Senior Director - Architecture, Digital Platform Engineering - ResMed Inc

Senior Director - Architecture, Digital Platform Engineering

Digital Health Technology team powers digital experiences and engagement to enhance the lives of millions of people every day through connected care. We build, deliver, and manage a portfolio of data management platforms and mobile offerings in support of our core businesses. We thrive on simple and elegant architecture and agility. You’ll be immersed in a dynamic high-growth environment and empowered to excel, take informed risks, and drive ingenuity across the enterprise.

This position is open to candidates from a base of San Diego or Sydney.

Let’s talk about the team and you:

The Digital Platform Engineering team is focused on building world-class platforms in the cloud, with capabilities and processes that enable our engineers to focus on delivering innovative customer-facing features. Our digital platform serves a variety of internal and external developers and services by creating secured paved roads for our cloud assets, building fully automated CICD pipelines, and enabling fast experimentation for our data science services.

As a Senior Director of Architecture – Digital Platforms Engineering at ResMed, you will provide the global vision, rationale, and recommendations to leadership and teams for challenging technical issues related to building and improving the digital platform. Our digital platform includes Global Data and AI Platform, Developer Experience, Identity and Integrations Platforms. You understand key problems and propose and analyze multiple solutions to produce the most efficient, cost-effective, resilient, and scalable architectural designs achievable.

On the technology stack, you will be overseeing platform development that spans the latest in cloud native tech. If you are passionate about system design and architecture, data-driven decision making, and developing open-source products, this job is for you!

How You Will Lead:

• System Integration Design: A detailed plan for integrating various systems, applications, and services, ensuring seamless connectivity between internal and external platforms.
• Scalable Architecture: A flexible and scalable architecture design that supports future growth, high availability, and performance optimization.
• Technology Stack Selection: Clear guidelines on the technology stack (tools, frameworks, cloud services) that align with business goals, ensuring the platform is optimized for speed, efficiency, and ease of use.
• Security and Compliance Framework: An architecture that integrates security best practices and ensures compliance with relevant regulations, providing data protection and risk mitigation.
• API Strategy and Microservices: A well-defined approach for implementing APIs and microservices to ensure modular, reusable components for rapid and flexible development.
• Automation and DevOps Pipeline: Frameworks for automating deployments, testing, and scaling infrastructure through a CI/CD pipeline to accelerate development cycles and improve efficiency.
• User Experience Guidelines: Standards for user-friendly interfaces, both for developers and end users, ensuring ease of use in managing and interacting with the digital capabilities.
• Comprehensive Architecture Blueprint: By delivering these components, the architect ensures the platform meets the goals of being fast, easy to use, and efficient for both internal and external users.
• Business Acumen: Understanding of the business goals and the ability to align technology solutions with strategic objectives.
• Communication and Collaboration: Excellent communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Action Oriented: Driven, motivated team player with a Get Stuff Done mentality!

Let’s talk about Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent combined education and experience.
• 15+ years managing and operating SaaS applications in production environments, including various types of software architectures like microservices / RESTful APIs.
• Experience with APIs and 3rd-party API adoption.
• Strong technical abilities with experience in distributed systems design and scale.
• Work experience in two or more of: Unix/Linux, Distributed Systems, AWS/GCP, Kubernetes/Container platforms-based software development.
• Have extensive experience with metrics and logging libraries and aggregators, data analysis and visualization tools.
• Record of improving your team through your leadership and mentoring. Helping the team see their path for growth.

If you’re looking for an environment where you can continue to develop your craft, explore new technologies, and have a larger contribution, we’d love to chat with you!

Joining us is more than saying “yes” to making the world a healthier place. It’s discovering a career that’s challenging, supportive, and inspiring. We focus on creating a diverse and inclusive culture, encouraging individual expression in the workplace and thrive on the innovative ideas this generates. If this sounds like the workplace for you, apply now!