Director, Cloud Transformation

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About this Role

The Director of Cloud Transformation is a senior technical leadership role within QCOIT, responsible for accelerating Quanta’s migration from on-premise infrastructure to a cloud-native operating model. This role is central to Quanta’s IT transformation strategy: transitioning routine infrastructure operations to managed service providers (MSPs) while building modern, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud capabilities that unlock the full potential of AI, data analytics, and custom application development across the enterprise.

This individual will lead application modernization efforts using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code), architect cloud-native solutions on AWS and Azure, and build the observability and DevOps practices required to run enterprise applications with minimal administrative overhead. The role requires a unique blend of deep technical expertise, strategic program leadership, and the ability to operate effectively in a complex, multi-operating-company

What You'll Do

Application Modernization & AI-Assisted Development

• Lead the modernization of legacy applications across the Quanta enterprise, transforming on-premise workloads into cloud-native architectures that deliver orders-of-magnitude cost improvements and operational simplification.
• Pioneer the use of AI-assisted development tools—specifically Claude Code and similar platforms—to dramatically reduce modernization timelines and costs, making previously uneconomical technical debt remediation now viable.
• Develop and maintain a modernization playbook with repeatable patterns for common application archetypes found across Quanta’s 85+ operating companies, including ERP integrations, field operations tools, and business intelligence platforms.
• Evaluate applications in the enterprise portfolio (1,300+ application instances) to identify and prioritize modernization candidates based on business value, technical debt, and cloud-readiness.

Cloud-Native Architecture & Design

• Serve as the enterprise’s foremost authority on cloud-native architecture, with deep expertise in serverless computing (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, DynamoDB), container orchestration (ECS/EKS), and event-driven design patterns.
• Design reference architectures that bring the full benefits of cloud computing—including auto-scaling, pay-per-use economics, built-in high availability, and zero-server management—to Quanta’s application portfolio.
• Architect solutions across Quanta’s multi-cloud environment: AWS (primary for new workloads and AI/data platforms), Azure (enterprise infrastructure and M365 ecosystem), and OCI (Oracle Exadata for critical databases).
• Establish cloud design standards, patterns, and guardrails that enable operating companies to build and deploy applications within a governed framework while maintaining the agility they need.

Observability, Monitoring & Operational Excellence

• Build and operationalize a comprehensive observability strategy using enterprise-grade monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace, Datadog, and/or AWS CloudWatch to ensure cloud-native applications meet enterprise requirements for availability, performance, security, and compliance.
• Design monitoring architectures that minimize administrative overhead—leveraging automated alerting, self-healing capabilities, and intelligent anomaly detection to reduce the need for manual intervention.
• Define and enforce service-level objectives (SLOs) and operational readiness standards (the “ilities”: reliability, scalability, observability, security, maintainability, recoverability) f