Lead Cloud Architect

The Nebraska Medical Center • Omaha, NE

12d • Onsite

About The Position

Are you ready to shape the future of healthcare technology? Nebraska Medicine is seeking a Lead Cloud Architect to drive innovation and security across our enterprise. In this pivotal role, you’ll design and govern cutting-edge cloud and hybrid architectures that power life-saving care. From modernizing infrastructure to ensuring compliance with the highest security standards, you’ll lead strategic initiatives that impact thousands of patients and providers. If you’re passionate about cloud transformation, enterprise resiliency, and mentoring technical teams, this is your opportunity to make a lasting difference—right here in Nebraska and Iowa. The Lead Cloud Architect is responsible for designing and governing secure, scalable infrastructure across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, ensuring all solutions meet resiliency, performance, and security requirements. This role leads the development of enterprise standards, oversees disaster recovery and business continuity planning, and drives modernization initiatives—including cloud adoption, automation, and application migration. The architect collaborates with IT, security, and executive leadership to align technology strategies with business needs, while ensuring compliance with regulatory frameworks such as HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI, and SOC2. Additionally, the position provides architectural leadership for security, innovation, and technology assessment, shaping the organization’s long-term technology direction and mentoring technical teams.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years' experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud architecture, security architecture, or related fields required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field or equivalent combination of education/experience (one year of education equals one year of experience) required.
• Deep expertise in cloud platform architecture (AWS and Azure), hybrid-cloud design patterns, and multi-cloud strategy required.
• Strong knowledge of zero-trust architectures, network security, identity and access management, and secure-by-design principles required.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible; experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms required.
• Experience with virtualization technologies (VMware), containerization (Kubernetes), and cloud-native security frameworks required.
• Demonstrated ability to architect solutions compliant with regulations including HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC2, and PCI required.
• Proven experience leading technology evaluations, vendor assessments, and contract negotiations required.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills with demonstrated ability to influence executives and cross-functional teams required.
• Experience developing technology roadmaps, architectural standards, and governance frameworks required.
• Ability to mentor engineers, architects, and technical teams in modern architecture practices required.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant certifications (CISSP, AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Architect Expert, Terraform, or equivalents) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Designing and governing secure, scalable infrastructure across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
• Ensuring all solutions meet resiliency, performance, and security requirements.
• Leading the development of enterprise standards.
• Overseeing disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Driving modernization initiatives—including cloud adoption, automation, and application migration.
• Collaborating with IT, security, and executive leadership to align technology strategies with business needs.
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory frameworks such as HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI, and SOC2.
• Providing architectural leadership for security, innovation, and technology assessment.
• Shaping the organization’s long-term technology direction and mentoring technical teams.

Benefits

• Leading Health Network Work with the region’s top academic health network, partnering with UNMC to transform lives through education, research, and patient care.
• Dignity and Respect: We value all backgrounds and experiences, reflecting the communities we serve.
• Educational Support Enjoy up to $5,000/year in tuition assistance, a 35% discount at Clarkson College, and career advancement opportunities with covered educational costs.
• Enjoy support for your personal growth within the organization, from those just starting their healthcare careers to those who are years down the path.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees