Lead Cloud Architect

Why UT Southwestern

With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the number 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth according to U.S. News & World Report, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals.

Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you ll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a rewarding career!

JOB SUMMARY

The Lead Cloud Architect will design and implement enterprise-level cloud solutions that align with UT Southwestern’s strategic objectives, ensuring scalability, security, and cost efficiency. This role collaborates with cross-functional teams to integrate cloud technologies, provides technical leadership and mentorship, and drives innovation through multi-cloud and AI adoption. The position requires deep expertise in cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, and compliance standards, with a proven ability to optimize complex environments in an academic medical center setting.

This position does not support H1B visa sponsorship. Incumbent must reside in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex.

UT Southwestern is proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our benefits are designed to support your overall wellbeing, and include:

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

Education
Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Education, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Business, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems, or related field.

Experience
10 years of experience in an enterprise support role and relevant experience designing or supporting resources and services in cloud-based architecture models, to include at least five years experience enabling production workloads in Microsoft, Amazon or Google cloud(s).

Licenses and Certifications
Google Professional Cloud (GPC) architect or
Google Associate Cloud Engineer or
Microsoft Certified:
Azure Fundamentals or
Microsoft Certified:
Azure Administrator Associate or
Microsoft Certified:
Azure Solutions Architect Expert or
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

• Performs evaluations, recommendations and implementations from an on-premises and cloud network perspective in the context of a larger enterprise ecosystem. Contributes meaningfully to the overall IT portfolio strategy.
• Shares blueprints and translate cloud products, services, and capabilities, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to colleagues who represent a wide range of technical acumen.
• Continuously evaluates and optimizes cloud infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Works with stakeholders across the organization to evaluate cloud systems and identify appropriate solutions. Collaborates with executive leadership to demonstrate comprehensive planning details.
• Ensures back-end best practices such as backup, logging, monitoring, configuration, and redundancy are incorporated into standards.
• Stays current on Cloud-provider IAM (Identity and Management) concepts and workflows, authentication integrations, and platform administration.
• Provides specifications and detailed schematics for architecture including standards or reference architectures, in accordance with a vision developed from business requirements.
• May occasionally lead projects or project steps within a broader project or have accountability for ongoing activities or…