Associate Architect, Infrastructure and Operations

How will your role help us transform hope into reality?

As a critical member of the IT team at Blueprint Medicines, you will partner with the organization and be a key contributor in different IT projects. This is an opportunity to provide support and leadership on key strategic business initiatives at a time of high growth. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced and rapidly growing environment, this could be the opportunity for you!

What will you do?

• Lead or participate in a cross functional team to plan and design information technology solutions
• Identify and implement strategies to optimize infrastructure performance, capacity, and efficiency
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues quickly and effectively, minimizing downtime and impact on business operations.
• Lead cloud infrastructure for corporate application and web servers to ensure high availability and optimal performance
• Design scalable cloud infrastructure for our data analyses and other informatics pipelines
• Maintain production databases and application servers to support research and development efforts
• Mitigate security issues stemming from regular audits of IT systems as needed
• Oversee regular maintenance and testing of remote disaster recovery infrastructure
• Lead and participate in business continuity planning and implementation with a cross functional team
• Lead efforts to improve and optimize existing processes
• Act as mentor and escalation point for colleagues. Lead initiatives with manageable risks and resource requirements
• Collaborate with other IT teams, business units, and stakeholders to understand their needs and ensure infrastructure solutions meet their requirements
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation of infrastructure configurations, processes, and procedures.
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned

What minimum qualifications do we require?

• 6+ years of relevant technical experience and 2+ years of experience in a senior role
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

What additional qualifications will make you a stronger candidate?

• Proficiency in leading and designing cloud-first infrastructure
• Proficiency in handling mixed Windows, Linux, and MacOS environments
• Proficiency in scripting (unix shell/powershell/aws-cli)
• Proficiency in managing Microsoft 365, including Entra ID, Intune, Exchange Online, Teams, and SharePoint
• Proficiency in maintaining Oracle, SQL Server, PostgresSQL, and MySQL server databases
• Proficiency in supervising network monitoring/security solutions such as Zabbix, Crowdstrike, and Zscaler
• Proficiency managing campus network solutions including routing, switching, firewalling, and wireless access. Experience with Cisco, FortiNet, and Extreme is a plus.
• Familiarity with maintaining a range of web servers, such as IIS, Nginx, Tomcat, and JBoss
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code solutions such as CloudFormation or Terraform is a plus
• Resourcefulness/Flexibility - The ability to adapt to working optimally within a variety of situations; adapts to change and to changes in job demands
• Communication and Partnership - Ability to optimally express ideas in written and oral context; collaboration, team-building skills and interpersonal skills; genuine desire to be on a team and contribute to organizational and team goals
• Effective Planning - Demonstrated effective time management skills and execution
• Perseverance - Pursues tasks with energy, drive and initiative; comfortable in an accountable environment where you can make an impact
• Problem Solving - Ability to understand a situation or problem by breaking it down into smaller pieces using a detailed approach and to identify patterns and connections between situations that are not obviously related
• Relationship Building - Builds productive working relationships across a diverse spectrum of people
• Commitment to our Core Values: Patients First, Thoughtfulness, Urgency, Trust, Optimism

Why Blueprint?

At Blueprint Medicines, we achieve impactful results because of our global crew of compassionate innovators - the Blue Crew. Through authentic relationships and our collective entrepreneurial spirit and action, we are each empowered to take ownership and execute with strategic prioritization. We put trust in our people to break through norms and conventions using their individual strengths and insights, which drives our success.

This is the place where the extraordinary becomes reality, and you could be part of it.

Patients are waiting. Are you ready to make the leap?

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Affirmative Action

At Blueprint Medicines, we foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion. A proud Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We are also an E-Verify Employer. We will make reasonable accommodations, absent undue hardship, for qualified individuals with known disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability in need of an accommodation with the application or recruiting process, please reach out to TotalRewards@blueprintmedicines.com.

For more information, please see ourEEO-AA Policy Statement, the E-Verify Participation Poster, the Right to Work Poster, and/or theEEO Know Your Rights Poster, as well as ourPay Transparency Statement.

Blueprint Medicines is a global, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company that invents life-changing medicines. We seek to alleviate human suffering by solving important medical problems in two core focus areas: allergy/inflammation and oncology/hematology. Our approach begins by targeting the root causes of disease, using deep scientific knowledge in our core focus areas and drug discovery expertise across multiple therapeutic modalities. We have a proven track record of success with two approved medicines, including bringing our medicine to patients with systemic mastocytosis (SM) in the U.S. and Europe. Leveraging our established research, development, and commercial capability and infrastructure, we now aim to significantly scale our impact by advancing a broad pipeline of programs ranging from early science to advanced clinical trials in mast cell diseases including SM and chronic urticaria, breast cancer and other solid tumors.

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