Director, Scientific Cloud Engineering

The posting, as Flagship Pioneering, Inc. wrote it

ABOUT FLAGSHIP PIONEERING

Flagship Pioneering is a life sciences innovation enterprise that invents and builds transformative companies. Since its founding in 2000, Flagship has originated more than 100 ventures, including Moderna, and has deployed over $4 billion toward scientific discovery. Our Scientific Cloud team is the connective tissue that powers data and technology infrastructure across Flagship's growing portfolio of companies.

About Scientific Cloud: Scientific Cloud is Flagship Pioneering's portfolio-facing IT organization, responsible for the cloud engineering, data and informatics engineering, research systems, lab systems, and vendor management capabilities that power Flagship's emerging companies. The team operates with a portfolio-first orientation — building durable, shared infrastructure that individual ventures can rely on at every stage of company formation and growth.

THE POSITION

The Director, Scientific Cloud Engineering is a senior technical organizational leader responsible for engineering the cloud and computational infrastructure that underpins scientific discovery across the Flagship portfolio. Reporting to the Senior Director of Scientific Cloud, this individual will manage and lead a growing team of engineers — including Cloud DevOps and Bioinformatics— and serve as the primary technical authority for scientific , and scientific computing platforms.

This role sits at the intersection of cloud engineering and life sciences. The Director will bring both the technical depth of an experienced cloud architect and a meaningful understanding of the computational demands of biotech research — including genomics workflows, high-performance computing, containerized pipelines, and AI/ML infrastructure. They will partner closely with Data Architecture & Engineering, Lab Systems, and Research Systems teams to ensure that what gets built is scalable, reproducible, and grounded in the realities of scientific work.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

Team Leadership & Engineering Management

• Lead, mentor, and grow , including external contractors and consultants; set a high technical bar and foster a culture of rigor, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a player-coach — providing direct technical contributions while managing team capacity, priorities, and professional development.
• Partner with the Senior Director of Scientific Cloud to define team roadmap, resource allocation, and hiring strategy as the portfolio scales.
• Establish engineering best practices, code review standards, and documentation norms across their Scientific Cloud Engineering team.

Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure

• Own and evolve the cloud architecture strategy for Scientific Cloud, designing scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure across AWS and/or Azure environments.
• Architect and deliver reusable infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions — including Terraform modules, CDK constructs, and containerized service templat

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The salary range for this role is $172,000 - $236,500. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Flagship Pioneering currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits. Compensation and benefits information is based on Flagship Pioneering's good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.

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