Senior Cloud Platform Architect

Senior Cloud Platform Architect

Are you a cloud visionary ready to shape the future of enterprise-scale, multi-cloud infrastructure on a global stage? If you thrive on building secure, scalable, and innovative platforms that empower teams and drive real business value — we want to hear from you.

About the Role

As a Senior Cloud Platform Architect, you will be at the heart of designing and evolving a world-class multi-cloud platform that empowers application teams across a global organisation. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role where your architectural decisions will directly influence how technology enables business outcomes at scale. You will bring deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and a collaborative spirit to drive secure, compliant, and innovative cloud solutions — all while inspiring those around you to raise the bar.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable, secure, and compliant multi-cloud platform solutions that align with enterprise cloud strategy and governance frameworks

• Define and enforce cloud security policies, guardrails, and compliance standards across the platform to ensure consistent, risk-aware operations

• Lead platform engineering initiatives to build and operate shared cloud services, tools, and infrastructure that accelerate application team delivery

• Partner with application delivery teams to provide architectural guidance, enabling fast, secure, and compliant deployment of solutions in the cloud

• Drive innovation by evaluating emerging cloud technologies and integrating best practices into the platform roadmap

• Optimise platform operations by identifying opportunities to improve reliability, performance, cost efficiency, and developer experience

• Collaborate with Cloud Technology Management to ensure platform design and services are aligned with strategic steering and guidance

• Develop and maintain architectural documentation, standards, and reference architectures to support consistent platform adoption across the organisation

• Mentor and support engineering teams in cloud architecture best practices, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement

• Engage with stakeholders across engineering, security, and business units to translate requirements into robust cloud platform capabilities

• About the Team

• The Public Cloud Platform Delivery Team is a dynamic unit within the Engineering Platforms department, dedicated to enabling the organisation's cloud ambitions. The team owns and operates a sophisticated multi-cloud platform — managing security policies, service operations, and shared tooling that empowers application teams to deliver secure, compliant, and innovative solutions at pace. With a mission to design, build, and operate best-in-class cloud platforms and shared services, the team partners closely with application delivery teams to innovate in a fast, secure, and compliant way that drives measurable business value. Guided by Cloud Technology Management, the team is committed to providing an efficient, value-driven engineering experience that sets the standard for cloud excellence.

• About You

• You are a seasoned cloud professional who combines deep technical expertise with a collaborative and forward-thinking mindset. You thrive in complex, fast-moving environments and take pride in building platforms that others love to use. You communicate clearly, influence without authority, and bring a pragmatic approach to solving architectural challenges. You are passionate about security, compliance, and engineering excellence — and you inspire those around you to continuously grow and improve. We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

• Multi-cloud architecture expertise

• Proven experience designing and operating enterprise-scale platforms on two or more major cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), including network topology, identity management, and governance

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Strong hands-on proficiency with IaC tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or equivalent, with experience managing large-scale, modular infrastructure codebases

• Platform engineering and DevOps practices

• Solid experience building shared platform services, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling that enable application teams to self-serve in a secure and compliant manner

• Secure Landing Zones and platform design

• Demonstrated experience in secure landing zone design, platform automation, DevSecOps tooling, network topology and connectivity, access management and privileged identity design, platform monitoring, security architecture, and high availability architecture

• Cloud architecture and solution design

• Demonstrated ability to produce and communicate clear architectural designs, reference architectures, and technical roadmaps aligned with business and engineering strategy These are additional nice to haves:

• Experience designing disaster recovery and backup scenarios that meet non-functional requirements (NFRs), including accurate calculations for availability, RTO, and RPO

• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tooling across cloud environments

• Expertise in technology selection based on Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and organisational standards

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as .NET, Java, Python, or Ruby

• Strong stakeholder communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively with Engineering Directors, Managers, Architects, and engineering teams

• Comfort working in transformational, complex, and fast-paced environments with a strong bias for getting things done

• Proficiency in English (required)

• About Swiss Re

• Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance, and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.

• Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients — made possible by the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.

• Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought, or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment, everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.

• Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days per week.

• About Swiss Re

• Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.

• Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

• If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

• We may use AI-powered tools to support the review and evaluation of applications for this position. These tools provide additional insights to our recruitment teams, but all hiring decisions are carefully reviewed and made by people. To learn more about how we use AI in recruitment and how we handle your personal data, please review our Data Privacy Statement before applying.

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