Associate Director, Lead Cloud Architect

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

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.

#AICP

We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.

The starting pay range(s) listed above is for full-time employees (FTE). You may also be eligible for additional discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities. We determine starting pay thoughtfully – carefully considering the nature of the role, required skills, work location, schedule and the knowledge and experience you bring. Final compensation is guided by pay equity principles and applicable employment laws. Compensation programs are reviewed on an ongoing basis and may be adjusted over time to reflect evolving market factors, and individual, team or Company performance.

Benefits:

Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, you may be eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefit plans – including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and insurance offerings (medical, dental, vision, life and disability).

U.S.-based exempt employees are eligible for Flexible Time Off (FTO), which provides paid time off without a set accrual limit, subject to manager approval, along with 11 paid company holidays each year.

Non-exempt employees, RayzeBio employees, and employees located in Puerto Rico receive 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires (subject to manager approval), 11 paid company holidays, and 3 optional holidays.

Depending on eligibility, employees may also have access to additional time-off benefits, including paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, and leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, or military needs. Eligible employees also enjoy an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

U.S.-based job seekers can explore full benefit offerings at https://careers.bms.com/benefits

How We Work

Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

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.

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