Solution Architect (Cloud)

What you will be doing:

• Develop and maintain enterprise cloud architecture standards, principles, and reference architectures.
• Define cloud adoption roadmaps aligned with business and technology strategies.
• Evaluate cloud technologies and services to support current and future business requirements.
• Establish cloud governance frameworks, architecture patterns, and best practices.
• Design secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient cloud solutions.
• Provide architectural leadership across cloud transformation, application modernisation, data platforms, AI, and digital initiatives.
• Review and approve solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Support the migration of applications, data, and infrastructure from on-premise to cloud environments.
• Ensure cloud solutions comply with security, risk, regulatory, and governance requirements.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to implement cloud security controls and monitoring.
• Define cloud identity, access management, encryption, and network security architectures.
• Support audit, compliance, and risk management activities.
• Promote cloud operational excellence through automation, monitoring, and observability.
• Drive cloud cost optimisation and FinOps practices.
• Establish standards for availability, resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Support performance optimisation and capacity planning initiatives.
• Work closely with business leaders, product owners, engineering teams, and technology partners.
• Provide architectural guidance during planning, budgeting, and project execution.
• Present architecture strategies and recommendations to senior management and governance forums.
• Mentor solution architects, engineers, and technical teams on cloud architecture best practices.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Postgraduate qualification is advantageous.
• 8–12 years of IT experience, including at least 5 years in cloud architecture roles.
• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud solutions.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud migration and application modernisation programmes.
• Experience working within hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Experience within financial services, banking, insurance, or other highly regulated industries will be advantageous.
• Experience leading enterprise technology transformation initiatives and technical delivery teams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, leadership, and decision-making skills.
• Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure (Preferred), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Containers & Modern Platforms: Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Container Security