Cloud Architect - GCP (m/f/d)

Commerzbank Digital Technology Centre Poland; Łódź; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Development Plans for employees

Life insurance

flexible working hours

integration events

Job summary

Commerzbank Digital Technology Centre Poland is seeking a Cloud Architect to design and govern scalable Google Cloud Platform solutions in a regulated banking environment. You will define landing zones, security, and cost-efficient patterns while guiding cross-functional teams and aligning with enterprise standards.

The role requires strong GCP experience, IaC with Terraform, and excellent communication in English. Hybrid on-site work in Łódź with international collaboration is offered.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field, or comparable professional experience in cloud architecture.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale solutions on Google Cloud Platform, with strong understanding of networking, IAM, compute, storage and managed services.
• Experience in positioning BigQuery as a central data platform
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture principles, landing zones, security-by-design, disaster recovery, resilience and cost optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and familiarity with CI/CD, automation and governance frameworks.
• Ability to translate business and technical requirements into architecture decisions and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Very good English communication skills; experience in regulated environments such as banking or finance is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Design target-state cloud architectures on GCP, including landing zones, networking, identity, security, observability and integration patterns.
• Provide architectural guidance and governance for application and platform teams, ensuring solutions comply with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements and best practices.
• Define reusable architecture blueprints and reference implementations for infrastructure, deployment automation, resilience, scalability and cost efficiency.
• Drive cloud security architecture, including IAM concepts, segmentation, encryption, secret handling and policy enforcement across GCP services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across development, operations, security and business teams to support cloud transformation initiatives and continuous improvement.

Skills

Cloud architecture

GCP knowledge

BigQuery

Security-by-design

Disaster recovery

Cost optimization

IAM concepts

Observability

Effective communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Join our team as a Cloud Architect - GCP!

About The Team

Our team is part of Cost Processing & Transactions cluster. The cluster provides standard reporting for controlling group costs, processes the accounts payable and travel expense reports, and makes the system landscape available to numerous customers in the CFO department. We are a diverse international team with around 150 employees in Frankfurt, Bremen, Hamburg, Lodz and Prague and have clients in Germany and abroad. We are responsible for around 200 accounting and controlling processes and 45 IT products, from A as accounting to Z like Zet-Visions, and are therefore active in the heart of Commerzbank. With systems created by our team we are meeting demands which cannot be met by “box” products. We develop and maintain applications used in controlling environment (group and segment controlling) which provide planning, analysis and reporting functions. Working close with business we are able to quickly adapt them to current regulations and needs.

To define and govern scalable, secure and resilient Google Cloud Platform architecture standards and target solutions that enable enterprise applications and data platforms to run efficiently in a regulated banking environment, while ensuring alignment with security, compliance, automation and cost-optimization principles.

You Will Be Responsible For

• Design target-state cloud architectures on GCP, including landing zones, networking, identity, security, observability and integration patterns.
• Provide architectural guidance and governance for application and platform teams, ensuring solutions comply with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements and best practices.
• Define reusable architecture blueprints and reference implementations for infrastructure, deployment automation, resilience, scalability and cost efficiency.
• Drive cloud security architecture, including IAM concepts, segmentation, encryption, secret handling and policy enforcement across GCP services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across development, operations, security and business teams to support cloud transformation initiatives and continuous improvement.

Which technology & skills are important for us?

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or comparable professional experience in cloud architecture.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale solutions on Google Cloud Platform, with strong understanding of networking, IAM, compute, storage and managed services.
• Experience in positioning BigQuery as a central data platform
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture principles, landing zones, security-by-design, disaster recovery, resilience and cost optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (preferably Terraform) and familiarity with CI/CD, automation and governance frameworks.
• Ability to translate business and technical requirements into architecture decisions and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Very good English communication skills; experience in regulated environments such as banking or finance is an advantage.

Hybrid on Ogrodowa 8 street (Łódź)

What we offer?

• Development Plans for employees
• Life insurance
• flexible working hours
• integration events

Commerzbank is a leading international commercial bank with branches and offices in almost 50 countries. The world is changing, becoming digital, and so we are. We are leaving the traditional bank behind us and are choosing to move forward as a digital enterprise. This is exactly why we need talented people who will join us on this journey. We work in inter-locational and international teamwork in agile methodologies.