Principal Cloud Engineering Architect

Job Title: Principal Cloud Engineering Architect Evinova

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to connect strategy with cloud engineering to accelerate how life-changing medicines reach patients with Evinvoa? Do you thrive on shaping reusable patterns that scale securely across an enterprise while mentoring engineers to do their best work?

In this principal architect role, you will set the blueprint for how we build and operate multi-tenant platforms on AWS. You will guide developer teams in Barcelona, align DevOps with business goals, and embed security and compliance into everything we deliver. Your impact will be felt in faster, safer product delivery and technology choices that stand up to the demands of a global, highly regulated environment.

You will bring a well-rounded attitude, joining dots between future technology trends, business needs, solution development and ways of working. Working across functions, you will help change how teams collaborate, standardize, and innovate, creating cloud foundations that enable our science and operations to move at pace.

Accountabilities:
Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Provide hands-on guidance to developer teams in Barcelona, ensuring their technology needs are met while adhering to enterprise standards. Foster a culture of learning and collaboration and lead the adoption of AWS CDK and cloud automation standard methodologies.

Scalable Multi-tenant Architecture: Architect and manage AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK, designing modular, maintainable codebases and building multi-tenant platforms that scale reliably across products and regions.

Reusable Patterns and Standards: Develop and promote reusable cloud architecture patterns to accelerate best-practice adoption across the enterprise, reducing duplication and improving consistency and speed.

Multi-functional Alignment: Partner with product management, security and other partners to align DevOps strategies with business outcomes, ensuring cohesive development and operational workflows.

Embedded Security and Compliance: Implement DevSecOps best practices, including IAM security, encryption standards, and compliance with GXP, GDPR, HIPAA and NIST, so platforms are secure by design and audit-ready.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and methodologies, recommending pragmatic improvements that keep our cloud architecture innovative, efficient and fit for purpose.

Risk Management: Identify risks associated with technology decisions and design mitigation strategies that balance speed, safety and business priorities.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Proven experience providing technical leadership and guidance to developer teams, including distributed teams in Barcelona.
• Deep expertise in AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and standard methodologies for cloud automation.
• Track record architecting and managing scalable, multi-tenant AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK, with modular and maintainable codebases.
• Ability to develop and promote reusable cloud architecture patterns to accelerate best-practice adoption across an enterprise.
• Experience partnering with product management and security to align DevOps strategies with business goals and ensure cohesive workflows.
• Hands-on implementation of DevSecOps guidelines including IAM security, encryption standards, and compliance with GXP, GDPR, HIPAA and NIST.
• Experience evaluating emerging technologies and methodologies to recommend improvements to the technology stack.
• Strength in identifying technology risks and developing mitigation strategies aligned with business goals.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience with containers, Kubernetes and serverless architectures on AWS.
• Expertise in multi-account governance, landing zones, and infrastructure-as-code patterns beyond CDK (e.g., Terraform).
• Background working in global, highly regulated environments with audit readiness.
• Ability to drive cost optimization, reliability engineering and observability practices at scale.
• Influence and leadership in communities of practice to set and evolve enterprise standards.
• Fluency in English; Spanish language skills to support collaboration with Barcelona teams.
• Prior experience mentoring architects and shaping cloud architecture roadmaps.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility.

Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why Evinvoa

Here, you will architect on industry-leading technologies while collaborating across fields to turn sophisticated needs into secure, scalable cloud solutions that speed scientific and operational progress. We bring a diverse set of minds together to explore emerging trends, understand the impact on people and processes, and shape practical patterns that uplift capability across the enterprise, all with a clear line of sight to patient benefit. We value kindness alongside ambition, and we back bold ideas with the support and trust needed to make them real.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.