CIB Cloud Lead

Overview

As Head of CIB Cloud, you will lead the cloud strategy and governance for HSBC’s Corporate, Investment Banking (CIB) arm, with GCP at the core. You’ll partner with the central CTO Cloud team to establish a resilient, cost-efficient cloud platform and standardised operating models across globally distributed functions. You will align cloud initiatives with risk, regulatory, and technology standards, driving measurable progress and enabling engineers to operate consistently across cloud platforms. This is a strategic role with high visibility and a clear impact on regulatory outcomes and enterprise-scale cloud capability.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the CIB cloud strategy aligned to CTO, CIB and Group technology strategies
• Define target state for cloud adoption, platform usage, and engineering capability across CIB globally
• Set objectives and measurable results for direct and virtual teams; act as escalation point for cloud incidents, risks and delivery decisions
• Own the FinOps agenda including budgeting, forecasting, chargeback/showback, cost allocation and optimisation
• Oversee cloud infrastructure and service management for availability, capacity, performance, resilience and operational support
• Govern the CIB cloud risk and control agenda including risk assessments, control design and remediation
• Represent CIB Technology in regulatory engagements, audits and information requests on cloud services
• Shape cloud solutioning and architecture governance with standardised patterns, IaC, automation, observability and secure-by-design practices

Key requirements

• Extensive experience overseeing GCP-focused cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering or technology transformation in a large, regulated organisation
• Deep knowledge of public and hybrid cloud covering networking, compute, storage, databases, identity, security, monitoring, resilience and automation
• Strong experience in cloud architecture, solution design and design governance with enterprise-scale standards
• Proven FinOps capability including cost governance, optimisation, forecasting and financial accountability
• Understanding of technology risk and control frameworks, operational resilience and regulatory expectations
• Experience representing technology in regulatory reviews, risk forums, audits or assurance activities
• Experience with central cloud platform teams to build, adopt, govern and standardise enterprise cloud services
• Record of delivering major cloud migration, infrastructure modernisation or technology transformation programmes

• Stakeholder management
• Collaborative and adaptable mindset
• Strong communication for regulatory and senior stakeholder engagement
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) expertise
• Cloud architecture and design governance
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

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