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Description
Senior Director, Cloud Reliability & ExcellenceSyneos Health is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering-for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
Why Syneos Health
. We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression supportive and engaged line management technical and therapeutic area training peer recognition and total rewards program.
. We are committed to building an inclusive culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose - Driven to Deliver - which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone's life.
. We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.
Job Responsibilities
Core Responsibilities
Accountable for incident, problem, and change management outcomes, ensuring high-quality execution, clear ownership, and measurable improvements in service reliability.
Own service reliability outcomes using SRE-aligned practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, reliability reviews), partnering with engineering teams to reduce recurring issues and operational toil.
Own FinOps execution, including cost controls, savings realization, unit-cost transparency, and executive reporting (budgets, forecasts, anomalies, andshowback/chargeback where applicable).
Govern MSP performance, SLAs, and delivery quality, including operational scorecards, service reviews, escalation paths, and remediation plans.
Drive the transition from manual runbooks to platform-led automation, standardizingworkflowsand enabling self-service operations via tooling and policy-based controls.
Ensure operationsremainpredictable, scalable, and audit ready through standardized processes, documentation, access controls, and compliance-ready evidence.
Define and manage operational KPIs (availability, incident metrics, change success rate, MTTR, cost efficiency), ensuring consistent reporting and accountability across teams and vendors.
Lead cross-functional operating rhythms (weekly reliability/cost reviews, quarterly service planning) to balance execution rigor with transformation goals.
Additional Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) advanced degree preferred.
Leadership experience running large-scale cloud or hybrid operations, including accountable ownership of reliability and operational outcomes.
Strong ITSM background (incident/problem/change) with SRE-aligned operations practices and a proven record of improving availability, MTTR, and change success rate.
Demonstrated ownership of cost, reliability, and operational KPIs, including executive-ready reporting and continuous improvement mechanisms.
FinOps execution experience: cost allocation and controls, optimization/savings programs, forecasting, and variance management.
Strong vendor/MSP governance experience, including SLA management, service delivery oversight, operational scorecards, and escalation/remediation leadership.
Proven ability to drive automation and operational transformation (reducing toil, modernizing runbooks, and enabling platform-led self-service) whilemaintainingexecution rigor.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to lead through influence across Engineering, Security, Finance, and vendor partners.
Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.
No matter what your role is, you'll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
Additional Information
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.
Summary
The Senior Director, Cloud Reliability & Excellence owns cloud reliability and FinOps outcomes, acting as the accountable leader for run excellence, cost discipline, and MSP governance. This role is responsible for predictable, scalable, and audit-ready operations across cloud and hybrid environments-driving service reliability through strong ITSM execution (incident, problem, and change), measurable operational KPIs, and continuous improvement. The Senior Director partners with Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Finance to implement cost controls and savings initiatives, strengthen vendor performance and SLAs, and accelerate the transition from manual runbooks to platform-led automation.INC Research/inVentiv Health has become Syneos Health, the only fully integrated end-to-end clinical and commercial solution organization. We are purpose-built for biopharmaceutical acceleration, creating better, smarter, faster ways to help clients navigate an increasingly complex marketplace. Our new business addresses today’s market realities through clinical and commercial sharing expertise and data and insights to meet the needs of emerging and large global biopharmaceutical companies.
Job ID: 144915967