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About the Role
Huxley seeks an experienced Cloud Architect with Azure and GCP expertise for a 12-month onsite contract in Riyadh within the banking sector. The role involves designing scalable cloud architectures, leading cloud transformation, and ensuring compliance with banking regulations.
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Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures across Azure and GCP environments
- Lead cloud transformation and modernization initiatives within a banking environment
- Develop cloud architecture frameworks, standards, governance models, and best practices
- Create target state architectures and cloud adoption roadmaps aligned with business objectives
- Ensure cloud solutions comply with banking security, regulatory, and compliance requirements
- Drive migration of applications, databases, and infrastructure workloads to cloud platforms
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, application, and business teams to deliver cloud solutions
- Conduct architecture reviews, risk assessments, and design assurance activities
- Define disaster recovery, business continuity, and resilience strategies
- Optimize cloud environments for performance, scalability, cost management, and operational excellence
- Support DevOps, automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and CI/CD implementation
- Act as the cloud subject matter expert for architecture and strategic cloud initiatives
Requirements
- Minimum 10+ years of overall IT experience
- Minimum 5+ years in Cloud Architecture roles
- Strong hands on experience with both Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Must have worked for a Saudi Bank or GCC Bank
- Proven experience delivering enterprise cloud transformation projects within the banking or financial services sector
- Strong understanding of cloud security, governance, identity management, and regulatory compliance
- Experience with hybrid cloud and multi cloud architectures
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Full Job Posting
Role Overview
- We are seeking an experienced Cloud Architect with a strong background in designing and delivering enterprise cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) within the banking sector.
- The successful candidate will play a key role in defining cloud strategy, architecture, governance, security, and migration initiatives for a leading financial institution in Riyadh.
- IMPORTANT: Applicants must have prior experience working directly for a Saudi Arabian Bank or a GCC based Bank. This requirement is mandatory.
- This is a full time onsite position based in Riyadh. Remote working is not available.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures across Azure and GCP environments.
- Lead cloud transformation and modernization initiatives within a banking environment.
- Develop cloud architecture frameworks, standards, governance models, and best practices.
- Create target state architectures and cloud adoption roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
- Ensure cloud solutions comply with banking security, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
- Drive migration of applications, databases, and infrastructure workloads to cloud platforms.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, application, and business teams to deliver cloud solutions.
- Conduct architecture reviews, risk assessments, and design assurance activities.
- Define disaster recovery, business continuity, and resilience strategies.
- Optimize cloud environments for performance, scalability, cost management, and operational excellence.
- Support DevOps, automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and CI/CD implementation.
- Act as the cloud subject matter expert for architecture and strategic cloud initiatives.
Mandatory Requirements
- Minimum 10+ years of overall IT experience.
- Minimum 5+ years in Cloud Architecture roles.
- Strong hands on experience with both Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Must have worked for a Saudi Bank or GCC Bank (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, or Oman) Mandatory.
- Proven experience delivering enterprise cloud transformation projects within the banking or financial services sector.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, governance, identity management, and regulatory compliance.
- Experience with hybrid cloud and multi cloud architectures.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
What We're Looking For
- Strong banking domain expertise.
- Ability to engage with senior stakeholders and technology leadership teams.
- Experience delivering large scale cloud transformation programs.
- Strategic thinker with hands on technical capability.
- Strong understanding of enterprise security and regulatory requirements within financial services.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Cloud Architect | Azure & GCP | Riyadh | Banking
- We are hiring a Cloud Architect with 10+ years of experience and strong expertise across Azure and GCP for a 12 month onsite contract in Riyadh.
- ✅ 10+ years IT experience
- ✅ Azure & GCP Architecture expertise
- ✅ Banking industry background
- ✅ MUST have worked for a Saudi Bank or GCC Bank
- ✅ Onsite in Riyadh (No Remote Work)
- ✅ Immediate or short notice preferred
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