SVP, Senior Cloud Engineer (Data & AI Platform), Group Technology (WD87133)

Business Function

Group Technology enables and empowers the bank with an efficient,nimbleand resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology,peoplecapability and innovation. In Group Technology, we managethe majority ofthe Bank's operational processes andinspire to delightour business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels.

Job Responsibilities

As a Senior Cloud Engineer(Data & AI platform), you willbe responsible forthe design, engineering, reliability and operational excellence of enterprise-scale data,analyticsand agentic aiplatforms running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will partner with architects, data engineers, datascientistsand platform teams to deliver scalable,secureand resilient cloud solutions supportingagentic,analytics, AI/MLand business-critical workloads. You will provide technical leadership, drive engineering bestpracticesand serve as an escalation point for complex production issues.

• Design and support infrastructure capabilities enabling enterprise agentic frameworks and AI agent deployment patterns.




• Design, implement andoperatehighly scalableand resilientdata and analytics platforms on GCP handling large-scale workloads.




• Analysebusiness and technical requirements and translate them into secure,resilientand cost-efficient solution designs.




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




• Design,engineerandoperatecloud infrastructure supporting AI/ML and Generative AI workloads.




• Support enterprise adoption of AI platforms, model serving environments and agentic application architectures.




• Implement cloud-native engineering practices includingInfrastructure asCode, CI/CD, automatedtestingandDevSecOpscontrols.




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




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




• Drive observability,monitoringand reliability improvements through SRE principles,automationand proactive capacity management.




• Optimiseperformance,scalabilityand cost acrossBigQuery,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,platformor cloud engineering experience with at least 5 years in GCP.




• Experience supporting or engineering platforms that enable AI/ML, Generative AI or Agentic workloads will be highly advantageous.




• Strong hands-on experience designing,implementingandoperatingenterprise-scale solutions on GCP.




• DeepexpertiseinBigQuery,Dataproc, Cloud Storage and cloud-native data platforms.




• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes,Dockerandcontainerisedworkloads in production environments.




• Strongproficiencyin 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.




• Demonstratedexperiencetroubleshooting complex distributed stems and cloud-native workloads.




• Experience leading root cause analysis, problemmanagementand operational improvement initiatives.




• Hands-on experience with infrastructure monitoring, observability, loganalysisand incident response.




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




• Strong stakeholder management,communicationand technical leadership skills.




• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.

Nice to Have

• Google Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud DevOpsEngineeror Professional Data Engineer certification.




• Experience leading engineering squads or serving astechnicallead for cloud initiatives.




• Development experience in Python and/or Java.




• Experience with Kafka and event-drivenarchitectures.




• Experience withOpenTelemetry,Grafanaor Prometheus.




• Experience with SQL platforms including PostgreSQL and MySQL.




• Experience supporting regulated enterprise orfinancial-servicesenvironments.
  

  We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and the professional advantages of a dynamic environment that supports your development and recognises your achievements.