Head of Cloud Platform

Phoenix Group
London, Edinburgh
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Hands-on leadership","Architecture leadership","Technical authority","Influencing","Accountability"]

Lead cloud platform strategy and architecture across the estate, setting standards and guardrails that help engineering teams deliver secure, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions. Take a hands-on approach to architecture leadership, using deep AWS expertise to build secure-by-design prototypes and reference implementations. Drive simplification and embed security, resilience, compliance, and AI/ML capabilities into cloud patterns, engineering practices, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability.

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Phoenix Group
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Head of Cloud Platform

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Job Summary

Lead cloud platform strategy and architecture across the estate, setting standards and guardrails that help engineering teams deliver secure, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions. Take a hands-on approach to architecture leadership, using deep AWS expertise to build secure-by-design prototypes and reference implementations. Drive simplification and embed security, resilience, compliance, and AI/ML capabilities into cloud patterns, engineering practices, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability.
Location: London, Edinburgh
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set direction and guardrails for cloud across the estate to enable secure, resilient, cost-effective solutions.
  • •Provide hands-on architecture leadership for cloud platforms, particularly AWS, designing, building, and deploying prototypes and reference solutions.
  • •Define cloud strategy, principles, and target architectures aligned to business priorities and enterprise architecture/AI strategy, including cost model-driven roadmaps.
  • •Establish and enforce engineering standards and guardrails, simplifying across engineering, data, AI, and security.
  • •Act as architectural authority for cloud and AI direction, embedding security, resilience, compliance, and secure-by-design principles aligned to standards and frameworks.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 140,000 annually
Perks:Private MedicalAnnual LeavePensionLife AssuranceIncome ProtectionVolunteering Days

Key Requirements

  • •Deep hands-on expertise across AWS services and cloud-native architectures, with ability to design, build, and deploy solutions and prototypes.
  • •Proven ability to define cloud strategy, principles, and target architectures aligned to business priorities, Group Enterprise Architecture, and AI strategy.
  • •Experience establishing standards and guardrails for engineering teams using secure-by-design cloud-native prototypes and reference implementations.
  • •Strong understanding of cloud security principles and embedding security into engineering practices and pipelines.
  • •Strong understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability/security, with defined standards and practices.
Skills:Hands-on leadershipArchitecture leadershipTechnical authorityInfluencingAccountability
Tech Stack:AWSCloud-nativeCloud securityAI/MLCI/CDInfrastructure as codeObservabilitySecurity-by-designPrototypesReference implementations

Company Brief

Phoenix Group
A UK long-term savings and retirement business operating brands including Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure, managing pensions, annuities and wealth solutions with c.12 million customers and large assets under administration.
Industry: Wealth Management
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1782
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