Redshift.
- IaC: CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, Ansible.
- DevOps/automation: Jenkins, GitHub, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, Git, PowerShell, Python, Bash.
- Security & compliance: IAM, encryption standards; GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, GDPR.
- Networking: VPC, subnetting, VPN, Direct Connect, routing, load balancing.
- Monitoring: AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic.
- Strong verbal/written communication; cross-functional collaboration; ability to document and present solutions.
Preferred:
- 9+ years cloud architecture experience (AWS primary; GCP/Azure optional).
- Demonstrated AWS environment optimization using AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- CI/CD pipeline architecture with AWS technologies.
- AWS certifications: Solutions Architect (Professional), DevOps Engineer, Cloud Practitioner; CISSP/CCSP advantageous.
- Advanced AWS services expertise for serverless/containerized development.
- Advanced IaC and automation (CloudFormation/Terraform; Jenkins/Ansible/Git; scripting with Python/Bash/PowerShell).
- Agile tools experience (e.g., Jira) for release delivery.
- Experience with monitoring/governance tools; disaster recovery/high availability.
- Ability to communicate complex concepts across business and technical stakeholders; strong innovation/integration of emerging AWS technologies.
Benefits:
- Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick).
- Medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) for eligible employees.
- Eligible for short-term incentive programs.
Application instructions:
- US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation: https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html