Job Description:

We're hiring an Enterprise Director of Cloud Architecture at Walgreens

Are you passionate about cloud architecture and technology, driving innovation at scale, and making a real impact every day? If so, this opportunity is for you.

Our Enterprise Architecture team is shaping the future of how cloud technology is built, deployed, maintained by our cloud engineering teams and consumed by our patients, patrons, developers, and enterprise practitioners of every kind. And we’re looking for an exceptional architect to help lead the vision.

• Do you thrive at the intersection of strategy and execution?

• Can you design and implement cloud-native solutions that enable speed, agility, and security at scale?

• Are you excited about driving opinionated cloud architectures that balance maximum performance and flexibility with strong governance?

• Are you passionate about partnering with others to enable an amazing cloud experience?

At Walgreens we are redefining how the cloud is leveraged in a regulated health industry context and an enterprise-scale environment, using Azure Public Cloud and modern DevOps practices to accelerate our innovation. You’ll work alongside an incredible team of engineers and leaders, solving complex challenges and shaping the cloud usage model across the company.

Key Responsibilities:

• Experience with enterprise and hybrid cloud architecture disciplines.

• Experience with hybrid cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) including cloud platform to on premises data center integrations.

• Strong interpersonal and excellent communication skills to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels both inside and outside of the EA organization.

• Leadership and team management abilities.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple simultaneous work streams.

• Desire to influence the cloud strategy for a Fortune 50 company.

• Desire to lead large-scale cloud transformation efforts.

• Desire to work in a team that values thought leadership, collaboration, and innovation.

• Desire to be part of a culture that champions growth, learning, and meaningful impact.

About Walgreens

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

Job ID: 1576115BR

Title: Enterprise Director of Cloud Architecture (Azure)

Company Indicator: Walgreens

Employment Type:

Job Function: Information Technology

Full Store Address: 104 WILMOT RD,DEERFIELD,IL 60015

Full District Office Address: 104 WILMOT RD,DEERFIELD,IL,60015-05121-01104-2

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: Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field with 6 years of combined experience in enterprise architecture, with hands-on experience in designing and implementing large-scale cloud deployments.

• GED or equivalent diploma with 5 years of combined hands-on experience in designing and implementing large-scale cloud deployments and 5 years of enterprise cloud solution architecture experience.

• In-depth knowledge of Azure and related cloud services, design methodologies, and best practices.

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, with the ability to identity potential and resolve complex cloud topology issues.

• Microsoft Certifications such as:

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

• Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)

• Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)or equivalent are highly desirable.

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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