Cloud Architect – Azure & GCP

Job summary

The Cloud Architect role is centered on leading cloud transformation and application modernization efforts in the financial services sector, leveraging Azure and GCP. Responsibilities include defining cloud architectures, overseeing application migration, and promoting the use of Terraform, CI/CD, and Kubernetes while ensuring adherence to security and operational standards.

Qualifications

• Senior Architect within technology
• Strong hands-on experience across Microsoft Azure and GCP
• Proven experience delivering transformation programmes within banking or regulated financial services
• Understanding of operational resilience, cloud security

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver Azure & GCP cloud architectures and reference patterns
• Lead application migration and modernisation across rehost, re-platform, refactor and cloud-native approaches
• Drive Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, Kubernetes and cloud-native adoption
• Define standards around networking, IAM, security, monitoring, resilience and DR
• Provide technical leadership and present architecture decisions to senior stakeholders and governance forums

Skills

Industry

Contract length

Relocation