Head of Sovereign Cloud

The opportunity

Join us as Head of Sovereign Cloud where you will lead the product strategy delivery and operations of our sovereign cloud internal platform. Youll enable internal engineering teams to run regulated payment workloads with the required levels of data residency access controls encryption and operational independence. This leadership role involves partnering across Engineering Architecture Security Risk/Compliance Legal and IT Operations to design compliant reference architectures and scale reliable environments across required jurisdictions.

Day-to-day responsibilities

Define sovereign cloud vision target operating model and multi-year roadmap aligned to payment product growth and regulatory requirements

Lead the design and implementation of sovereign landing zones secure connectivity key management identity and privileged access logging/monitoring and compliance automation

Define and enforce guardrails (policies templates golden paths) that make compliant deployments the default whilst providing self-service capabilities

Partner with Risk/Compliance and Security teams to meet regulatory requirements including PCI DSS SOC 2/ISAE 3402 ISO 27001 DORA and GDPR

Manage CapEx and OpEx budgets control costs and provide financial guidance to other departments

Develop SRE and operational practices tailored for sovereign environments including incident response and disaster recovery testing

Drive threat modelling control validation and vulnerability management for cloud infrastructure components

Translate regulatory and customer requirements into actionable deliverables whilst aligning stakeholders on trade-offs and timelines

Enable internal product and engineering teams through clear documentation reference implementations and onboarding support

Build and lead a high-performing team setting goals developing talent and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement

Who are we looking for

We look for big thinkers. People who can drive positive change step up and show whats next people with passion can-do attitude and a hunger to learn and practice this means:

10 years in cloud infrastructure/platform engineering or security engineering including 3 years leading teams and complex programmes

Hands-on experience designing and operating regulated cloud environments (PCI SOC 2 ISO 27001) with audit-ready evidence production

Strong understanding of sovereign cloud principles: data residency jurisdictional control tenant isolation and operational independence

Proficiency with modern cloud architectures and tooling (AWS/Azure/GCP Kubernetes Infrastructure as Code CI/CD policy-as-code)

Deep knowledge of identity and access management encryption/key management network segmentation and logging/monitoring in cloud environments

Track record of delivering highly available low-latency services with disaster recovery controls suitable for payment processing

Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills to align management teams engineers auditors and internal customers

Experience in payments financial services regulation or European resilience programmes (DORA) would be advantageous