Cloud Platform Director: AWS, AI & Security by Design

107632 Capital Markets Operations; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 126,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

38 days annual leave

Excellent pension

12x salary life assurance

Career breaks

Income protection

Volunteering days

Job summary

Standard Life is seeking a Head of Cloud Platform to lead cloud architecture across the estate, focusing on AWS and secure-by-design engineering. You will define strategy, set guardrails, and partner with engineering, data, AI and security teams to deliver resilient, cost-effective solutions.

You will drive cloud governance, architecture standards, and implementation of best practices across CI/CD, IaC and observability while embedding security into every layer.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on AWS cloud experience with design and deployment of cloud-native solutions.
• Ability to define cloud strategy and target architectures aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Establish standards and guardrails for secure-by-design prototypes and reference implementations.

Responsibilities

• Provide cloud platform architecture leadership across AWS.
• Define and communicate cloud strategy and roadmaps.
• Set standards and guardrails for engineering teams.
• Embed security, resilience and compliance into cloud and AI designs.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, AI and security teams.

Skills

AWS

Cloud architecture

Cloud strategy

Security-by-design

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Observability

Security

Job description

Standard Life is seeking a Head of Cloud Platform to lead cloud architecture across the estate, focusing on AWS and secure-by-design engineering. You will define strategy, set guardrails, and partner with engineering, data, AI and security teams to deliver resilient, cost-effective solutions.

You will drive cloud governance, architecture standards, and implementation of best practices across CI/CD, IaC and observability while embedding security into every layer.