Senior Cloud Architect – Digital Banking Platform (m/f/d)

Senior Cloud Architect – Digital Banking Platform

Role Summary

We're building a cutting-edge, cloud-native mobile banking platform and are seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead the design and implementation of foundational cloud infrastructure. You’ll be responsible for ensuring that the platform is scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-efficient on AWS or Azure. Following the Well-Architected Framework principles and best practices, you will own cloud architecture patterns, define Kubernetes-based deployment strategies, and guide platform-level decisions related to observability, security, and scalability.

Core Responsibilities

• Own and govern the cloud-native platform architecture for mobile banking applications on AWS or Azure.
• Set standards for cloud cost optimization, tenancy isolation, performance and secrets management.
• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade Kubernetes clusters, including networking, storage, security, and scaling mechanisms for microservices
• Drive the adoption and maturity of IaC practices using Terraform or equivalent, ensuring all infrastructure is version-controlled and automated
• Architect and implement solutions for high availability, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance across the cloud infrastructure
• Establish platform-wide observability patterns, tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Datadog, Dynatrace), and practices to ensure real-time visibility into platform health, performance, and user experience.
• Collaborate with security teams to embed security best practices into infrastructure design and deployment, ensuring regulatory compliance
  
  

Required Experience

• 12+ years of experience in cloud architecture, with significant hands-on experience designing and deploying scalable solutions on AWS or Azure.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) ecosystem, including cluster provisioning, service mesh (e.g., Istio), and container security.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code, networking, cloud security, and monitoring tools.
• Proven experience with observability tools and practices (logging, metrics, tracing) in a distributed systems environment.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security groups, VPCs, and identity and access management (IAM).
• Platform-building mindset, with a focus on enabling developer productivity through well-defined infrastructure.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Cloud certification (AWS Solutions Architect Pro / Azure Expert) strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting banking-grade compliance (PCI-DSS, etc. is a plus).
  
  

Additional Architectural knowledge on:

• Integration Patterns like
• Event Driven Architecture
• Remote Procedure Calls (gRPC, JSON-RPC, etc.)
• Web API’s (REST, etc)
• Data Replication (Vendor tools. Log based replication, CDC, Cloud based replication offerings)
• Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)
• Data processing using ETL and ELT
• Architectural Patterns
• Microservices architecture patterns
• Hexagonal/ Clean architecture
• Data access patterns (unit of work, lazy load
• Distributed patterns
• SAGA
• Circuit breaker
• Retry (API systems, messaging systems)
  
  

Halian Group:

With over 28 years of experience, we have come to understand that innovation is the only way to provide agile, practical solutions that transform businesses and careers.

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At Halian, we recognize that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are essential to building high-performing teams for our clients. We are committed to connecting organizations with top talent from all backgrounds, ensuring that every individual feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, gender, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them unique. By fostering diverse and inclusive workplaces, we help our clients drive innovation, enhance collaboration, and better reflect the communities they serve.

Senior Cloud Architect – Digital Banking Platform in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates