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Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
THE OPPORTUNITY
This Senior Cloud Solutions Architect position can work out of our Santa Clara, CA location.
The Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect role requires enhancing a SaaS cloud platform aimed at improving global health outcomes. Responsibilities include coordinating issue resolutions and mentoring junior engineers on cloud platforms. Contribute to product improvements, design and implement cloud-based services and provide technical expertise to shape solutions while staying updated on emerging trends to drive innovation. Leadership, versatility, continuous learning, and a strong passion for software engineering are key qualities for success in this role. Will be involved in the entire lifecycle of an implementation with a key emphasis on the standards, methodology, and designs utilized, including but not limited to understanding key functional gaps, data models, interface, transformation, and technical specification design.
Strong expertise in healthcare cloud applications (security and data privacy), interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR, DICOM) and modern cloud-native data and AI platforms. This role is responsible for architecting, designing, and guiding the implementation of secure, scalable, and compliant healthcare solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP, leveraging data lakes, data warehouses, Databricks, and AI/ML technologies including Agentic AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
What You’ll Work On
- Leads the strategic planning and development of architectural roadmaps, including presenting to business divisions and management.
- Translate business needs into scalable, secure solution architectures aligned to standards.
- Design and build cloud-native, high-performance services and APIs for global healthcare platforms.
- Develop maintainable, testable code and ensure performance, uptime, and scalability.
- Architect interoperable healthcare solutions (HL7, FHIR, DICOM) across EHRs, PACS, and partner systems.
- Ensure compliance with HIPAA, HITRUST, GDPR, FDA, and other regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate cross-functionally (engineering, InfoSec, data, partners) to design secure, integrated solutions.
- Drive API strategy and contract design for internal and external integrations.
- Build internal tools and implement system improvements aligned to architecture goals.
- Participate in agile development, technical planning, and code reviews.
- Create technical artifacts (diagrams, workflows, documentation, knowledge base articles).
- Troubleshoot issues, coordinate resolutions, and advocate for customer needs.
- Contribute to innovation by evaluating emerging technologies and recommending improvements.
- Design advanced architectures including:
- AI/ML solutions (predictive analytics, clinical decision support, imaging).
- Agentic AI workflows and LLM-based systems.
- RAG architectures with vector databases.
- Support enterprise initiatives, quality systems (QMS/EMS), and cross-functional collaboration.
Core Competencies
- Technical Architecture: Define long-term vision while enabling near-term delivery.
- AI-Driven Engineering: Apply GenAI/agentic patterns to improve speed and quality.
- Product Mindset: Link technical decisions to customer value and outcomes.
- Operational Excellence: Ensure reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
- Influence & Communication: Communicate effectively across executive and technical audiences.
- Change Leadership: Drive adoption of new technologies and practices at scale.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, distributed systems, or related roles.
- Experience in customer-facing or consultative roles (e.g., solutions architect, resident engineer, customer success engineering).
- Strong background in networking and security (routing, BGP, IPsec VPNs, virtualization).
- Hands-on experience with Linux-based systems and infrastructure.
- Expertise with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience designing scalable, highly available, cloud-native architectures.
- Strong knowledge of containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and automated testing.
- Familiarity with data platforms (Databricks, data lakes, data warehousing).
- Experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions.
Technologies
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP; serverless and containerized architectures.
- Orchestration & IaC: Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform.
- DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, automated pipelines, artifact management.
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry.
- Data & Streaming: Kafka, Spark, Databricks, event-driven architectures.
- Security: SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets management, policy-as-code.
- AI/ML (Modern Stack): LLMs, RAG, vector databases, agent frameworks (LangChain, Semantic Kernel).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with healthcare interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR, DICOM).
- Knowledge of AI/ML architectures, including LLMs, Agentic AI, and RAG systems.
- Experience designing solutions handling PHI/PII in regulated environments.
- Familiarity with healthcare or regulated industry standards (FDA, HIPAA, ISO 13485, IEC 60601).
