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Scientific Computing Cloud Architect - RCH Solutions
Cloud Architect
Design and manage scalable scientific computing environments on the cloud, leveraging AWS, HPC frameworks, and containerization to deliver high-performance solutions for life sciences and healthcare research.
About the role
- Embrace Excellence: We strive for best-in-class delivery of innovation and service.
- Be Accountable: Integrity, ownership and accountability are non-negotiable.
- Adventure Together: We are committed to fostering a culture that embraces continuous improvement.
- Succeed as a Team: We believe harnessing the power of a team drives outcomes not achievable by individuals.
- Boundaries and Balance: Work-life balance is a core facet of our culture.
1. Solution Architecture & Strategy
- Lead technical discovery sessions and design reviews
- Translate complex scientific and business requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions
- Define end-to-end cloud architecture strategies for life sciences clients, aligning with business and scientific objectives
- Lead architecture design for hybrid and cloud-native HPC platforms
- Act as a trusted advisor, guiding clients through architecture decisions and industry best practices
- Architect and deploy HPC environments
- Design GPU-enabled architectures
- Optimize for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency across distributed compute systems
- Architect modern data platforms to support scientific and operational workloads
- Data ingestion frameworks (ETL/ELT, streaming pipelines)
- Metadata and lineage management solutions
- Align data platforms to FAIR principles for scientific data usability and reproducibility
- Enable downstream use cases including analytics, AI/ML, and data science
- GxP validation frameworks
- HIPAA data protection requirements
- GDPR privacy and data handling guidelines
- Access controls and IAM strategies
- Data encryption, auditing, and traceability
- Support documentation and validation requirements for regulated workloads
- Act as a trusted advisor to clients
- Facilitate architecture workshops, design reviews, and technical discovery sessions
- Bridge business, scientific, and engineering teams to ensure aligned outcomes
- Provide hands-on guidance during POCs, migrations, and production deployments
- Contribute to solution proposals, roadmaps, and technical strategy development
- Promote automation and infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform, Ansible)
- Performance optimization
- Cost management
- Security and governance
- Mentor engineering teams and support capability development
- 10–12+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure, or platform engineering
- Cloud Professional Certification(s)
- HPC administration (Slurm or similar)
- GPU-enabled computing environments
- Linux system architecture and administration
- Strong experience designing enterprise data platforms and data pipelines
- Data governance, metadata management, and data lifecycle frameworks
- Security and compliance st