Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

Bank of Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of Ireland's Cloud Centre of Excellence is seeking a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect to design secure, scalable cloud solutions and drive the AI Platform roadmap as part of our digital transformation.

You will collaborate with AI CoE, partners and delivery teams, translating complex architectural concepts into practical designs, while embedding security by design and optimizing costs across AWS/Azure environments.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and Azure environments.
• Hands-on with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD practices.
• Ability to design secure, scalable cloud solutions.
• Strong communication for stakeholder alignment.

Responsibilities

• Design cloud infrastructure and platform solutions that meet business needs while aligning with Bank policies and security standards.
• Provide practical guidance on cloud adoption, supporting teams and partners with solution design and implementation.
• Find opportunities to optimise cost, performance and innovation across our public cloud platforms.
• Communicate architectural designs clearly to both technical and non-technical partners, embedding security by design.
• Create reusable patterns and guardrails to accelerate safe cloud adoption and support the onboarding of new services related to AI.

Skills

AWS

Azure

Terraform

CloudFormation

Python

CI/CD

DevOps

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

What is the opportunity?

Join Bank of Ireland's Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) as a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, where you'll play a key role in delivering our AI Platform roadmap and wider digital transformation.

In this role, you'll design secure, reliable and scalable cloud solutions across our native cloud platforms. You'll work closely with our AI Centre of Excellence, technology partners and delivery teams, helping to shape how cloud services are used safely and effectively across the Bank.

In this role, you will:

• Design cloud infrastructure and platform solutions that meet business needs while aligning with Bank policies and security standards.
• Provide practical guidance on cloud adoption, supporting teams and partners with solution design and implementation.
• Find opportunities to optimise cost, performance and innovation across our public cloud platforms.
• Communicate architectural designs clearly to both technical and non-technical partners, embedding security by design.
• Create reusable patterns and guardrails to accelerate safe cloud adoption and support the onboarding of new services related to AI.

What will make you stand out?

You bring a strong understanding of cloud native architecture and enjoy solving complex problems in a practical, collaborative way.

You are comfortable working with public cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure, and have hands‑on experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation. Python is also a differential.

You value clear documentation and can explain technical concepts in a way that works for different audiences. Strong relationship building skills help you work effectively across teams and with partners.

Experience with the following will help you stand out but is not required to apply for this role:

• Experience of both AWS and Azure environments
• Exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) services, such as AWS Bedrock and Agent Core
• Experience working in regulated or financial services environments
• Familiarity with DevOps and continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices

Essential Qualifications

There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.

More about the team

The Cloud Centre of Excellence enables secure and effective cloud adoption across Bank of Ireland and acts as a trusted advisor to our technology teams.

Working closely with Infrastructure Operations, the team focuses on platform stability, security and continuous improvement, ensuring the Bank has the technology needed to serve customers safely and reliably.

This is a hybrid role, based primarily in ITC Centre Cabinteely. We typically ask colleagues to spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person to support teamwork and connection.

Specific arrangements will be confirmed by your recruiter to ensure they meet the needs of the role and team.

Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 25 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions.

Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!

Key Competencies

• Customer Focused - People Manager
• Better together - Leader
• Be Decisive - Leader
• Take Ownership - Leader
• Manage Risk - People Manager

We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.