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java, C#, Node.js).
software
Compensation
- The base pay for this position is $130,700.00 – $261,300.00.
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY: Product Development
DIVISION: MD Medical Devices
LOCATION: United States > Santa Clara : Building B - SC
WORK SHIFT: Standard
TRAVEL: Yes, 5 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf
EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
THE OPPORTUNITY
This Senior Cloud Solutions Architect position can work out of our Santa Clara, CA location.
The Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect role requires enhancing a SaaS cloud platform aimed at improving global health outcomes. Responsibilities include coordinating issue resolutions and mentoring junior engineers on cloud platforms. Contribute to product improvements, design and implement cloud-based services and provide technical expertise to shape solutions while staying updated on emerging trends to drive innovation. Leadership, versatility, continuous learning, and a strong passion for software engineering are key qualities for success in this role. Will be involved in the entire lifecycle of an implementation with a key emphasis on the standards, methodology, and designs utilized, including but not limited to understanding key functional gaps, data models, interface, transformation, and technical specification design.
Strong expertise in healthcare cloud applications (security and data privacy), interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR, DICOM) and modern cloud-native data and AI platforms. This role is responsible for architecting, designing, and guiding the implementation of secure, scalable, and compliant healthcare solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP, leveraging data lakes, data warehouses, Databricks, and AI/ML technologies including Agentic AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
What You’ll Work On
- Leads the strategic planning and development of architectural roadmaps, including presenting to business divisions and management.
- Translate business needs into scalable, secure solution architectures aligned to standards.
- Design and build cloud-native, high-performance services and APIs for global healthcare platforms.
- Develop maintainable, testable code and ensure performance, uptime, and scalability.
- Architect interoperable healthcare solutions (HL7, FHIR, DICOM) across EHRs, PACS, and partner systems.
- Ensure compliance with HIPAA, HITRUST, GDPR, FDA, and other regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate cross-functionally (engineering, InfoSec, data, partners) to design secure, integrated solutions.
- Drive API strategy and contract design for internal and external integrations.
- Build internal tools and implement system improvements aligned to architecture goals.
- Participate in agile development, technical planning, and code reviews.
- Create technical artifacts (diagrams, workflows, documentation, knowledge base articles).
- Troubleshoot issues, coordinate resolutions, and advocate for customer needs.
- Contribute to innovation by evaluating emerging technologies and recommending improvements.
- Design advanced architectures including:
- AI/ML solutions (predictive analytics, clinical decision support, imaging).
- Agentic AI workflows and LLM-based systems.
- RAG architectures with vector databases.
- Support enterprise initiatives, quality systems (QMS/EMS), and cross-functional collaboration.
Core Competencies
- Technical Architecture: Define long-term vision while enabling near-term delivery.
- AI-Driven Engineering: Apply GenAI/agentic patterns to improve speed and quality.
- Product Mindset: Link technical decisions to customer value and outcomes.
- Operational Excellence: Ensure reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
- Influence & Communication: Communicate effectively across executive and technical audiences.
- Change Leadership: Drive adoption of new technologies and practices at scale.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, distributed systems, or related roles.
- Experience in customer-facing or consultative roles (e.g., solutions architect, resident engineer, customer success engineering).
- Strong background in networking and security (routing, BGP, IPsec VPNs, virtualization).
- Hands-on experience with Linux-based systems and infrastructure.
- Expertise with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience designing scalable, highly available, cloud-native architectures.
- Strong knowledge of containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and automated testing.
- Familiarity with data platforms (Databricks, data lakes, data warehousing).
- Experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions.
Technologies
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP; serverless and containerized architectures.
- Orchestration & IaC: Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform.
- DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, automated pipelines, artifact management.
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry.
- Data & Streaming: Kafka, Spark, Databricks, event-driven architectures.
- Security: SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets management, policy-as-code.
- AI/ML (Modern Stack): LLMs, RAG, vector databases, agent frameworks (LangChain, Semantic Kernel).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with healthcare interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR, DICOM).
