Hybrid Cloud (Modernise) Programme Lead

Job Title Hybrid Cloud (Modernise) Programme Lead

Location London

Corporate Title Director

The Hybrid Cloud Programme Delivery Director will lead the delivery of strategic hybrid cloud programmes that are transforming the bank's technology landscape. You will oversee complex, multi-million-pound initiatives spanning cloud migration, platform modernisation, automation, and Service Transition. By partnering with senior stakeholders across Technology, Operations, Infrastructure Engineering, Architecture, Finance, and Risk, you will ensure successful delivery of critical Technology outcomes, improved service resilience, accelerated technology adoption, and sustainable cost optimisation. Your leadership will directly influence how the organisation modernises its Hybrid Cloud platform and delivers future-ready technology capabilities.

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What we’ll offer you.

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:  

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them

• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension

• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days

• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family

• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits

• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of the Hybrid Cloud Modernise programme, driving successful execution of infrastructure transformation initiatives across private cloud, virtualisation, storage, network, and platform services.

• Own programme governance, financial management, planning, risk management, dependency management, and delivery reporting across multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives.

• Lead geographically distributed teams, third-party suppliers, and technology partners to deliver complex transformation outcomes within agreed scope, budget, and timeline commitments.

• Provide executive leadership and regular updates to senior stakeholders, steering committees, and technology leadership teams, translating technical delivery into business outcomes and value.

• Drive migration and modernisation initiatives including Private Cloud transformation, workload migration, platform optimisation, application migration, decommissioning, and operational readiness activities.

• Identify and realise financial benefits through cost optimisation, technology simplification, automation, operational efficiency, and cloud consumption governance.

Your skills and experience

• Extensive experience leading large-scale technology transformation programmes within complex global organisations, preferably across financial services or highly regulated environments.

• Proven track record delivering hybrid cloud, infrastructure modernisation, virtualisation, and public cloud migration programmes with budgets exceeding £20m and multiple concurrent delivery streams.

• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, infrastructure services, automation, platform engineering, and cloud operating models.

• Demonstrable experience managing senior stakeholders, executive committees, and board-level reporting, with the ability to influence strategic decisions and gain alignment across diverse business and technology teams.

• Strong commercial acumen with experience managing technology vendors, contract negotiations, business cases, financial forecasting, benefits realisation, and cost optimisation initiatives.

• Exceptional programme leadership skills including governance, risk management, organisational change, resource planning, dependency management, and delivery assurance across global teams.

• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career

• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities

• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on adjustmentsconcierge@db.com to discuss.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.