Come and help our internal clients transform their businesses by providing architecture, best practice guidance and access to cutting edge capabilities in their journey through the public cloud.  

You'll design and develop secure, resilient and cost-effective public cloud solutions and standards, to help our internal business units get their products to market more effectively.  Another key focus will be to build strategies and develop frameworks ensuring best practices are deployed, allowing the business units to develop and deploy their products, while maintaining the centralized governance around architecture, operations, security and FinOpsProgram and project progress reporting.

What you'll do in this role

• Creating best practice architecture for Azure and AWS IaaS/PaaS solutions based on requirements 
• Development and implementation of cloud security architectures on the Azure cloud.
• Work closely with senior staff for developing new security strategies and designs.
• Collaborate with colleagues to support and improve security architecture, systems, processes, standards and tools.
• Lead technical discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, and high availability in the cloud
• Design highly scalable and resilient cloud-based environments and work with operations to deploy
• Participate in Architectural Review Boards, Technical Design Authorities and virtual communities, working hand in hand with other Enterprise Architects and Operations teams.
• Develop the tools and techniques necessary to design automated deployments using a DevOps approach
• Help to develop centralized tooling and infrastructure for monitoring availability, performance, security and cost
• Guide and mentor operational teams, and provide them a technical escalation point
• Conduct regular reviews to ensure best practices are being followed
• Build and maintain strong relationships with our internal clients and help them progress through their adoption of Cloud
• Support ongoing reviews with stakeholders for cloud optimization and best practices around use of cloud technologies (ex:auto-scaling, de-provisioning)
• Assisting clients in adhering to governance and controls
• Assisting clients and management in creating trend and variance analysis of cloud spend
• Participate and innovate in the ongoing development of Cloud offerings and procedures
• Educate and elevate the capability of other engineers, analysts, and management
• Operate in a highly cross-functional environment focused on a great customer experience
• Bring the initiative to break down silos and remove impedances to progress

What we're ideally looking for

• Bachelor's degree (in Computer Science, Math or Engineering)
• Microsoft Azure Architect certifications (AZ-303 + AZ-304) + Azure security engineer certification exam, AZ-500
• 5+ years of experience designing and supporting public cloud environments, including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, public/hybrid/private cloud solutions. 
• Experience implementing AWS and Azure ‘Well-Architected Frameworks’ and the ability to apply / adjust the concepts to customer environments
• Deep experience of AWS and Azure services and platforms inclusive of DevOps, Automation and Orchestration 
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts and influence decisions across to multiple levels of audience, both technical and executive
• The ability to lead and be a team player across dynamic environments and cross-functional groups of teammates and client stakeholders.
• Experience with cloud spend, financial reporting and cost optimization

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com

At IQVIA, we believe that diversity, inclusion, and belonging empower our mission to accelerate innovation for a healthier world. We create a culture of belonging by valuing the perspectives of all talented employees worldwide and providing them with the opportunity to power smarter healthcare for everyone, everywhere. When our talented employees bring their authentic selves and their diverse experiences to work, they enable us to accomplish extraordinary things. Multifaceted thought processes spark innovation. Multi-talented collaboration harnesses innovation to deliver superior outcomes.