- Knowledge of AI/ML architectures, including LLMs, Agentic AI, and RAG systems.
- Experience designing solutions handling PHI/PII in regulated environments.
- Familiarity with healthcare or regulated industry standards (FDA, HIPAA, ISO 13485, IEC 60601).
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java, C#, Node.js).
software
Compensation
- The base pay for this position is $130,700.00 – $261,300.00.
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY: Product Development
DIVISION: MD Medical Devices
LOCATION: United States > Santa Clara : Building B - SC
WORK SHIFT: Standard
TRAVEL: Yes, 5 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf
EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Senior Cloud Solutions Architect
Document your architecture credentials precisely
PERM requires your employer to prove the role genuinely needs your qualifications. Gather transcripts, certifications like AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Azure Expert, and project records showing advanced cloud design work before your employer begins labor certification.
Distinguish EB-2 from EB-3 eligibility early
If your Senior Cloud Solutions Architect role requires a master's degree or equivalent, push for EB-2 classification. EB-2 skips the skilled-worker queue and typically moves faster for non-backlogged countries, which affects your practical timeline significantly.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Not every company that hires cloud architects has navigated PERM before. Search Migrate Mate to find employers with documented EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship history in technology and infrastructure roles, narrowing your search to organizations already familiar with the process.
Verify the prevailing wage tier before accepting an offer
Your employer must pay the DOL-certified prevailing wage for your role and location throughout the PERM process. Use the OFLC Wage Search to check the Level III or Level IV wage for your SOC code before negotiating compensation.
Ask directly about concurrent I-140 and I-485 filing
If a visa number is immediately available for your category and country, your employer can file the I-140 petition and your I-485 adjustment of status simultaneously. Confirm with USCIS priority date charts whether concurrent filing applies to your situation before the offer stage.
Align job description language with O*NET standards
PERM audits often scrutinize whether stated job requirements are standard for the occupation. Cross-reference your employer's draft job description against the O*NET profile for cloud architecture roles to ensure minimum requirements aren't inflated beyond industry norms, which can stall certification.
Green Card Senior Cloud Solutions Architect: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Senior Cloud Solutions Architect positions qualify for EB-2 sponsorship if the employer requires a master's degree or a bachelor's degree plus five or more years of progressive experience. Roles that define the minimum as a bachelor's degree with standard experience typically fall under EB-3 as a skilled worker. The classification depends on how the employer drafts the PERM job requirements, not on your personal credentials alone.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary status with a three-year initial period and an annual cap lottery. Green card sponsorship through PERM and I-140 leads to permanent residency with no renewal cycles and no cap concerns at the EB-3 skilled-worker level for most countries outside India and China. The trade-off is time: PERM labor certification alone takes six months to a year before the I-140 is even filed.
How long does the full EB-2 or EB-3 green card process take for a cloud architect?
For applicants from countries without visa backlogs, the end-to-end process from PERM filing to green card approval typically runs two to three years. PERM itself takes six to twelve months, I-140 adjudication adds another six to twelve months under standard processing, and I-485 adjustment of status adds additional time if a visa number isn't immediately available. Indian and Chinese nationals face significantly longer waits due to per-country annual limits.
Where can I find Senior Cloud Solutions Architect jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search specifically for cloud architecture roles where employers have documented EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship history, so you're not spending time applying to companies that have never navigated PERM. Filtering by sponsorship track record is especially useful for senior-level roles where PERM job requirements are more specialized and employer experience with the process matters.
Can my employer start PERM while I'm on H-1B, and what happens if my H-1B expires?
Yes, employers routinely file PERM while you hold H-1B status, and you can continue working as long as your H-1B remains valid. If your I-140 is approved and has been pending for 365 days, you may qualify for H-1B extensions beyond the six-year cap under AC21 portability rules. USCIS governs this extension path, so confirm your I-140 approval date and current status before your sixth year approaches.