Job Profile Name Sr. Manager, Cloud & Middleware Architecture (M)

Alcon•Fort Worth, TX

13h•$168,300 - $217,800•Onsite

About The Position

At Alcon, we're passionate about enhancing sight and helping people see brilliantly. With more than 25,000 associates, we innovate fearlessly, champion progress, and act swiftly to impact global eye health. We foster an inclusive culture, recognizing your contributions and offering opportunities to grow your career like never before. Together, we make a difference in the lives of our patients and customers. Are you ready to join us? Alcon is looking to hire a Senior Manager, Cloud & Middleware Architecture team member. This role is part of Alcon's Information Technology function, a team that delivers cutting-edge technology solutions to Alcon associates and customers to help our people and the world see brilliantly. This role is on-site in our Lake Forest, CA location and a typical day would include: Lead the design and implementation of cloud-based and middleware architectures to enable seamless application integration and ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, and security requirements. Oversee teams responsible for developing scalable, secure, and efficient cloud and middleware solutions, providing mentorship and leadership to foster a culture of innovation and high-quality solution development. Collaborate with senior leadership to align cloud and middleware strategies with business goals and digital transformation objectives, ensuring architecture solutions enhance system interoperability. Directly impact the organization’s ability to leverage cloud and middleware solutions for business agility and operational efficiency. Exercise high-level decision-making authority regarding the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud and middleware systems, aligning technical architecture decisions with organizational goals and digital transformation initiatives. The Solution Architect oversees the definition of the enterprise platform and protocols that should be adopted and supported by the Unity AVS (Alcon Vision Suite) endpoint portfolio of products. He/She will lead Alcon enterprise customer and ophthalmology market integration requirements, define the architectures to be adopted or drive the development of new platform solutions to meet the integration requirements. Backed up by strong technical knowledge, will create training and education strategy and act as a high-level escalation resource for all Alcon products interconnectivity needs, for both internal and customer facing teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +15 yrs; Assoc.+11 yrs; M.S.+4 yrs; PhD+3 yrs)
The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English
7 Years of Relevant Experience
5 Years of Demonstrated Leadership

Responsibilities

Lead the design and implementation of cloud-based and middleware architectures to enable seamless application integration and ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, and security requirements.
Oversee teams responsible for developing scalable, secure, and efficient cloud and middleware solutions, providing mentorship and leadership to foster a culture of innovation and high-quality solution development.
Collaborate with senior leadership to align cloud and middleware strategies with business goals and digital transformation objectives, ensuring architecture solutions enhance system interoperability.
Directly impact the organization’s ability to leverage cloud and middleware solutions for business agility and operational efficiency.
Exercise high-level decision-making authority regarding the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud and middleware systems, aligning technical architecture decisions with organizational goals and digital transformation initiatives.
Oversee the definition of the enterprise platform and protocols that should be adopted and supported by the Unity AVS (Alcon Vision Suite) endpoint portfolio of products.
Lead Alcon enterprise customer and ophthalmology market integration requirements, define the architectures to be adopted or drive the development of new platform solutions to meet the integration requirements.
Create training and education strategy and act as a high-level escalation resource for all Alcon products interconnectivity needs, for both internal and customer facing teams.