Associate Director, Cloud & Edge Platforms

campbellsoup; New Jersey; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Campbell Soup Company seeks an Associate Director to lead cloud and edge platforms, shaping strategy and governance for secure, scalable enterprise services. You will drive architecture, engineering, and operations alignment while partnering with cybersecurity and network teams to enable manufacturing and site workloads.

Reporting to senior leadership, you will build and mentor a multi-disciplinary team, delivering on modernization goals and platform health across cloud environments and edge

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of experience in cloud, hybrid, or infrastructure platform roles.
• 7+ years of leadership experience managing cloud architecture

Responsibilities

• Own the cloud and edge platform strategy and roadmap, aligned to modernization and manufacturing requirements.
• Provide leadership across Cloud Architecture & Engineering, Hybrid Cloud platforms and operations.
• Ensure cloud and edge platforms are architected, built, and deployed to enterprise architecture, security, and operational standards.
• Translate architectural intent into executable, standardized, and supportable solutions with engineering and operations teams.
• Oversee deployments, migrations, and hybrid integrations across enterprise and manufacturing environments.
• Ensure platforms meet availability, performance, resiliency, recoverability, and scalability expectations.
• Govern standard build patterns, reference architectures, and deployment models for Azure and hybrid workloads.
• Lead and develop managers across cloud and edge domains, with accountability for service health and lifecycle alignment.
• Partner with Cybersecurity to embed identity, access, segmentation, and cloud security controls by design.
• Collaborate with Global Network Services to ensure reliable cloud connectivity and edge networking.
• Support site workloads by aligning edge and cloud solutions with operational realities.
• Oversee lifecycle management for cloud and edge platforms, including upgrades and technology refresh.
• Provide regular communication to leadership on platform health, risks, and modernization outcomes.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Cloud architecture

Cloud engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/Engineering or related field

Tools

Azure

Job description

Since 1869, we've connected people through food they love. We're proud to be stewards of amazing brands that people trust. Our portfolio includes the iconic Campbell's brand, as well as Cape Cod, Chunky, Goldfish, Kettle Brand, Lance, Late July, Pacific Foods, Pepperidge Farm, Prego, Pace, Rao's Homemade, Snack Factory, Snyder's of Hanover. Swanson, and V8.

Here, you will make a difference every day. You will be supported to build a rewarding career with opportunities to grow, innovate and inspire. Make history with us.

Why Campbell's...

Benefits begin on day one and include medical, dental, short and long-term disability, AD&D, and life insurance (for individual, families, and domestic partners).

Employees are eligible for our matching 401(k) plan and can enroll on the first day of employment with immediate vesting.

Campbell's offers unlimited sick time along with paid time off and holiday pay.

If in WHQ - free access to the fitness center. Access to on-site day care (operated by Bright Horizons) and company store.

Giving back to the communities where our employees work and live is very important to Campbell's. Our "Campbell's Cares" program matches employee donations and/or volunteer activity up to $1,500 annually.

Campbell's has a variety of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support employees.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE HISTORY HERE...

The Associate Director, Cloud & Edge Platforms is responsible for leading the strategy, governance, and execution alignment for cloud, hybrid, and edge infrastructure platforms that support enterprise and manufacturing workloads. This role ensures cloud and edge capabilities are architected, engineered, and operated in a secure, scalable, and supportable manner, aligned with enterprise standards and business requirements.

Reporting to the Sr Director, Digital Infrastructure, this role operates within the Digital Infrastructure organization and provides senior leadership over teams responsible for cloud architecture, cloud engineering, hybrid cloud platforms, and edge-adjacent solutions. The Associate Director serves as the primary accountability point between architecture, engineering execution, and operational readiness for cloud and edge platform services.

This role leads a multi-disciplinary organization spanning cloud architecture, engineering, DevOps, hybrid cloud platforms, and edge operations.

WHAT YOU WILL DO...

• Own the cloud and edge platform strategy and roadmap, aligning it to enterprise modernization initiatives and manufacturing requirements.
• Provide leadership and governance across Cloud Architecture & Engineering, Hybrid Cloud platforms and operations, and cloud engineering execution teams.
• Ensure cloud and edge platforms are architected, built, and deployed in alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and operational standards.
• Translate architectural intent into executable, standardized, and supportable solutions in close collaboration with engineering and operations teams.
• Oversee execution of cloud deployments, migrations, and hybrid integrations across enterprise and manufacturing environments.
• Ensure platforms meet requirements for availability, performance, resiliency, recoverability, and scalability.
• Govern standard build patterns, reference architectures, and deployment models for Azure and hybrid workloads.
• Lead the Associate Director, Hybrid Cloud, providing direction and holding accountability for operational readiness, service health, and lifecycle alignment across hybrid cloud platforms.
• Lead the Sr Manager, Cloud Architecture & Engineering, providing directional support and holding accountability for cloud architecture, engineering execution, DevOps delivery, and platform standards.
• Partner with Cybersecurity to embed identity, access, segmentation, and cloud security controls by design.
• Collaborate with Global Network Services to ensure cloud connectivity, routing, and edge networking are reliable and scalable.
• Support manufacturing, warehouse, and site-based workloads by ensuring edge and cloud solutions align to operational realities.
• Oversee lifecycle management for cloud and edge platforms, including upgrades, feature adoption, and technology refresh.
• Provide regular communication to leadership on platform health, risks, delivery progress, and modernization outcomes.
• Lead and develop managers and senior technical leaders across cloud and edge domains, setting clear accountability and performance expectations.
• Serve as a key member of the Digital Infrastructure leadership team, advancing the organization's transformation and strengthening leadership and technical capabilities to meet emerging business needs.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE... (MUST HAVE)

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of experience in cloud, hybrid, or infrastructure platform roles.
• 7+ years of leadership experience managing cloud architectu