Senior Cloud Technology Architect

Nationwide; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial services organization seeks a Cloud Architect to lead the design and adoption of cloud solutions across their AWS and Azure platforms. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the UK financial services sector, focusing on scalable, secure, and compliant solutions. This dynamic role involves collaborating within agile teams to drive cloud innovation and support architectural standards that align with business objectives.

Benefits

Personal pension scheme with employer match

Paid volunteering days

Life assurance (8x salary)

Comprehensive health and wellness access

Annual performance-related bonus

Career advancement training opportunities

30 days annual leave

Individual healthcare cover

Qualifications

• Proven experience with AWS and Azure in a financial services context.
• Expertise in cloud-native technologies and security frameworks.
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code, preferably with Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud solutions adhering to financial compliance.
• Collaborate with teams to adopt and enhance cloud services.
• Develop proof of concepts leveraging modern cloud technologies.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS

Azure

Infrastructure as Code

Security compliance

DevOps practices

Containerization

Automation

Job description

As a Cloud Architect, you’ll operate at various levels, including setting strategic technology direction, defining architectural patterns / standards, contributing to solution architecture & governance of architecture / design for the cloud platform as well as consumer cloud solutions.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, delivery & operational teams. Guided by a deep understanding of their challenges, you will ensure that the Society’s strategy & architecture are well understood.

You'll work in an agile manner with workstreams and feature teams to provide guidance on product development, to align with the landing zone in place or iterate on the capability roadmap to include any new features into platform roadmaps.

You'll assure design artifacts done by the product teams (business and platform), providing feedback enabling efficient and effective cloud adoption using the full suite of cloud services offered.

This role sits within the Cloud Function under Cloud, Digital and Integration Domain, and is responsible for building and maintaining our enterprise dual cloud platform (AWS and Azure). The platform is a realisation of Nationwide’s multi-cloud; hybrid-cloud strategy allowing a spectrum of workloads (incl. Important Business Services) to be deployed onto public cloud underpinned by centrally managed shared services.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our Swindon or London office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

What you’ll be doing

From writing solution intent documentation to engineering and demonstrating proof of concepts using new and modern cloud native technologies, you’ll be responsible for effective and efficient adoption of cloud services within the society.

You will work closely with your peers in business areas to help adopt cloud services, and in the process define standards and patterns from those experiences.

You will also work with Platform Engineering team on defining reference architecture as well as target state for key cloud technologies. You will leverage on your learnings from industry best practices and cutting edge cloud native technology innovations to define the target state.

About you

• You are a seasoned cloud architect with a strong track record of designing and implementing sophisticated, secure, and compliant solutions across both AWS and Azure within the demanding UK financial services sector.
• You possess deep, hands-on expertise across core AWS (Eg. EC2, S3, VPC, RDS) and Azure services (Eg. VMs, Blob Storage, VNet, Azure SQL, AAD, Functions, ARM).
• You have proven experience migrating complex workloads and are adept at hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. Experience in architecting for scalability, resilience, security, and cost-efficiency, adhering to the Well-Architected Frameworks of both platforms.
• Advanced cloud networking and security are your strengths. You master native security tools (e.g., AWS Security Hub/GuardDuty, Azure Defender/Sentinel) as well as Third party solutions such as Palo Alto (Prisma/Firewall), and Hashicorp Vault, robust IAM, data protection, and designing for UK financial regulatory compliance (FCA, PRA, GDPR).
• You champion Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred), automation (Python/PowerShell), and DevOps/CI-CD practices as part of your solutioning approach.
• Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes - AKS/EKS) and cloud-native database/analytics solutions is essential.
• You are a strategic thinker who translates business needs into robust cloud architectures.

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind
• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand
• Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development
• Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 30 days holiday pro rata
• Individual healthcare cover

Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society

We forge our own path at Nationwide.

As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.

At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.

We are Purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly Customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

What to do next

If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.

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