Director, Head of Cloud Transformation

Designation: Director

Location: London, Liverpool Street. 3 days per week in office.

Requirements:

• Lead the bank’s cloud strategy, architecture, and execution across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Line/department management experience.
• Own the design and delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud platforms supporting front, middle, and back-office functions.
• Drive cloud adoption across the organisation, partnering with engineering, infrastructure, security, risk, compliance, and business leadership.
• Define and enforce cloud governance, operating models, standards, controls, and best practices across the enterprise.
• Oversee cloud migration programmes, platform modernisation, and transformation of legacy infrastructure.
• Ensure cloud environments meet regulatory, operational resilience, data security, and financial services compliance requirements.
• Lead and develop high-performing cloud engineering, architecture, DevOps, and platform teams.
• Manage relationships with major cloud providers, technology vendors, and strategic outsourcing partners.
• Drive automation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native engineering practices.
• Own cloud cost management, FinOps, capacity planning, and optimisation across the estate.
• Work closely with cyber security teams to embed security-by-design across all cloud services and platforms.
• Provide executive-level reporting on cloud strategy, delivery progress, risk, resilience, and investment priorities.
• Support business growth by enabling faster, safer, and more reliable technology delivery.
• Bring deep experience from banking, capital markets, or highly regulated financial services environments.
• Act as a senior technology leader, influencing cloud direction across the wider enterprise technology function.