Head of Cloud Platform

107632 Capital Markets Operations; Greater London; On-site; 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

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Telford, Birmingham, London or Edinburgh with a preference for 2-3 days in the office.

Flexible working:All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.

Salary and benefits:Up to £140,000, discretionarybonus,private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

Closing Date: 18th August 26

We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years,we’vebeen helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.

Life today is increasingly complicated,uncertainand unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpectedmomentsand navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection,accountabilityandhigh standards.We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.

We’relooking for aHead ofCloud Platformresponsibleforcloud across the estate, setting direction and guardrails that enable engineering teams to deliver secure,resilientand cost-effective solutions, embedding security as a core design principle across platforms, engineeringpracticesand AI/ML capabilities.In ourEngineering & Transformationfunction,you will take ahands-on approach to architecture leadership, bringingdeep technicalexpertisein cloud platforms (particularly AWS)todesign, build and deploy prototypes and reference solutions that engineering teams can adopt and scale.

What are we looking for?

• Deep, hands-onexpertiseacross AWS services and cloud-native architectures with a proven ability to design, build and deploy cloud-native solutions and prototypes.
• Define cloud strategy, principles and target architectures aligned to business priorities, Group Enterprise Architecture and AI strategy, driving a technically grounded roadmap based on deep AWS knowledge and cost models.
• Establish clear standards and guardrails for engineering teams whilst designing,buildingand deploying secure-by-design prototypes and reference implementations using cloud-native services
• Drive simplification across the estate whilst ensuring alignment across engineering, data,AIand security
• Act as the architectural authority for cloud and AI direction whilst influencing through demonstrable solutions and working implementations
• Embed security, resilience and compliance into cloud and AI architecture, patterns and engineering practices whilst defining and implementing secure-by-design principles aligned to internal standards and external frameworks.
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles and embedding security into engineering practices and pipelines whilst driving and defining standards for CI/CD, infrastructure as code,observabilityand security

We want to hire thewhole versionof you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from whatwe’veadvertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role,we’dlove to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

Find out more about working at Standard Life