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. As the main architect of engineering for the DPE organization, you can understand the customer demand as well as the technology & business opportunities that exist in order to lead the organization forward. 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. and rethink on how APIs, their design and runtime manifestations can be seamlessly blended with state-of-the-art observability all with a singular experience. 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 audience.
• 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!

We are shaping the future at ResMed, and we recognize the need to build on and broaden our existing skills and continue to attract and retain the world’s best talent. We work hard to offer holistic benefits packages, provide flexible work arrangements, cultivate a workforce culture that allows employees to grow personally and professionally, and deliver competitive salaries to our team members. Employees scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for benefits. This position qualifies for the following benefits package: comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, sleep care management, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), commuter benefits, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and tuition assistance. Employees receive fifteen days Paid Time Off (PTO) in their first year of employment, receive 11 paid holidays plus 3 floating days and are eligible for 14 weeks of primary caregiver or two weeks of secondary caregiver leave when welcoming new family members.

At ResMed, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current base range for this position is: $216,000 - $280,000 USD.

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. Where a culture driven by excellence helps you not only meet your goals, but also create new ones. 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! We commit to respond to every applicant.