Director Cloud Platform Adoption

This position is incentive eligible.

Job Summary and Qualifications

Do you have the career opportunities as a Director Cloud Platform Adoption you want with your current employer? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join HCA Healthcare which is part of the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Position Summary

The Director Cloud Platform role is a great opportunity for anyone passionate about leadership, coaching, mentoring, technology and innovation looking to join a highly collaborative, team oriented organization. You will be responsible for building strong relationships with HCA ITG leaders, project managers, architects, and other technical teams for delivering products and services to meet their needs while adhering to industry best practices and HCA Policies and Guidelines.

As a member of the HCA ITG Cloud Leadership Team, the Director Cloud Platform reports to the AVP of Cloud Infrastructure and is charged to understand the goals/objectives of the enterprise, and to provide clear leadership and coaching to ensure that all members of the team understand their roles/responsibilities and are positioned for success.

You will work closely with various areas of the enterprise to define and empower the delivery of cloud services and solutions, focusing on infrastructure as code (IAC) across a multi-tiered, multi cloud strategy. These responsibilities require the candidate to have a deep understanding of:

• Infrastructure as Code
• Cloud Platform Engineering
• Disaster Recovery / High Availability
• Google Cloud
• Microsoft Azure

You will interact daily with the following departments:

• Executive Leadership
• Security Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture
• Application Product teams
• Information Privacy and Protection
• Business Partners
• Vendors

Major Responsibilities:

• Works with Executive Leadership to develop short- and long-range product and service strategies and plans. Oversees the execution of operating plans for specified area of responsibility.
• Develops a rigorous technology architecture, leveraging cloud services and automation to enable business strategies and ensure public cloud solutions are optimized for cost and functionality.
• Develops and drives the cloud computing strategy along with the introduction of new emerging technologies and public cloud services, cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring strategies
• Collaborates and leads target state Cloud Architecture, partnering with other areas, such as Enterprise Architecture and Development teams. Works with development teams and other stakeholders to drive and enable the migration and refactoring of on-premises applications to cloud native design and deployment methodologies.
• Ensures all technical leaders have architected resilient and robust systems. May oversee technology assessments, technology strategy reviews, and provide internal consulting to ensure all areas are practicing sound architecture hygiene.
• Translates complex ideas, technology, and programs into language executive leadership can relate to and performs as a key influencer on technical decisions that affect the business on a long-term basis.
• Leads the Development of metrics and scorecards to influence the technology teams on industry best practices for cloud development.
• Directs Architecture in defining technology strategy and roadmaps.
• Performs as an idea generator, working with others as a thought leader and subject- matter expert to help brainstorm new processes and solutions.
• Reviews the competitive marketplace and makes adjustments to operational activities based

Leadership/Coaching

• Participate in setting and ensure that members of the team understand Team Goals, Strategies and Priorities.
• Participate in setting Departmental goals, strategies and priorities.
• Demonstrate ability and willingness to share ideas with Associates, peers and management.
• Embrace a coaching culture, provide feedback to Associates, peers and management.
• Serve as a mentor to provide coaching and technical guidance to Team.
• Break Team goals into manageable plans and assign activities to team members with defined timelines.
• Provide leadership/guidance to ensure completion of assigned activities within defined timelines.
• Demonstrate a positive attitude and set an example for colleagues and Team.
• Attend regular leadership status meetings and be engaged in meeting discussions and strategic planning.
• Hold regular Team meetings to provide transparency in Team goals/priorities.
• Hold regular one-on-one and skip level sessions with team members to provide coaching and feedback (positive and constructive) to support professional development.

Planning and Organization

• Understand and be able to communicate daily, weekly and monthly personal and Team Goals from Executive Leadership
• Plan daily, weekly, and monthly individual and teamwork activities in alignment with established/defined Team Goals/Priorities.
• Execute against approved daily, weekly and monthly plans and keep leadership informed of work status/progress.
• Monitor status/progress against approved Team daily, weekly and monthly plans and keep leadership informed.
• Independently manage assigned tasks and project components to complete within established timelines.
• Identify and communicate potential business impacts when planning changes to production systems.
• Participate with enterprise leadership and technical teams to establish appropriate project timelines to deliver sustainable solutions within approved time and budget parameters.
• Demonstrate accountability and provide leadership in planning for all projects.
• Demonstrate attention to detail.

Education & Experience:

• Master's degree preferred
• Bachelor's degree required
• 10 years of relevant experience required

Licenses, Certifications, & Training:

• Cloud Certification preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors:

• Cloud Certification Required – AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience using AI in daily job
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a team lead or leadership role required
• Experience with multiple public cloud platforms
• Ability to lead and motivate highly skilled engineers
• Strong Communication Skills
• Strong experience in Core background spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or operations.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Knowledge of all components of technical architecture
• Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes preferred

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services

• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services

• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence

• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling

• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

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