Job Summary
As Sr. Engineer Cloud, your role will be to help drive Cloud Architecture Runway tasks, and Cloud Engineering/Architecture reviews. For Architecture Runway, our team assists Platform and Product teams with strong engineering and architecture experience to complete rapid proof of concepts and evaluations to solve challenges or improve on existing processes or tooling. For Cloud Engineering/Architecture reviews, we work with Business Product teams to understand their designs as they move to cloud or look to change their application, while looking at long term infrastructure state drift. You will work closely with our common cloud platform team that manages our IaC product and our security and compliance teams to apply your deep cloud knowledge to advise teams on the best design considerations. You will bring a wide range of Cloud Skills (CI/CD and IaC experience) acting as both an engineer and expert in cloud. You believe in collaboration, where you will be syncing with other members of our Enterprise Cloud Platform Engineering team and engineers and architects across the organization in enterprise architecture, data, security, network and application teams. You have strong communication skills and the ability to partner with others to break through barriers and accelerate adoption of solutions, while driving optimal cost-effective business outcomes. The ability to be a self-starter and work both independently and in a group, as projects evolve, is paramount to your success. This role will require planning, analysis and the ability to learn quickly and translate to action. The ability to pivot based on decisions and outcomes is also critical.
Job Responsibilities
- Engineer and enable enterprise cloud solutions within a DevOps environment
- Influences target state Cloud Architecture, partnering with other areas, such as Cloud Network Architects, Cloud Data Architects, Cloud Solution Architects, Cloud Security Architects, and Cloud Engineering and Development teams.
- Accelerates the adoption of cloud solutions across business units.
- Ensures cloud deployments result in resilient, robust, and compliant systems. May oversee technology assessments, technology strategy reviews, and provide internal consulting to ensure all areas are practicing sound architecture hygiene.
- Translates complex ideas, technology, and programs into languages to which senior management can relate.
- Participates in the development of metrics and scorecards to influence the technology teams on industry best practices for cloud deployments.
- Manages the vendor relationship including determining in scope and out of scope work, working through any interpretation of contract terms and monitoring/reviewing SLA adherence. Performs deep dive research on missed SLAs Partners with the vendor to drive continuous improvement resulting in improved service and/or lower cost.
- Reviews and approves any request prioritizations. Ensures delivery against agreed upon SLAs and overall service delivery of operational activities.
- Manages the vendor relationship including determining in scope and out of scope work, working through any interpretation of contract terms and monitoring/reviewing SLA adherence. Performs deep dive research on missed SLAs Partners with the vendor to drive continuous improvement resulting in improved service and/or lower cost.
- Leads in a fast-paced environment and produces high-quality work under tight deadlines.
- Works with business stakeholders to advise them on available SaaS Services and enterprise agreements.
- Allocates available resources to meet operating objectives. Develops and mentors staff through on-boarding, open communication, training and development opportunities and performance management processes; builds and maintains employee morale and motivation; ensures the team is appropriately staffed with required competencies; fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace.
About Walgreens and WBA :
Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) is included in the U.S. Retail Pharmacy and U.S. Healthcare segments of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader with a 170 year heritage of caring for communities. WBA’s purpose is to create more joyful lives through better health. Operating nearly 9,000 retail locations across America, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Walgreens is proud to be a neighborhood health destination serving nearly 10 million customers each day. Walgreens pharmacists play a critical role in the U.S. healthcare system by providing a wide range of pharmacy and healthcare services, including those that drive equitable access to care for the nation’s medically underserved populations. To best meet the needs of customers and patients, Walgreens offers a true omnichannel experience, with fully integrated physical and digital platforms supported by the latest technology to deliver high quality products and services in communities nationwide.
The actual salary an employee can expect to receive, plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable, will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law. To review benefits, please visit jobs.walgreens.com/benefits
"An Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans".
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 4 years of experience leading complex Software Engineering and Architecture initiatives OR a High School Diploma/GED and at least 7 years of experience leading complex Software Engineering and Architecture initiatives.
- Experience with public cloud architecture, Cloud strategy, networking, security.
- Experience with enterprise applications, IT services, and SaaS solution providers.
- Knowledge of cloud management and cost models with experience implementing best practices or suggested improvements.
- Experience suggesting competitive and innovative technical decisions, obtaining client buy-in and delivering on commitments
- At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial business decisions in the workplace.
- At least 2 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership, and/or cross functional team leadership.
- Willing to travel up to10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
Preferred Qualifications
- Certification: Expert level Microsoft Certification in Engineering or Architecture path
- Experience leading efforts and working with highly technical teams in a matrix organization
- Knowledge of application & data architectures and cloud native patterns for development, and ability to advise both technical and non-technical audiences and present technical ideas in business-friendly language
- Experience leading collaborative teams to achieve common goals
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code “IaC” design, with a focus on Open Tofu or Terraform or similar languages
- Experience in large scale internet-presence companies/technologies, where uptime and continuous availability is core to the business
- Experience identifying and partnering to implement automation opportunities to drive down toil and reduce technical debt
- Experience identifying operational issues and recommending/implementing strategies to resolve problems
- Experience applying standards of cloud compliance to application design to achieve reliability
- Knowledge of Networking and Cloud technologies, for example Security, Load Balancing, Network routing protocols, etc
