Enterprise Director of Cloud Architecture (Azure)
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Location: Deerfield, IL 60015
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Job Description
Job Summary
This team is leveraging the most advanced and exciting technologies to service the 13,100 plus pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing retails stores Worldwide. As a Director, you will lead other Architects and set technical strategy for WBA. In addition, other activities would be to facilitate and lead a team in the design, development, integration and deployment of various technologies in support of WBA's efforts. The position requires the individual to join an dynamic team setting working on Team Member and Customer facing solutions for a fortune 50 organization. As such, you must be a self-starter, a quick learner, and have the ability to innovate and communicate proactively across the organization. The role promotes working with a team and others around the enterprise on mutually beneficial solutions while challenging any complacency or lack of ownership. The candidates should be able to encourage others, continuously learn themselves, apply modern technical approaches and set a high standard for delivery of solutions. The role is strategic and requires applying independent judgment, encourages innovation and promotes a generalist mindset. Key activities will consist of aligning the IT organization with standard set of technologies and frameworks, while keeping relevant with new capabilities in the marketplace. You must have an interest in anticipating challenges and creating alternative courses of action.
Job Responsibilities
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations, and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni-channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients' care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.
The actual salary an employee can expect to receive, plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable, will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law. To review benefits, please visit jobs.walgreens.com/benefits More Company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com
External Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Job Summary
This team is leveraging the most advanced and exciting technologies to service the 13,100 plus pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing retails stores Worldwide. As a Director, you will lead other Architects and set technical strategy for WBA. In addition, other activities would be to facilitate and lead a team in the design, development, integration and deployment of various technologies in support of WBA's efforts. The position requires the individual to join an dynamic team setting working on Team Member and Customer facing solutions for a fortune 50 organization. As such, you must be a self-starter, a quick learner, and have the ability to innovate and communicate proactively across the organization. The role promotes working with a team and others around the enterprise on mutually beneficial solutions while challenging any complacency or lack of ownership. The candidates should be able to encourage others, continuously learn themselves, apply modern technical approaches and set a high standard for delivery of solutions. The role is strategic and requires applying independent judgment, encourages innovation and promotes a generalist mindset. Key activities will consist of aligning the IT organization with standard set of technologies and frameworks, while keeping relevant with new capabilities in the marketplace. You must have an interest in anticipating challenges and creating alternative courses of action.
Job Responsibilities
- Develops and executes on Technology strategies and plans. Directs the operations of the
- assigned functional area to achieve strategic and operational business goals and targeted
- financial and content quality results. Establishes operational objectives for managers and/or teams of professionals in order to achieve the strategic and operational objectives of the group. Responsible for executing on functional and business goals for the specified area of expertise. Proactively addresses problems a cross functional areas of the business.
- Leads the creation of or creates design documents that ensure consistency in architecture and/or development across the IT organization. Leads the definition of infrastructure and/or software architecture to ensure that the Technology organization's solutions are built within a consistent framework.
- Leads the decision-making processes related to the selection of IT architecture solutions.
- Leads teams and architects on timely and accurate delivery of new features or technical improvements.
- Develops the technical strategy and vision on assigned projects with internal and external stakeholders.
- Implements and improves core architecture, infrastructure and/or software. Participates in improving infrastructure and/or software development lifecycle, technical operations and technology innovation.
- Develops technical / business approaches and new or enhanced technical tools.
- Shares highly complex information related to areas of expertise and/or to gain acceptance of new or enhanced technology / business solutions.
- Anticipates and prevents problems and roadblocks before they occur.
- Serves as a technical and business-savvy resource to software engineering personnel on a wide range of software design issues.
- Manages and mentors less experienced members of the team. Leads teams / projects and implementations.
- Provides subject matter expertise to less experienced team members. May participate in teaching and training members of work team.
- Maintaining organization reputation while potentially representing Technology in internal or external forums
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations, and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni-channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients' care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.
The actual salary an employee can expect to receive, plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable, will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law. To review benefits, please visit jobs.walgreens.com/benefits More Company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com
External Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of experience in a technical engineering and/or architecture role OR High school / GED and at least 11 years of experience in a technical engineering and/or architecture role
- At least 6 years of experience developing and implementing Architecture
- Experience in domain-specific architecture concepts and emerging technologies, such as Infrastructure, Network design, compute/storage, design patterns, , frameworks, mobile and current application architectures, mobile device architectures.
- Experience creating and promoting guiding development principles and influencing development teams, business users and management in adoption of technical solutions.
- Experience in at least one of the following platforms, languages and/or related frameworks: Windows, Android, nix, Java, NodeJS (JavaScript, TypeScript)
- Experience in at least one of the following Cloud providers: Azure, GCP, AWS
- At least 5 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
- At least 5 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross functional team leadership.
- Willing to travel up to/at least 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, computer science, or related field
- Master's degree