Azure Engineer/Architect

Job Summary:

Consultant Advisor, ERP Michael Cooper is recruiting this position.

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100% Remote, Contract

Overview

Our healthcare client is seeking a highly experienced Cloud Application Architect with deep healthcare expertise to lead the modernization and migration of core clinical and third-party applications onto Azure and AWS platforms. This role is responsible for designing, validating, and guiding cloud architectures that improve reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency for hospital and health-system environments.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Epic, Cerner, and major ancillary healthcare systems, understands the complexities of EMR/EHR ecosystems, and has delivered multiple cloud migration or data-center modernization initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Design

• Lead the end-to-end application architecture for healthcare cloud migrations across Azure and AWS.
• Architect secure, highly available, compliant solutions for Epic, Cerner, and critical third-party systems (lab, radiology, cardiology, ERP, PACS, HIM, integration engines, etc.).
• Define cloud landing zones, network topology, IAM, encryption, tagging, FinOps structure, and disaster recovery patterns aligned to HITECH, HIPAA, HITRUST, and cloud provider best practices.
• Partner with infrastructure, security, clinical application owners, and data teams to design future-state integrations across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid workloads.

Healthcare Application Modernization

• Lead application assessments, migration strategies, and readiness analysis for hospital portfolios.
• Identify modernization patterns (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, replace) for both clinical and non-clinical apps.
• Develop data-migration, integration, and high-availability strategies for EMR and ancillary systems.
• Collaborate with clinical informatics teams to ensure workflow continuity, minimal downtime, and robust cutover plans.

Migration Execution & Delivery

• Serve as a senior technical lead during migration waves, working with engineering, application teams, and system integrators.
• Guide the buildout of cloud environments, including compute, storage, networking, security controls, databases, containers, and serverless.
• Provide technical oversight for pilot migrations, proofs of concept, and rapid prototyping.
• Ensure all migration activities follow compliance and regulatory standards, with validated testing and rollback plans.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Act as a liaison between cloud engineering, clinical applications, business partners, and external vendors.
• Translate complex technical designs into executive-level communication for CIO, CMIO, CTO, and CISO audiences.
• Support program governance, architectural reviews, risk mitigation planning, and value realization tracking.

Required Qualifications

• 7–10+ years in enterprise application architecture, cloud architecture, or healthcare IT engineering.
• Proven experience supporting or integrating Epic, Cerner, or another major EMR/EHR system.
• Demonstrated experience migrating clinical and ancillary applications to Azure and/or AWS.
• Strong understanding of:
  • Healthcare interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR, CCD, X12)
  • HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST 800-53, SOC2 controls
  • High-availability and disaster-recovery design in regulated environments
• Hands-on deployment experience with:
  • Azure (VMs, App Services, AKS, Managed SQL, Storage, ExpressRoute)
  • AWS (EC2, RDS, EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, VPC, FSx for Windows, Direct Connect)
• Expertise in migration tooling and frameworks (Azure Migrate, AWS Migration Hub, CloudEndure, Zerto, HCX, database replication tools).
• Strong experience designing or supporting core clinical systems (Epic, Cerner) and third-party apps (PACS, Lab, Radiology, Pharmacy, ERP, RevCycle, imaging, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering full hospital or IDN cloud migrations (Epic-in-Cloud, Cerner-in-Cloud, hybrid deployments).
• Cloud certifications:
  • AWS Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
  • Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Background in healthcare provider environments (Hospitals, IDNs, Academic Medical Centers).
• Experience designing cloud architectures for:
  • High-performance databases
  • Real-time integrations and message buses
  • Observability and monitoring (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, New Relic)
• Knowledge of FinOps principles to support cost-efficient architecture decisions.
• Experience with VMware, VCF, or large data-center migration tooling.

Soft Skills

• Strong communication and stakeholder management across clinical, operational, and technical domains.
• Ability to translate clinical workflows into technical requirements.
• Excellent documentation and presentation skills (Visio, LucidChart, PowerPoint).
• Highly collaborative, with a consultative mindset and experience in large program environments.

To learn more about this and other positions, contact Michael Cooper at or michael.cooper@healthcareitleaders.com. Healthcare IT Leaders is a national leader in IT workforce solutions, connecting healthcare provider, payer and life sciences organizations with experienced technology talent for consulting and full-time hiring. For more information, visit us on the web at www.healthcareitleaders.com.