• Build trusted relationships with banking executives, technology leaders, enterprise architects, and delivery teams

• Lead strategic and technical discussions across cloud transformation, platform engineering, data, AI, security, and application modernization

• Translate banking business priorities, regulatory requirements, and operational challenges into credible technology strategies and executable programs

• Provide architecture-level guidance across Azure, AWS, and GCP, including hybrid- and multi-cloud environments

• Shape engagements from discovery and solution design through proposal development, mobilization, and delivery

• Develop account growth strategies in partnership with sales, delivery, and practice leadership

• Lead executive workshops, architecture reviews, proposals, roadmaps, and strategic presentations

• Remain actively involved in delivery to maintain client trust, support successful outcomes, and identify emerging priorities

• Mentor architects, consultants, and engineers working within banking accounts.

Requirements

Skills:

• Deep banking experience, including technology governance, risk, compliance, and investment decision-making

• Experience in one or more banking domains, such as retail, commercial, payments, lending, wealth, capital markets, risk, or finance

• Broad understanding of cloud, data, AI, cybersecurity, integration, and application modernization

• Demonstrated ability to assess complex technology environments and provide clear, practical direction

• Strong executive presence and the ability to communicate credibly with both senior executives and technical teams

Enterprise Cloud Engineering Fundamentals (Required):

Although this is not primarily a hands-on engineering role, candidates must have the technical depth to assess, shape, and challenge enterprise cloud solutions within large banking environments:

• Cloud Platform Architect-level knowledge of Azure, AWS, and/or GCP, including hybrid- and multi-cloud environments

• Platform engineering and shared cloud services designed for use across multiple teams and applications

• Cloud governance, landing zones, identity, networking, security, resilience, and observability

• Working knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, APIs, and modern application delivery practices

• Ability to evaluate technical approaches, identify risks, and explain recommendations to architects, engineers, and executives

Preferred / Nice to have:

• 10+ years of progressive experience across banking technology, cloud architecture, consulting, or technology leadership

• Experience working directly for a bank, advising banking clients, or both

• Previous experience in consulting, professional services, systems integration, or a technology-provider environment

• Demonstrated responsibility for account growth, business development, or market development

• Experience leading major cloud transformation, platform modernization, or enterprise technology programs within a regulated bank

• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and influencing without direct authority