About This Role
This role is for a visionary Cloud Architect who will shape secure, scalable, and future-ready cloud architectures for the bank. You will work across various teams to transform complex regulatory and operational requirements into elegant, resilient cloud solutions, enabling innovation and guiding the bank's controlled cloud adoption journey.
Responsibilities
- Lead and govern bank application migration of legacy on-premises workloads to cloud platforms, including application, data, and infrastructure modernization
- Assess migration strategies (re-host, re-platform, re-factor, retire) with full consideration of regulatory, security, and operational risks
- Define and promote cloud-native architecture patterns (e.g., event-driven, managed services), aligned with banking security and compliance standards
- Evaluate suitability of PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS solutions to reduce operational overhead while maintaining resiliency, auditability, and control
- Design for high availability, disaster recovery, and service continuity during and after migration from on-premises environments
- Ensure bank’s services RTO/RPO, monitoring, and incident response requirements are met for cloud-native and on-premise workloads
- Collaborate with application teams, infrastructure, and operations through cloud migration and adoption, providing clear architectural direction and best practices
- Support change management by balancing innovation with operational stability in a regulated banking environment
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or equivalent
- Minimum 8 years in cloud architecture or cloud solution design within enterprise environments
- Cloud certifications (Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect)
- Hands-on experience in enterprise architecture, risk management, and governance frameworks aligned to financial regulations
- Knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment strategies
