Senior Architect, IT Cloud

Innovation starts from the heart. At Edwards Lifesciences, we are dedicated to developing ground-breaking technologies with a genuine impact on patients’ lives. At the core of this commitment is our investment in innovative information technology. This supports our innovation and collaboration on a global scale, enabling our diverse teams to optimize both efficiency and success. As part of our IT team, your expertise and commitment will help facilitate our patient-focused mission by developing and enhancing technological solutions.

Lead IT system architecture, design solutions, manage vendors, software contracts and projects focused on cloud infrastructure and IP protection

You will make an impact by:

• Evaluate new IT technologies and build effective solutions for NPD

• Architect end-to-end solutions using Cloud services and microservices (e.g., IoT and Container Services) and partner with key stakeholders (e.g., BU) to evaluate business needs

• Develop configuration management/application deployment using tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, and/or Chef) for assigned software products

• Perform complex software code review for products and may verify review of from team members

• Lead in streamlining IT Business processes impacting NPD

• Manage vendor relationship and harmonize needs across all stakeholders

• Other duties as assigned by Management: Provide coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer to other team members

What you’ll need (Required):

Bachelor's Degree in related field, related experience Required.

10 years of related experience

What else we look for (Preferred):

• Demonstrated experience with best of Breed Solutions, Cloud Infrastructure and Software solutions

• Demonstrated experience with two or more of the following: AWS S3, Redshift, Azure DW, Azure blob Storage

• Experience with system engineering for combined hardware, software systems

• Proficiency with software tools for requirements management, engineering analysis, and statistical analysis.

• Demonstrated technical project management skills on multi-year projects with multi-functional teams

• Familiarity with container and resource management technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Apache Mesos preferred

• Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives

• Recognized as an expert in own area within the organization while applying broad-based technical expertise and has full knowledge of other related disciplines

• Expert knowledge of Azure IaaS components like VMs, Virtual networks, Storage and PaaS components like App Service, Serverless computing, Storage

• Expert knowledge of IaC toolsets such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Powershell etc.

• Ability to do Code Review for all Cloud Automation Scripts mostly written in Python, CloudFormation, Powershell etc

• Strict attention to detail

• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization

• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company collaborates with the world's leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards Lifesciences has extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America and Asia and currently employs over 15,000 individuals worldwide.

For us, helping patients is not a slogan - it's our life's work. From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.