Enterprise Cloud Architect

HealthPartners • Bloomington, MN

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

HealthPartners is hiring an Enterprise Cloud Architect. This role is responsible
for defining the overall architecture of HealthPartners’ applications across web
platforms, administrative systems, infrastructure, and data environments. The
Enterprise Application Architect ensures that application development and
enhancements align with HealthPartners’ strategic goals and integrate smoothly
within the broader technical landscape.

This role is responsible for enterprise‑wide cloud and infrastructure
architecture, combining deep Azure expertise with a strong understanding of
on‑premises data center environments to guide the organization’s hybrid
modernization strategy. The architect ensures workload migrations and cloud
deployments align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements,
cost governance goals, and industry best practices, while effectively bridging
on‑prem and cloud platforms. Serving as an enterprise‑level orchestrator, the
role works closely with infrastructure, security, application, data, and digital
teams to embed cloud‑sound patterns early in solution design and guide how
workloads are hosted across health plan, care delivery, and other enterprise
domains.

This is an additional headcount supporting the Enterprise Architecture function.
The role reports to the Director of IT Enterprise Architecture and is part of a
collaborative team of five professionals, including four full-time employees and
one contractor.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• Twelve (12+) years of progressive experience in software engineering, including:
• Four (4) years of MS Azure and infrastructure architecture roles.
• Demonstrated experience integrating AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) to accelerate software development, documentation, or workflows.
• Azure expertise: Deep knowledge of Azure core services (Compute, Networking, Storage, Identity, Security, Monitoring), landing zone design, Azure Policy, and governance frameworks.
• Experience designing and reviewing architectures across multiple Azure workload types (IaaS, PaaS, containers, serverless, data platform).
• Experience with hybrid cloud architectures - connecting on-premises environments to Azure via ExpressRoute, VPN, or Azure Arc.
• Demonstrated understanding of cloud security architecture - identity, network segmentation, data protection, and compliance controls.
• Business engagement skills: Demonstrated ability to engage business and operational stakeholders - translating infrastructure and cloud decisions into business terms, facilitating investment conversations, and ensuring delivery outcomes align with business intent.
• Familiarity with Event Driven Architectural models and approaches.
• Familiarity with database technology and modeling
• Experience with Build and Release Management Tools
• Effective communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences using verbal and written forms.
• Excellent troubleshooting and diagnostic skills

Nice To Haves

• Data center infrastructure knowledge: Demonstrated experience with enterprise data center technologies - server virtualization (VMware or Hyper-V), SAN/NAS storage, data center networking (switching, routing, load balancing), and physical facility concepts (power, cooling, redundancy) is strongly preferred.
• Experience in healthcare IT environments (payer, provider, or health system).
• Knowledge of AI/ML platform services in Azure and responsible AI architecture patterns.
• Microsoft Azure certifications: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• FinOps Foundation certification or demonstrated FinOps program experience.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate project architectures for adherence to cloud best practices, security posture, and cost efficiency.
• Conduct cloud architecture assessments for major programs and ensure alignment to the Azure Well-Architected Framework (reliability, security, cost optimization, operational excellence, performance efficiency).
• Partners with Technical Infrastructure Services to develop, analyze, assess, and optimize capacity, availability, utilization, and effectiveness of system functionality.
• Identify architectural risks associated with cloud sprawl, shadow IT, misconfiguration, cost overruns, and drive remediation roadmaps.
• Partner with FinOps, finance, and business stakeholders to establish cloud cost management practices - tagging standards, budget alerting, reserved instance strategy, and rightsizing governance.
• Guides the direction of major developments or enhancements within the framework of HealthPartners’ application architecture.
• Review architecture proposals for cost efficiency and provide recommendations on service selection to optimize total cost of ownership.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity to ensure cloud architecture meets HIPAA, HITRUST, and HealthPartners security standards.
• Define and maintain reference architecture for on-premises and co-location data center environments.
• Provide architectural oversight for server virtualization platforms and assess rationalization opportunities as workloads migrate to Azure.
• Validate throughout planning and delivery that cloud and infrastructure solutions align with what the business needs - identifying misalignment between business intent and technical scope before it affects delivery outcomes.
• Participate in initiative discovery and portfolio planning.
• Conducts and coordinates research activities on leading edge and emerging technologies.
• Performs other work as assigned.

Benefits

• Benefits Designed to Support Your Total Health
• As a HealthPartners colleague, we’re committed to nurturing your diverse talents, valuing your dedication, and supporting your work-life balance. We offer a comprehensive range of benefits to support every aspect of your life, including health, time off, retirement planning, and continuous learning opportunities. Our goal is to help you thrive physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially, so you can continue delivering exceptional care.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees