Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Veeva is seeking a talented and motivated Systems Architect to join our dynamic team. As a Systems Architect, you are innately curious, have a penchant for problem-solving, and will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems. Our mission is to protect, provide for, and progress the software and systems utilized by our product engineering teams. This role is a blend of strategic planning and hands-on execution, requiring a leader who can both design cutting-edge IT solutions and roll up their sleeves to implement them.

Ideal candidates have worked in enterprise software development or for a high-growth technology company.

What You’ll Do

Provide comprehensive architecture plans for multiple cloud-based applications supporting our internal stakeholders across engineering, product support, training, and services teams

Partner with stakeholders (business leaders, DevOps, security, infrastructure) to understand application usage, future growth,h and strategic goals

Recommend specific hardware, software, and methodologies that align with industry best practices, standards, and organizational goals

Oversee the implementation and integration of key business systems

Analyze performance and ensure the applications (GitLab, Jira, Confluence, TestRail, Mattermost), hosted in AWS, meet the scalability and reliability needs of our internal teams

Perform root cause analysis for complex failures and offer modern solutions and tools

Establish metrics to monitor system performance, proactively identify issue,s and recommend solutions for optimal performance

Identify and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and reliability issues across the stack

Implement best practices for cloud-based infrastructure, ensuring security, scalability, and cost efficiency

Stay informed about emerging technologies and industry trends including AI to identify opportunities for innovation within enterprise business systems

Create detailed documentation of systems architecture designs, technical specifications, and implementation plans

You want to make the system better every day and are self-driven to learn all that is necessary to provide full-stack diagnostics and determine the root cause of problems

Communicate effectively with engineering and infrastructure teams and describe problems succinctly with sufficient detail

Engage in real-time communication during outages with both technical and non-technical audiences

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or other similar degree, or equivalent work experience

8+ years of working experience as a Systems Architect

Strong understanding of computer systems, networking, and data storage

Proven ability to architect scalable solutions across enterprise applications

Experience with AWS and container orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes)

Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and version control systems (e.g., Git)

Independent learner, curious to learn new technologies

Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues under pressure

Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation

Experience with performance tuning of databases and distributed storage systems.

Demonstrated history of incident management and leadership ability

Strong attention to detail, goal-oriented

Commitment to excellent customer service

Effective communication skills across all levels — whether talking to individual contributors or executives

Nice to Have

Working knowledge of Git repositories

Solid scripting skills; experience with Shell, Bash, Ansible, Python, Go, Ruby, etc.

Jira data center implementation experience

GitLab implementation experience

Perks & Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance

Flexible PTO and company paid holidays

Retirement programs

1% charitable giving program

Compensation

Base pay: $115,000 - $165,000

The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.

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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at talent_accommodations@veeva.com.

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