# Director, Architecture

**Company**: Syneos Health
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Syneos Health, a leading life sciences services organization, is seeking a Director of Architecture. The successful candidate will serve as the enterprise cloud design authority, owning architecture decisions, standards, and guardrails across all cloud environments.

**Job Summary** The Director Cloud Architecture will define cloud architecture strategy and reference architecture, establish availability, dependency, resiliency, and disaster recovery patterns upfront, and translate architectural intent into enforceable guardrails through policy as code.

**Core Responsibilities**

- Own cloud architecture strategy, reference architectures, and engineering standards across Azure/AWS/GCP/OCI and hybrid environments, with strong PaaS patterns and guidance.

- Define resiliency, disaster recovery, security, availability, and dependency patterns upfront and socialize them through clear design artifacts.

- Translate architectural intent into enforceable guardrails, including policy as code, blueprinting, and paved-road patterns that reduce variation and rework.

- Review and shape platform and product designs in partnership with Engineering and Infrastructure, ensuring alignment to standards and documented risk tradeoffs.

- Establish and run consistent architecture governance, including design reviews, decision records, exception process, and lifecycle updates to standards.

- Lead dependency modeling and risk assessments for critical services, driving pragmatic recommendations that balance resiliency, cost, performance, and delivery timelines.

- Define cloud landing-zone and platform guardrails and ensure they are adoptable by delivery teams.

- Influence through standards: coach teams, create reusable templates and reference implementations, and drive alignment without becoming a delivery bottleneck.

**Additional Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

- Deep multi-cloud architecture experience, including strong PaaS exposure and experience designing secure, scalable platform patterns.

- Demonstrated credibility as a design authority across engineering and operations teams, with a track record of driving adoption of standards and reference architectures.

- Strong grasp of resiliency engineering, disaster recovery, availability patterns, dependency modeling, and risk tradeoffs.

- Hands-on experience translating architecture into enforceable guardrails.

- Strong security architecture fundamentals and familiarity with regulated/audit-driven environments.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence through standards, coach teams, and align stakeholders on architectural decisions.

**Benefits** Syneos Health offers a range of benefits, including career development and progression, supportive and engaged line management, technical and therapeutic area training, peer recognition, and total rewards program.

## Skills

### Required
- cloud architecture
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP
- OCI
- PaaS
- resiliency engineering
- disaster recovery
- security architecture
- policy as code

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