Cloud Architect

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott Established Pharmaceutical Division (EPD) is looking for a

Cloud Architect

for its global Pharma Division Headquarters based in Allschwil-Basel.

The AA team is on a mission to reshape the entire EPD division around data-driven decision-making. The Cloud Architect collaborates closely with our Data Science team and our product delivery team to make sure that the applications we deploy are built on a scalable and robust technology stack. These solutions directly transform the way we produce, market and sell our products around the world.

This role focuses on designing and implementing cloud architectures that run AI/GenAI applications in a scalable way across multiple platforms (mobile, web, etc.) used by our stakeholders around the world. You help our Engineering team to streamline or automate cloud infrastructure deployment, to enable other development teams to develop and deploy faster focusing on the application core.

• Design and build, and maintain cloud architectures for scalable, robust AI/GenAI applications across platforms (web, mobile, desktop).
• Leverage cloud-native services to ensure optimal performance, availability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure for latency, throughput, and cost efficiency, leveraging cloud-native monitoring and alerting tools.
• Design and implement load balancing, auto-scaling, and failover strategies to guarantee high availability across all deployed applications.
• Document reference architectures, technical roadmaps, and conduct design reviews with engineering and product teams.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks and automated workflows, making cloud deployment accessible to developers regardless of IaC expertise.
• Implement robust monitoring, security guardrails, and compliance checks to ensure infrastructure changes are safe, reliable, and aligned with production standards.

• Champion secure cloud designs, ensuring compliance with data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements in coordination with our security team.
• Establish observability, monitoring and disaster recovery mechanisms for all AI/GenAI workloads.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience architecting and delivering cloud-native applications, including at least 3 years specializing in AI/ML or GenAI workloads.
• Demonstrated experience with monitoring, optimizing, and troubleshooting cloud infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency using modern observability tools (e.g., Cloud Watch, Prometheus, Datadog).
• Expertise in AWS cloud services (e.g., ECS, EKS, Lambda, Sage Maker, S3, IAM, VPC, Cognito, Step Functions, Cloud Watch).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Open Tofu) and modern Dev Ops practices (CI/CD, OPA, containerization with Docker/Kubernetes).
• AWS Certification (Solutions Architect, Dev Ops Engineer, etc.) a plus.
• Full stack experience a plus.
• Experience supporting global deployments of multi-platform applications (web, mobile, desktop) across geographies (CDN).
• Proven communication skills. Fluency in English a must.
• Passion for transforming organizations through large-scale data.

Do you like the sound of this job and think you’ve got what it takes? Then send us your CV today. We look forward to receiving your application as pdf
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The base pay for this position is N/A.

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY: IT Operations

DIVISION: EPD Established Pharma

LOCATION: Switzerland >
Basel : H-127 A2

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT: Standard

TRAVEL: Not specified

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK

ACTIVITIES:

Not Applicable