Staff VP, Cloud Solutions Engineering & Adoption

Anticipated End Date:
2026-10-09

Position Title:
Staff VP, Cloud Solutions Engineering & Adoption

Job Description:

Staff VP Cloud Solutions Engineering & Adoption

Location:   May be located in any Elevance Health PulsePoint office preferably in Indianapolis, IN, or New York, NY

This role requires associates to be in-office at least 3 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered.  Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

Summary

The Cloud Solutions Engineering & Adoption leader is responsible for driving the strategy, planning, delivery, financial management, and customer experience for enterprise infrastructure and cloud services.

This leader serves as a critical connection point between technology teams, business stakeholders, finance, architecture, engineering, and strategic partners to ensure Cloud capabilities are delivered reliably, efficiently, and in alignment with enterprise priorities.

The role owns an integrated operating model spanning customer success, demand and capacity planning, portfolio and delivery management, cloud financial operations (FinOps), service performance, and continuous improvement. The leader will establish transparency across technology consumption, cost, delivery commitments, service performance, and business outcomes while creating a strong culture of accountability and customer focus.

Team Scope

~7 direct reports / 30 total FTEs

Position Responsibilities

Customer Success & Business Partnership

- Establish and lead the customer success strategy for enterprise infrastructure and cloud services, ensuring technology capabilities align with business priorities and measurable outcomes.
- Serve as a senior relationship leader for business and technology stakeholders, creating clear channels for engagement, demand management, escalation, and service improvement.
- Develop mechanisms to understand customer needs, measure satisfaction, identify experience gaps, and translate feedback into actionable improvements.
- Provide customers and senior leaders with transparent views of service performance, delivery commitments, consumption, cost, risks, and opportunities.
- Champion a customer-first culture across infrastructure and cloud organizations while balancing reliability, security, cost, scalability, and enterprise standards.

Strategy, Planning & Portfolio Management

- Lead strategic and annual planning for infrastructure and cloud capabilities, investments, capacity, and modernization initiatives.
- Translate enterprise strategy and business demand into actionable infrastructure and cloud roadmaps.
- Establish integrated demand, capacity, financial, and resource planning processes.
- Develop and maintain portfolio governance that provides visibility into priorities, dependencies, investments, risks, milestones, and outcomes.
- Partner with architecture and engineering leaders to align technology roadmaps with business growth, modernization, resiliency, security, and operational requirements.
- Drive data-informed prioritization and investment decisions across competing infrastructure and cloud demands.

Delivery & Execution

- Provide leadership and governance for the delivery of complex infrastructure, cloud, migration, modernization, and transformation initiatives.
- Establish consistent delivery practices, metrics, controls, and accountability across the portfolio.
- Ensure delivery commitments are clearly defined and managed across scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and business outcomes.
- Identify systemic delivery risks, dependencies, and constraints and drive resolution across organizational boundaries.
- Improve delivery predictability, speed, and transparency through standardized planning, governance, automation, and performance management.
- Partner with engineering, architecture, operations, cybersecurity, application, and business teams to ensure successful implementation and adoption of infrastructure and cloud capabilities.

Cloud FinOps & Technology Financial Management

- Establish and mature enterprise FinOps capabilities to optimize cloud and infrastructure economics.
- Create transparency into cloud consumption, infrastructure costs, unit economics, forecasts, budgets, and financial performance.
- Lead cloud cost allocation, showback/chargeback, forecasting, optimization, commitment management, and financial governance practices.
- Partner with Finance, Procurement, Engineering, and business stakeholders to improve accountability for technology consumption and spending.
- Develop optimization strategies that balance cost with performance, reliability, security, resiliency, and business requirements.
- Establish KPIs and executive reporting for cloud spend, utilization, savings realization, forecast accuracy, unit costs, and optimization opportunities.
- Embed financial accountability into architecture, engineering, and product decisions rather than treating cost optimization as a downstream activity.

Service Performance & Operational Excellence

- Establish an integrated performance management framework for infrastructure and cloud services.
- Define and monitor KPIs, SLAs/SLOs, customer experience measures, financial metrics, delivery performance, and operational health.
- Develop executive dashboards and operating reviews that create transparency and drive action.
- Identify recurring service, delivery, financial, and customer experience issues and lead cross-functional improvement initiatives.
- Promote automation, standardization, self-service, and data-driven decision-making to improve efficiency and customer experience.
- Partner with operational and engineering leaders to improve service reliability, resiliency, scalability, and recoverability.

Governance & Executive Communication

- Establish governance mechanisms that connect strategy, demand, investment, delivery, operations, customer outcomes, and financial performance.
- Lead executive-level portfolio, customer, financial, and service performance reviews.
- Communicate complex infrastructure, cloud, delivery, and financial topics in clear business terms.
- Provide senior leadership with actionable insights, recommendations, risks, tradeoffs, and investment considerations.
- Ensure appropriate controls, standards, policies, and governance are embedded throughout planning and delivery processes.

Leadership & Talent Development

- Build and lead a high-performing organization spanning customer success, planning, portfolio/delivery management, FinOps, analytics, and governance.
- Establish clear accountability, decision rights, operating rhythms, and performance expectations.
- Develop leaders and teams with strong business acumen, technical understanding, financial discipline, and customer orientation.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, transparency, continuous improvement, and measurable outcomes.
- Influence across organizational boundaries and create alignment among senior business, technology, finance, and partner stakeholders.

Position Requirements

Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 15 years of leadership experience in programming environment; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background required.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experiences

- Significant leadership experience in enterprise infrastructure, cloud technology, technology strategy, portfolio management, delivery, customer success, or technology financial management.
- Demonstrated experience leading large-scale infrastructure and cloud portfolios in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of public cloud, private cloud, data center, compute, storage, network, platform, and infrastructure service models.
- Experience establishing or scaling FinOps and cloud financial management capabilities.
- Demonstrated expertise in strategic planning, demand management, portfolio governance, capacity planning, financial management, and large-scale technology delivery.
- Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, investment analysis, unit economics, and optimization.
- Experience developing executive-level metrics, dashboards, operating reviews, and decision frameworks.
- Proven ability to lead through influence across business, technology, finance, procurement, cybersecurity, architecture, and engineering organizations.
- Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, and organizational leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in complex, highly regulated, large-scale enterprise environments.
- Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience implementing FinOps Foundation principles and practices.
- FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent certification.
- Cloud, ITIL, Agile, product management, program management, or technology financial management certifications.
- Experience leading infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, platform transformation, or data center transformation programs.
- Experience managing strategic technology vendors, cloud providers, managed service providers, and complex commercial agreements.

Corporate title: Staff VP Engineering

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below location(s), the salary* range for this specific position is $211,920 to $381,456

Locations:

New York

In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). The salary offered for this specific position is based on a number of legitimate, non-discriminatory factors set by the Company.  The Company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of gender, race, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local pay equity laws .

*The salary range is the range Elevance Health in good faith believes is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future and actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill level. Even within the range, the actual compensation will vary depending on the above factors as well as market/business considerations. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, paid time off, stock, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Job Level:
Staff/Regional VP

Workshift:

Job Family:
IFT > Engineering​/Dev

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Who We Are

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.

How We Work

At Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers, our associates, our communities and our business.

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process.

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process should submit the following form: Accessibility Accommodation Request Form and a member of the team will be in contact. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws, including, but not limited to, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.

Prospective employees required to be screened under Florida law should review the education and awareness resources at HB531 | Florida Agency for Health Care Administration .

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