Head of Enterprise Cloud Architecture & FinOps (Multi-Cloud)

Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition assistance

Health benefits

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Penn Medicine, a leading academic medical center, seeks a senior Cloud Architect to drive enterprise cloud strategy across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud in a highly regulated healthcare environment.

You will build the Cloud Enterprise Architecture team, govern multi-cloud deployments, oversee FinOps, and collaborate with AI, Security, Legal, and Research computing to align cloud initiatives with organizational priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field; 15+ years IT experience.
• 5+ years in enterprise/cloud architecture leadership.
• 3+ years leading cloud strategy or governance in regulated environments.
• 3+ years people management of architects or senior professionals.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the enterprise Cloud Strategy and govern multiple cloud providers.
• Build, lead, and develop the Cloud Enterprise Architecture team.
• Develop multi-year Enterprise Cloud Architecture roadmap.
• Establish reference architectures and guardrails for Azure as primary platform and govern the use of AWS and Google Cloud.
• Own Cloud Financial Management strategy, including cost transparency, optimization frameworks, chargeback, and reporting to senior leadership and Finance.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, healthcare data privacy requirements, and applicable regulatory and audit standards.
• Partner with Security, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, and Risk Management to establish and maintain cloud security and compliance controls.
• Collaborate with Security leaders on identity and access management, network segmentation, data residency, and cloud security baseline requirements.
• Work with the Enterprise AI Architecture leader to support AI and GenAI workloads, GPU compute, and MLOps/LLMOps needs.
• Ensure architecture standards support enterprise data platforms, clinical application hosting, research computing environments, and digital health delivery.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Multi-cloud governance

Leadership and mentoring

Regulated healthcare compliance

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/CE/IS

Tools

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

Penn Medicine, a leading academic medical center, seeks a senior Cloud Architect to drive enterprise cloud strategy across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud in a highly regulated healthcare environment.

You will build the Cloud Enterprise Architecture team, govern multi-cloud deployments, oversee FinOps, and collaborate with AI, Security, Legal, and Research computing to align cloud initiatives with organizational priorities.