Dir, Architecture

Syneos Health, Inc.; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading life sciences services organization is seeking a cloud architect to own cloud architecture strategy across multiple platforms. The role requires 10-12 years of experience in cloud environments, particularly Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI. Key responsibilities include defining resilience and security patterns, establishing architecture governance, and influencing design standards. Strong communication skills and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field are required. This role is hybrid based in Hyderabad, India.

Qualifications

• 10-12 years of experience in cloud architecture and engineering.
• Strong PaaS patterns and experience with Azure/AWS/GCP/OCI.
• Demonstrated credibility as a design authority.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud architecture strategy across Azure/AWS/GCP/OCI and hybrid environments.
• Define resiliency, disaster recovery, and security patterns.
• Establish and run architecture governance and design reviews.

Skills

Cloud architecture strategy

Multi-cloud architecture

Resiliency engineering

Security architecture fundamentals

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Updated: March 26, 2026

Location: IND-Hyderabad-Hybrid

Job ID: 25105915

Job Overview

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress. Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.

Job Responsibilities

• Own cloud architecture strategy, reference architectures, and engineering standards across Azure/AWS/GCP/OCI and hybrid environments, with strong PaaS patterns and guidance.
• Define resiliency, disaster recovery, security, availability, and dependency patterns upfront (including target SLAs/SLOs) and socialize them through clear design artifacts.
• Translate architectural intent into enforceable guardrails, including policy as code, blueprinting, and paved-road patterns that reduce variation and rework.
• Review and shape platform and product designs in partnership with Engineering and Infrastructure, ensuring alignment to standards and documented risk tradeoffs.
• Establish and run consistent architecture governance (design reviews, decision records, exception process, and lifecycle updates to standards).
• Lead dependency modeling and risk assessments for critical services, driving pragmatic recommendations that balance resiliency, cost, performance, and delivery timelines.
• Define cloud landing-zone and platform guardrails (networking, identity, encryption, logging/monitoring) and ensure they are adoptable by delivery teams.
• Influence through standards: coach teams, create reusable templates and reference implementations, and drive alignment without becoming a delivery bottleneck.

Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience); advanced degree preferred.
• Deep multi-cloud architecture experience (Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI), including strong PaaS exposure and experience designing secure, scalable platform patterns.
• Demonstrated credibility as a design authority across engineering and operations teams, with a track record of driving adoption of standards and reference architectures.
• Strong grasp of resiliency engineering, disaster recovery, availability patterns, dependency modeling, and risk tradeoffs (cost/performance/reliability).
• Hands‑on experience translating architecture into enforceable guardrails (policy as code, landing zone controls, standardized pipelines/templates, and exception management).
• Strong security architecture fundamentals (identity, network segmentation, encryption, logging/monitoring) and familiarity with regulated/audit-driven environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence through standards, coach teams, and align stakeholders on architectural decisions.

Years of Experience

10-12 years of experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Syneos Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, marital status, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status and will not be discriminated against. If you are an individual with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to complete any part of our application process, including the use of this website, please contact us at: Email: [e-mail]

Contact Information

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Toll-Free: 866 462 7373

Website: http://www.syneoshealth.com