Director - Head of Cloud - Bonhill Partners

Role: Head of Cloud

Designation: Director

Location: London, Liverpool Street. 3 days per week in office.

Requirements:

1. Lead the bank’s cloud strategy, architecture, and execution across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
2. Line/department management experience.
3. Own the design and delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient cloud platforms supporting front, middle, and back-office functions.
4. Drive cloud adoption across the organisation, partnering with engineering, infrastructure, security, risk, compliance, and business leadership.
5. Define and enforce cloud governance, operating models, standards, controls, and best practices across the enterprise.
6. Oversee cloud migration programmes, platform modernisation, and transformation of legacy infrastructure.
7. Ensure cloud environments meet regulatory, operational resilience, data security, and financial services compliance requirements.
8. Lead and develop high-performing cloud engineering, architecture, DevOps, and platform teams.
9. Manage relationships with major cloud providers, technology vendors, and strategic outsourcing partners.
10. Drive automation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native engineering practices.
11. Own cloud cost management, FinOps, capacity planning, and optimisation across the estate.
12. Work closely with cyber security teams to embed security-by-design across all cloud services and platforms.
13. Provide executive-level reporting on cloud strategy, delivery progress, risk, resilience, and investment priorities.
14. Support business growth by enabling faster, safer, and more reliable technology delivery.
15. Bring deep experience from banking, capital markets, or highly regulated financial services environments.
16. Act as a senior technology leader, influencing cloud direction across the wider enterprise technology function.