Associate Director - Platform Engineering

Alcon is looking to hire a Tech Lead for our Surgical Smart Solutions Cloud Platform Services team to lead talented engineers in designing and building our next-gen health care delivery platform.

At Alcon, we aspire to lead the world in innovating life-changing vision products because when people see brilliantly, they live brilliantly. As a global leader in eye care, we believe in innovating especially through cutting edge technology. We are on a journey to offer the widest array of eye care and eye health offerings with products that can treat the entire eye at each stage of life.

Our Surgical Smart Solutions team is responsible for building the cloud-based Digital Health Solutions (DHS) platform. This includes user-centric solutions such as SMARTCataract that help eye care professionals operate with greater efficiency, flexibility, and accuracy.

As a Tech Lead, you will lead a team of engineers to build our cloud platform solutions and work closely with our product teams while interacting with leaders across the business. We are a new and fast-growing team which will give you the opportunity to shape our ways of working and culture - think start-up, but inside a global leader in eye care.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of engineers to design, build, and operate highly scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure platform.

• Design proof-of-concept solutions, architectural diagrams, and specifications in response to business needs, and align technical stakeholders.

• Develop and implement cloud platform strategies, architecture, and best practices to ensure the cloud services are highly available, secure, and cost-effective.

• Collaborate with products teams, and vendors to integrate cloud platform services with our suite of Surgical Smart solutions.

• Collaborate with the Solution Architect to create a modular, scalable solution that addresses/incorporates future architectural changes and design.

• Define standards and guide technical teams on technology strategy related to coding quality standards, continuous integration, an automated deployment.

• Constantly look for better ways of solving technical problems and designing the platform solution, not afraid to challenge status quo.

• Participate in design and sprint reviews to shape the trajectory of technology products.

Preferred Experiences:

• 10+ years of relevant work experience

• Experience working in SaaS and cloud native environments, container, and virtualization technologies, with ability to design, deploy, and manage cloud-based solutions and deep understanding of cloud computing technologies/platforms

• Proficiency in multiple programming languages, application frameworks, and software development methodologies with excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills

• Experience with modern front-end frameworks (AngularJS, React, etc.) and developing responsive SPAs using web frameworks

• Strong analytical and modelling skills and experience with data analytics tools to analyze and visualize data

• Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards like HL7, FHIR, and DICOM

  

Total Rewards

Alcon’s Total Rewards programs are designed to align to incentives with business goals, encourage the right values and behaviors, and deliver long-term value.  The first layer of our rewards program is compensation.  We offer a combination of fixed pay and variable pay, which includes short-term incentives, and long-term incentives for eligible population.  Our benefits program provides security for life events through life and disability insurance, supports savings for retirement, promotes good health and well-being and supports associates and their families during times of illness.  To learn more about Alcon’s Corporate Social Responsibility including our Total Rewards, click here

  

Pay Range

$132,560.00 - $198,840.00

  

Pay Frequency

Annual

  

Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. Alcon takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment and our policies are not to discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of r