Senior Director Cloud Engineering (m/f/*)

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Job Description:

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Senior Director of AWS Cloud Engineering, you will lead our cloud strategy, architecture, and operations with a strong focus on scalability, security, compliance, and performance. You will drive our application adoption and optimization of AWS services, ensuring our platforms meet the unique demands of healthcare applications, regulatory requirements, and mission-critical workloads.

The ideal candidate is both visionary and execution-focused - comfortable defining long-term strategy, building high-performance engineering teams, and partnering with business and product leaders to deliver secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud solutions.

Key responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Own the enterprise AWS cloud strategy, architecture, and operational roadmap.
• Partner with product, engineering, and security leaders to ensure cloud platforms meet healthcare, regulatory, and business needs.
• Drive cloud innovation and adoption of AWS capabilities to improve agility, cost efficiency, and scalability.

Cloud Architecture & Operations

• Oversee design and deployment of secure, highly available, and compliant AWS-based infrastructure.
• Ensure infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and automation best practices (CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK) are embedded across the organization.
• Establish robust disaster recovery, high availability, and performance optimization frameworks.
• Optimize cloud spend through effective cost governance and resource utilization strategies.

Healthcare & Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure all AWS environments meet or exceed HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and other applicable compliance frameworks.
• Lead security and privacy-by-design practices across cloud engineering initiatives.
• Collaborate with compliance and legal teams on regulatory audits, certifications, and attestations.

Team Leadership & Development

• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing cloud engineering team.
• Promote a culture of innovation, learning, and operational excellence.
• Drive professional growth opportunities for engineers in AWS specialization areas.

Continuous Improvement 

• Stay updated on emerging technologies and assess their applicability to enhance the company’s offerings. 
• Establish processes for evaluating and adopting new tools, frameworks, and methodologies. 
• Strategically retire technical debt

Your Skills and Expertise 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 10+ years in infrastructure, cloud engineering, or platform engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Proven track record leading enterprise-scale AWS architecture, migration, and optimization efforts.
• Experience delivering mission-critical w