Staff Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Role Description

The Staff Cloud Infrastructure Architect shapes resilient, secure, and scalable cloud foundations that accelerate Empower's growth, protect business operations, and improve technology economics. This role owns architecture standards, reference patterns, modernization roadmaps, and technical decisions across Azure, AWS, networking, platform engineering, and Infrastructure-as-Code, partnering with Security, Quality, Data, and Application teams. AI serves as a force multiplier to increase delivery speed, operational scale, engineering quality, and decision-making through intelligent automation, predictive insights, and problem resolution. Success requires navigating Empower's hyper-growth, highly regulated 503A/503B environment with disciplined risk management, audit readiness, and execution. The role demands strategic thinking, execution rigor, learning agility, and leadership to convert ambiguity into infrastructure capabilities that support compliant innovation, reliability, and performance while raising architectural standards and engineering accountability enterprise-wide.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Strategy and Architecture
  • Strategic Architecture: Define cloud architecture principles, target states, and reference patterns across Azure and AWS, translating business priorities into sequenced modernization roadmaps.
  • Platform Modernization: Architect the migration of on-premises and data center workloads to cloud-native services, balancing speed, compliance, reliability, and total cost.
  • Capacity Intelligence: Design infrastructure capacity, resilience, and performance strategies that anticipate demand rather than react to incidents.
• Engineering Excellence and Automation
  • Code Standards: Establish and govern Infrastructure-as-Code standards using Terraform, cloud-native tooling, modular patterns, testing, and policy controls.
  • Operational Automation: Engineer intelligent automation for provisioning, patching, configuration, monitoring, incident response, and routine operational work.
  • Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on architectural leadership for complex initiatives, reviewing designs, resolving constraints, and raising engineering quality across teams.
• Security, Compliance, and Partnership
  • Security Architecture: Embed security, privacy, and compliance requirements into cloud architecture from design through operation.
  • Risk Governance: Translate technical risk into clear business impact, mitigation options, ownership, and deadlines.
  • Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with Application, Data, Security, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, and vendor teams to deliver cloud capabilities that solve business problems.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of Azure and AWS architecture, networking, identity, resilience, observability, and cloud economics.
• Advanced proficiency with Terraform, Infrastructure-as-Code lifecycle practices, CI/CD, policy-as-code, automated testing, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Strong command of cloud security, risk management, disaster recovery, audit evidence, and compliance-by-design principles.
• Exceptional systems thinking, communication, and influence skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of advanced technical education and relevant experience.
• Ten (10) or more years of progressive infrastructure or cloud engineering experience.
• Demonstrated success designing and implementing secure, resilient, and automated cloud platforms.
• Proven experience with Terraform, cloud landing zones, identity and access management, observability, disaster recovery, CI/CD, and responsible application of AI.

Certifications

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Terraform certification strongly preferred.
• Azure Administrator, Azure AI Engineer, Kubernetes, AWS Solutions Architect, or ITIL credentials preferred.

Key Competencies

• Customer Focus: Builds trust through customer-centric solutions.
• Strategic AI: Guides responsible AI adoption and adaptation.
• Optimizes Work Processes: Drives efficiency with continuous improvement.
• Collaborates: Partners effectively to achieve shared goals.
• Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources efficiently.
• Manages Complexity: Simplifies and solves complex challenges.
• Ensures Accountability: Delivers on commitments with integrity.
• Situational Adaptability: Adjusts approach to shifting conditions.
• Communicates Effectively: Tailors messages to diverse audiences.

Values

• People: Empowering people defines who we are.
• Quality: Excellence in every product, every time.
• Service: Serving others is our highest purpose.
• Innovation: Advancing care through technology and discovery.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits to support your health, well-being, and future, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off.
• 401(k) matching.
• Wellness perks, IV therapy, and compounded medications.

Physical Requirements

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday and frequently use their hands and fingers to handle or feel in order to access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. Employees are regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.