SVP/VP, Senior Cloud Engineer, Data Platform, Group Technology

Business Function  

Group Technology enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group Technology, we manage the majority of the Bank's operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels.  

Job Responsibilities  

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, engineering, reliability and operational excellence of enterprise-scale data and analytics platforms running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will partner with architects, data engineers, data scientists and platform teams to deliver scalable, secure and resilient cloud solutions supporting analytics, AI/ML and business-critical workloads. You will provide technical leadership, drive engineering best practices and serve as an escalation point for complex production issues.  

• Design, implement and operate highly scalable distributed data and analytics platforms on GCP handling large-scale workloads.  

• Analyse business and technical requirements and translate them into secure, resilient and cost-efficient solution designs. 

• Analyse business and technical requirements and translate them into secure, resilient and cost-efficient solution designs.  

• Lead technical design discussions and contribute to architecture reviews and engineering governance activities.  

• Partner with architects to evaluate architectural trade-offs and recommend appropriate cloud-native solutions.  

• Design and optimise platforms supporting AI/ML, analytics and agentic workloads.  

• Implement cloud-native engineering practices including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automated testing and DevSecOps controls.  

• Lead troubleshooting and remediation of complex production issues across infrastructure, data platforms, Kubernetes and distributed systems.  

• Act as L3 escalation point for major incidents, drive root cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions.  

• Drive observability, monitoring and reliability improvements through SRE principles, automation and proactive capacity management.  

• Optimise performance, scalability and cost across BigQuery, Dataproc, Spark and related cloud services.  

• Mentor junior engineers, conduct design/code reviews and promote engineering best practices. 

• Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging cloud technologies to improve platform capabilities.  

Job Requirements  

• 10+ years of infrastructure, platform or cloud engineering experience with at least 5 years in GCP.  

• Strong hands-on experience designing, implementing and operating enterprise-scale solutions on GCP.  

• Deep expertise in BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud Storage and cloud-native data platforms.  

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker and containerised workloads in production environments.  

• Strong proficiency in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.  

• Experience architecting and supporting production workloads across hybrid cloud environments.  

• Strong knowledge of Spark and schema formats such as Avro and Parquet.  

• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems and cloud-native workloads.  

• Experience leading root cause analysis, problem management and operational improvement initiatives.  

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure monitoring, observability, log analysis and incident response.  

• Ability to implement and automate workload-level security controls within GCP.  

• Strong stakeholder management, communication and technical leadership skills.  

• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.  

Nice to Have  

• Google Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer or Professional Data Engineer certification.  

• Experience leading engineering squads or serving as technical lead for cloud initiatives.  

• Development experience in Python and/or Java.  

• Experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures.  

• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana or Prometheus.  

• Experience with SQL platforms including PostgreSQL and MySQL.  

• Experience supporting regulated enterprise or financial-services environments.