Senior Director, Enterprise Cloud Platform & FinOps

Penn Medicine; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn Medicine is seeking a Senior Director for Cloud Infrastructure Services to lead the enterprise cloud platforms, ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-optimized infrastructure. You will partner with the Enterprise Architecture team, Information Security, Finance, Procurement, and clinical IT leadership to align cloud delivery with organizational goals and regulatory requirements.

You will oversee cloud platform engineering, operations, FinOps, migration and modernization programs, and vendor

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 15+ years IT experience with cloud platform engineering and enterprise infrastructure in large organizations.
• 5+ years leading cloud infrastructure or platform engineering programs in enterprise or regulated environments.
• 5+ years direct people management experience overseeing cloud teams.

Responsibilities

• Owns enterprise cloud service delivery, accountable for the availability, performance, reliability, and security of Penn Medicine's cloud platforms and infrastructure services across clinical, research, academic, and administrative domains, and establishes the SLAs, SLOs, and operational performance metrics that meet organizational requirements.
• Translates enterprise cloud architecture standards, reference architectures, and governance frameworks defined by the Enterprise Architecture team into operational cloud platforms, engineering implementations, and service delivery processes, ensuring execution fidelity to approved architectural direction.
• Leads enterprise cloud vendor strategy and commercial management, including provider capability assessment, negotiation of enterprise agreements and volume discounts, academic and research pricing programs, and governance of provider relationships to secure optimal terms and service commitments.
• Owns FinOps and cloud cost optimization strategy and execution, including cost modeling, demand forecasting, resource utilization optimization, chargeback and showback models, and financial reporting on cloud spend to Finance, leadership, and governance bodies, driving measurable cost reduction and avoidance aligned to organizational financial targets.
• Ensures Penn Medicine's cloud infrastructure and platform services maintain a NIST-aligned security and compliance posture, including NIST Cybersecurity Framework controls, HIPAA-compliant cloud configurations, security baselines, identity and access management standards, and audit-ready evidence documentation, in partnership with Information Security to align with enterprise security architecture requirements.
• Leads the enterprise cloud application migration and modernization program, prioritizing opportunities, applying standard migration approaches (rehost, replatform, refactor), coordinating with application owners and clinical IT teams, and delivering against agreed timelines and business objectives.
• Manages cloud platform capacity planning and demand alignment, forecasting compute, storage, and networking requirements across clinical, research, AI, and enterprise workloads so capacity is available, cost-efficient, and responsive to organizational demand cycles.
• Drives platform automation, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud operational maturity, reducing manual effort and increasing platform consistency, repeatability, and deployment velocity across the cloud environment.
• Ensures integration of cloud infrastructure services with enterprise IT ecosystems, including ITSM, CMDB, monitoring and observability platforms, identity services, and networking infrastructure, and keeps cloud platforms operationally coherent with on-premises and hybrid infrastructure.
• Partners with the Enterprise Architecture team to align architectural strategy with operational execution, participating in architecture review boards and governance forums as the operational and engineering voice, and translating architectural decisions into platform roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Defines and transparently reports cloud infrastructure operational metrics, including platform availability, incident response performance, cost optimization outcomes, migration velocity, compliance posture, and service delivery quality, to IT leadership, Finance, and executive stakeholders.
• Monitors emerging cloud platform capabilities, provider roadmaps, and industry best practices, evaluates their operational and financial implications for Penn Medicine's cloud strategy, and recommends platform investments, migrations, and service model evolutions to leadership.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Cloud operations

People leadership

FinOps

Cost optimization

Vendor management

Security compliance

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Job description

Penn Medicine is seeking a Senior Director for Cloud Infrastructure Services to lead the enterprise cloud platforms, ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-optimized infrastructure. You will partner with the Enterprise Architecture team, Information Security, Finance, Procurement, and clinical IT leadership to align cloud delivery with organizational goals and regulatory requirements.

You will oversee cloud platform engineering, operations, FinOps, migration and modernization programs, and vendor