Principal Cloud Architect

Banner Health•Phoenix, AZ

2d•$75 - $125•Remote

About The Position

Banner Health was named to Fortune’s Most Innovative Companies in America 2025 list for the third consecutive year and named to Newsweek's list of Most Trustworthy Companies in America for the second year in a row. We’re proud to be recognized for our commitment to the latest health care advancements and excellent patient care. Banner Health’s Cloud Platform Engineering organization is a place where deep technical mastery meets genuine purpose. As a Principal Cloud Architect will find this opportunity compelling for the technical rigor, organizational impact, and culture of disciplined engineering excellence. The Cloud Platform Engineering team operates as a strategic enabler for the enterprise, delivering a secure, scalable, and fully automated cloud foundation that supports mission‑critical workloads across the organization. Their work spans enterprise‑grade landing zones, standardized IaC patterns, automated governance, and platform capabilities that accelerate delivery while upholding the highest standards of reliability and compliance. The team is composed of deeply skilled architects and engineers who value clarity, precision, and partnership, creating an environment where a senior architect can meaningfully influence cloud strategy, guide architectural direction, and collaborate with peers who share a commitment to building robust, future‑ready platforms. This is a remote position. In this role you would work Monday through Friday normal business hours and can be a remote position if you live in the following states only: AL, AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV & WY. Your pay and benefits (Total Rewards) are important components of your Journey at Banner Health. Banner Health offers a variety of benefit plans to help you and your family. We provide health and financial security options, so you can focus on being the best at what you do and enjoying your life. Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care. POSITION SUMMARY This position is a key member within the Cloud Platform Engineering Organization. Leads cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimize Banner Health’s multi-cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and OCI. The role helps lead the development of Banner’s long-term cloud strategy, ensuring scalability, security, resiliency, and cost-effectiveness across the organization’s cloud systems. Works closely with the Cloud Platform Engineering & Operations and Network Operations departments, Digital Engineering and support stakeholders across departments to lead cloud adoption and migration, enhance cloud maturity, improve performance, implement best practices, and drive cloud-based innovation. Serves as a subject-matter expert and trusted advisor, providing guidance and working closely with IT partners and business units to ensure successful solution delivery on cloud platforms. This position works at the intersection of Digital Transformation and Cloud Modernization to ensure that Banner’s cloud capabilities align with business needs and scale to meet future growth.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent level of education and experience.
At least 15 years of software engineering, digital engineering and application modernization experience, including a minimum of 5 years of experience designing and developing cloud and microservices at scale.
Must also have demonstratable relevant experience optimizing Kubernetes deployed workloads on cloud platform and experience with AI development tools.
Must have experience leading peers in the delivery of enterprise solutions.
Proven experience with platform operating models and product-driven digital engineering.
Hands-on experience designing and scaling digital applications on cloud platforms, preferably AWS and Azure.
Experience with large-scale cloud migrations and modernization initiatives.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering disciplines (i.e., Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, etc.).
Professional level certifications on public cloud platforms (Google, AWS and Azure preferred).
Experience in Healthcare Information Technology is strongly desired.
Deep knowledge of at least one cloud provider between Google, AWS and Azure and working knowledge of other clouds.
Experience with cloud cost optimization.
Experience with specific tools and platforms: Coding / Scripting Languages: Java/J2EE, C#, Python, Ruby, Go Software Development Frameworks: React, Angular, Spring/SpringBoot, .Net Database: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL CI/CD & Version Control: GitLab, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins Artifactory/Container Registries: JFrog, Nexus, Cloudsmith, GitHub Packages Deployment Manager Container Platforms: Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, GKE, RKE, Docker Hub, ECR/ACR Observability: Dynatrace, Splunk, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Datadog, Grafana Security Tools: WIZ, Palo Alto, Tenable, CyberArk, Snyk, Qualys Work Management: ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence
Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Provides strategic and technical oversight in developing, managing, and optimizing multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, OCI). Leads cloud architecture and governance initiatives ensuring scalability and compliance, as well as partnering with Cybersecurity on security, across all platforms.
Designs, develops, and oversees the implementation of service offerings for platform engineering.
Serves as a cloud-native technical resource to determine business needs and recommend solutions across the broader cloud and platform engineering ecosystems. Provides thought leadership in cloud native technologies, DevOps, and platform engineering. Provides insights into the partner ecosystem, advancements and emerging technologies related to Platform Engineering, Automation and Observability.
Implements and maintains secure cloud connectivity solutions (AWS Direct Connect, Azure Express Route, Oracle Fastconnect or Google Cloud Interconnect).
Aligns solutions with standards and best practices, working with cross-functional engineering and business teams. Collaborates with IT team to integrate cloud solutions with on-premises infrastructure that drives innovation.
Ensures resiliency by managing critical disaster recovery and response plans for cloud outages, security events and incidents. Maintains comprehensive documentation, disaster recovery plans, and performs ongoing gap analysis to optimize cloud performance.
Creates and maintains cloud architecture diagrams. Develops and delivers proof of concepts. Contributes to developing the best internal practices and new, innovative, hands-on service offerings that are put into production.
Designs and implements automation tools to enable efficient cloud services deployment and meet business demands.
Provides leadership and mentorship to cloud engineers, ensuring adherence to cloud best practices.