Director of Cloud Solutions

FinOps Weekly; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Bonhill Partners seeks a Director of Cloud Solutions to lead the bank's cloud strategy, architecture, and execution across private, public, and hybrid environments. London-based with three days in the office, the role drives governance, regulatory compliance, and cloud migration initiatives in a highly regulated financial services setting.

You will manage high-performing cloud engineering, DevOps, and platform teams, align with cyber security and risk, and ensure robust FinOps and cost

Qualifications

• Experience leading cloud strategy, architecture, and execution across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Strong track record in governance, operating models, standards, controls, and best practices for cloud.
• Proven ability to oversee cloud migration programmes and platform modernisation in regulated sectors.

Responsibilities

• Lead the bank’s cloud strategy, architecture, and execution across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Oversee cloud migration programmes, platform modernisation, and transformation of legacy infrastructure.
• Drive cloud adoption, working with engineering, security, risk, compliance, and business leadership.

Skills

Line/department management

Job description

Bonhill Partners# Director of Cloud Solutions## Job DescriptionRole: Head of Cloud Solutions/Services 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. Show more Show lessChange LocationFind awesome listings near you!