Senior Cloud Architect – 6 to 18 month contract in Dublin

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead a multi‑year infrastructure migration for a Tier 1 global financial institution. The role focuses on designing and delivering secure, compliant, and scalable cloud solutions for regulatory reporting platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across cloud migration and platform modernisation initiatives.
• Define enterprise cloud architecture principles, standards, and governance.
• Design scalable, resilient cloud solutions for regulatory reporting workloads.
• Develop migration strategies leveraging AWS and SaaS capabilities, both single‑tenant and multi‑tenant.
• Align architecture with regulatory, security, and data‑governance requirements.
• Lead architecture governance and design review sessions.
• Optimise cloud performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Required profile

• Extensive experience delivering large‑scale cloud migration projects for global financial institutions.
• Strong expertise in cloud architecture and design, especially with AWS.
• Background in financial services and regulatory reporting platforms (e.g., AXIOM).
• Proven ability to work in global delivery environments.
• High‑level understanding of financial regulations and key asset classes such as debt, equity, and commodities.

Required skills

• AWS
• SaaS platforms
• AXIOM (regulatory reporting platform)
• Cloud migration
• Cloud architecture
• Multi‑tenant framework design