Associate Director, Lead Cloud Architect

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Position Summary

The Associate Director (Lead Cloud Architect) is an open position for core technical leadership role and a 100% focused on architecting, developing, and automating the most critical components of our AWS Cloud Platform and application delivery pipeline. This role requires at least 10 years of hands-on experience in application development, deep cloud expertise, and a strong product development mindset—treating the cloud platform and developer toolchain as internal products with measurable user experience and continuous iteration. You will be the authoritative expert defining standards for IaC, CI/CD, and SecDevOps using GitHub as the primary source of truth. A key deliverable is driving innovation by incorporating AI/ML tools into the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) to enhance security, quality, and velocity across all application teams. Success in this role is measured strictly by the successful design, implementation, and scalability of complex, production-ready cloud solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

I. Deep Technical Design & Hands-On Engineering

• AWS Foundational Architecture: Serve as the technical owner and primary builder of the AWS Landing Zone architecture (Control Tower, AWS Organizations), ensuring high availability, network resilience (Transit Gateway), and cost efficiency.
• Expert IaC Development: Author and maintain advanced, enterprise-grade Infrastructure-as-Code modules using CloudFormation  and version control with GitHub, promoting a strict GitOps model for infrastructure delivery.
• Scalable Application Architecture: Architect, design, and validate highly scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud-native architectures for enterprise applications, enforcing best practices like serverless-first, auto-scaling, and multi-AZ deployments. Design application for disaster recovery in IaaS Cloud platform.
• Modern Application Development: Leverage 10+ years of application development experience to build robust, scalable, and secure cloud-native solutions (Cloud Front, Lambda, API Gateway, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, DynamoDB, S3), focusing on performance and operational excellence.
• SecDevOps Automation: Embed security automation at every phase of the CI/CD pipeline, implementing policy-as-code (e.g., OPA) and automated compliance checks without sacrificing developer velocity. Well knowledge around usage of AWS Config, Identity and Access management Roles and Policies , Organization Policies etc.

II. Product Mindset & Innovation

• Product Development Approach: Own the cloud platform and developer toolchain as a product, focusing on improving developer experience (DX), reducing friction, and delivering measurable time-to-market improvements for application teams.
• AI-Powered SDLC Integration: Lead the strategy and technical integration of emerging technologies (e.g., Generative AI for code generation, intelligent testing, automated security patch recommendations) to modernize our internal SDLC toolchain.
• CI/CD Mastery: Architect and optimize the enterprise CI/CD platform (leveraging GitHub Actions or equivalent tooling) to enable true continuous delivery workflows.
• FinOps & Resource Optimization: Develop automated mechanisms and reference architectures to optimize AWS spend and drive utilization efficiency across all business units.

III. Technical Governance & Mentorship

• Technical Standard Bearer: Establish and enforce technical standards, design patterns, and quality gates for cloud adoption, ensuring consistency and adherence to regulatory compliance.
• Architecture Review: Lead the technical review process for major cloud projects, ensuring all solutions are scalable, reliable, and adhere to defined security baselines.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Experience

Degree

Minimum BS level technical degree required; Computer Science or Engineering background preferred

Experience

10+ years of progressive experience in IT/Software Development, with 7+ years dedicated to large-scale, enterprise AWS engineering and DevOps delivery.

Core Skills

Expert-level proficiency in Python, NodeJS (or other major programming language) and CloudFormation (Other IaC tools) for building production systems.

Version Control

Expert-level knowledge of GitHub for code management, branching strategies and leveraging features like Actions or Advanced Security.

Certification

Preferred: Holds an active AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional certification.

Product Focus

Proven ability to define and deliver platform capabilities with a product development mindset, emphasizing user stories (developer needs) and measurable outcomes (reduced deployment time, increased security coverage).

Technical Depth

Demonstrated expertise in designing and debugging complex IAM policies, network architectures, and troubleshooting high-volume, distributed cloud systems.

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The starting compensation range(s) for this role are listed above for a full-time employee (FTE) basis. Additional incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility) may be available. The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills, where the job is performed, the employee’s work schedule, job-related knowledge, and experience. Final, individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience. 
Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits, please visit https://careers.bms.com/life-at-bms/.
 

Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans in effect at the time and may require enrollment. Our benefits include:

• Health Coverage: Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.

• Wellbeing Support: Programs such as BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).

• Financial Well-being and Protection: 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, and survivor support.

​Work-life benefits include:

Paid Time Off

• US Exempt Employees: flexible time off (unlimited, with manager approval, 11 paid national holidays (not applicable to employees in Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico or Rayzebio employees)

• Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico and Rayzebio Exempt, Non-Exempt, Hourly Employees: 160 hours annual paid vacation for new hires with manager approval, 11 national holidays, and 3 optional holidays

Based on eligibility*, additional time off for employees may include unlimited paid sick time, up to 2 paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs and an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day.

All global employees full and part-time who are actively employed at and paid directly by BMS at the end of the calendar year are eligible to take advantage of the Global Shutdown.

*Eligibility Disclosure: The summer hours program is for United States (U.S.) office-based employees due to the unique nature of their work. Summer hours are generally not available for field sales and manufacturing operations and may also be limited for the capability centers. Employees in remote-by-design or lab-based roles may be eligible for summer hours, depending on the nature of their work, and should discuss eligibility with their manager. Employees covered under a collective bargaining agreement should consult that document to determine if they are eligible. Contractors, leased workers and other service providers are not eligible to participate in the program.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

Supporting People with Disabilities

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

Candidate Rights

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County if hired for this position, please visit this page for important additional information: https://careers.bms.com/california-residents/

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