Director – AWS Cloud, Healthcare Solutions

Role Overview

• Define and champion the long-term cloud strategy and technical roadmap for all healthcare-focused applications and data platforms on AWS.
• Collaborate closely with executive leadership, clinical operations, and IT teams to translate business needs into technical cloud solutions that deliver measurable value.
• Drive the adoption of emerging AWS technologies (e.g., Generative AI via SageMaker, Serverless computing, specialized services like AWS HealthLake) to modernize legacy systems.
• Provide architectural governance over solution designs, ensuring they are secure, cost-optimized, high-performing, and resilient, adhering to AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Act as the final authority ensuring all data storage, processing, and transmission within AWS environments are strictly compliant with healthcare regulations (e.g., HIPAA, HITECH, SOC 2).
• Implement and manage FinOps practices to monitor, forecast, and optimize cloud spending (e.g., Reserved Instances, Compute Savings Plans) across the entire AWS footprint.
• Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of Cloud Architects, DevOps Engineers, and Data Engineers.
• Ensure the consistent, on-time delivery of AWS projects, utilizing Agile and DevOps methodologies (CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy).
• Manage relationships with AWS account teams and third-party vendors to maximize service utilization and support.
• Understand the architecture and integration requirements for clinical data systems (EMR/EHR, Lab Information Systems, Patient Portals).
• Oversee solutions for complex healthcare data formats, standards, and exchange protocols (HL7, FHIR).
• Direct the implementation of data lakes (AWS S3) and analytics solutions (AWS Redshift, Glue, Athena) to enable predictive modeling, population health management, and operational reporting.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive experience in Information Technology, with at least 4 years in a leadership/Director role focused on Cloud Architecture and Delivery.
• Extensive, hands-on experience designing and managing enterprise-scale solutions across core AWS services (S3, EC2, Lambda, EKS, RDS/Aurora, Redshift, Glue, SageMaker).
• Deep operational and regulatory knowledge of the U.S. Healthcare industry, including payer, provider, or pharmaceutical sectors.
• Proven track record of architecting and deploying solutions that meet HIPAA/HITECH security and privacy requirements.

Tech Stack

• Amazon Redshift
• AWS
• Cloud
• EC2