Chief Architect, Cloud Solutions

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The Vocera Platform, an industry-leading clinical communication and workflow platform, is the intelligent ecosystem that connects clinical staff and information needed to deliver patient care. The Chief Architect, Cloud Solutions, is responsible for leading, designing, helping implement, and signing off on all cloud architectures for the Vocera Platform. The Chief Architect will report to the Senior Director of Cloud Solutions for Stryker’s Acute Care business unit and manage the Clinical Communications & Workflow software architecture team.

In this role, you will help our customers solve business challenges by rapidly releasing products/services to the market and building elastic, scalable, cost-optimized cloud applications. Cloud components include infrastructure for storage, messaging services, monitoring, security management, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Web APIs, and “serverless” applications. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including software engineering, DevOps, quality assurance, product management, and healthcare experts, to ensure the delivery of high-quality, world-class software solutions.

This role can be based in either San Diego, CA or San Jose, CA, and will require a hybrid work schedule.

What you will do:

The Chief Architect must follow cloud architecture best practices by considering performance, security, protection of private data, handling large data, future data load, and cost when designing any Cloud architecture. The Chief Architect should also provide guidance and promote best practices in software design. The Chief Architect must effectively communicate cloud architectures and concepts to software engineer teammates to implement.

The key responsibilities of the Chief Architect are:

• Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert to the organization for end-to-end cloud architecture, including AWS and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management.
• Develop a library of deployable and documented cloud design patterns, based on the application portfolio, as a basis for deploying services to the cloud.
• Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the “why” and articulate several options and their pros/cons, build a consensus with key thought leaders, and provide technical recommendations.
• Maintain overall industry knowledge of the latest trends, technology, etc.
• Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public, and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.
• Demonstrate knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes.
• Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for cloud-based applications.
• Manage a team of senior principal architects across multiple software domains.

All cloud architecture must abide by medical standards as medical devices use our Cloud systems. This means all cloud architectures signed off by the Chief Architect must adhere to any requirements under our software release process based on medical standards. A part of this is for the Chief Architect to be comfortable with independent reviewers reviewing the architecture and effectively communicating the cloud architecture to independent reviewers.

Minimum Qualifications (Required):

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience
• 10 years of software development experience in a variety of disciplines
• 5 years of experience in leading cloud software development
• 5 Years of experience with databases (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL, DynamoDB)
• 5 Years of experience with messaging queue services (Kafka, Amazon MSK)
• Strong skills in Cloud Architecture, security, and software design
• Understanding of SOLID principles
• Strong technical mentoring & people management skills
• Proficiency in Java or C#
• Experience provisioning Cloud infrastructure via CI/CD
• Must be self-motivated, requiring little direction to achieve a complex goal

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):

• Professional experience architecting and operating cloud-based solutions.
• AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise.
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.
• Experience leading the Scaled Agile - Architecture Runway as a Product Owner
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
• Presentation skills with a high level of comfort speaking with executives and developers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to adapt to new technologies, learn quickly, and manage high ambiguity.
• Experience in medical device software development practices.
• Experience working in Cloud systems that continuously process and store large amounts of data.
• Experience working in Cloud systems that process and store protected data such as PHI.

$178,600 - $359,000 salary plus bonus eligible generally eligible for short-term and long-term financial incentives. Benefits (including but not limited to health, Vision, Dental, 401K, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, Wellbeing Program, Employee Stock Purchase Program). This information reflects the anticipated salary range for this position based on current national data. Actual minimum and maximum may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

About Stryker

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with our customers, is driven to make healthcare better.

The company offers innovative products and services in Medical and Surgical, Neurotechnology, Orthopedics, and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 100 million patients annually.

More information is available at stryker.com