About this role
<p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Who we are</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Worldline helps businesses of all shapes and sizes to accelerate their growth journey - quickly, simply, and securely. We are the innovators at the heart of the payments technology industry, shaping how the world pays and gets paid. Our technology powers the growth of millions of businesses across 5 continents. And just as we help our customers accelerate their business, we are committed to helping our people accelerate their careers. Together, we shape the evolution.</span></p><div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>The opportunity</b></H2> </div><div><p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Join us as Head of Sovereign Cloud where you will lead the product strategy, delivery, and operations of our sovereign cloud internal platform. You'll 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.</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Day-to-day responsibilities</b></H2> </div><div><p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Define sovereign cloud vision, target operating model, and multi-year roadmap aligned to payment product growth and regulatory requirements</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Lead the design and implementation of sovereign landing zones, secure connectivity, key management, identity and privileged access, logging/monitoring, and compliance automation</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Define and enforce guardrails (policies, templates, golden paths) that make compliant deployments the default whilst providing self-service capabilities</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Partner with Risk/Compliance and Security teams to meet regulatory requirements including PCI DSS, SOC 2/ISAE 3402, ISO 27001, DORA, and GDPR</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Manage CapEx and OpEx budgets, control costs, and provide financial guidance to other departments</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Develop SRE and operational practices tailored for sovereign environments, including incident response and disaster recovery testing</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Drive threat modelling, control validation, and vulnerability management for cloud infrastructure components</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Translate regulatory and customer requirements into actionable deliverables whilst aligning stakeholders on trade-offs and timelines</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Enable internal product and engineering teams through clear documentation, reference implementations, and onboarding support</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Build and lead a high-performing team, setting goals, developing talent, and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Who are we looking for</b></H2> </div><div><p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">We look for big thinkers. People who can drive positive change, step up and show what's next – people with passion, can-do attitude and a hunger to learn and grow. In practice this means:</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• 10+ years in cloud infrastructure/platform engineering or security engineering, including 3+ years leading teams and complex programmes</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Hands-on experience designing and operating regulated cloud environments (PCI, SOC 2, ISO 27001) with audit-ready evidence production</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Strong understanding of sovereign cloud principles: data residency, jurisdictional control, tenant isolation, and operational independence</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Proficiency with modern cloud architectures and tooling (AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, policy-as-code)</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Deep knowledge of identity and access management, encryption/key management, network segmentation, and logging/monitoring in cloud environments</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Track record of delivering highly available, low-latency services with disaster recovery controls suitable for payment processing</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills to align management teams, engineers, auditors, and internal customers</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">• Experience in payments, financial services regulation, or European resilience programmes (DORA) would be advantageous<br><br></span></p> <table style="border-collapse:collapse;width:43.0pt" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><colgroup><col style="width:43.0pt"></colgroup> <tbody> <tr style="height:14.4pt"> <td style="width:43.0pt;padding-top:1.0px;padding-right:1.0px;padding-left:1.0px;color:black;font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:400.0;font-style:normal;font-family:'Aptos Narrow', sans-serif;vertical-align:bottom;white-space:nowrap;border:medium none currentcolor" align="left"><span style="background-color:azure;color:white">#LI-LS1</span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p></div></div></div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Shape the evolution </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We are on an exciting journey towards the next frontiers of payments technology, and we look for big thinkers, people with passion, can-do attitude and a hunger to learn and grow. Here you'll work with ambitious colleagues from around the world, take on unique challenges as a team, and make a real impact on the society. With an empowering culture, strong technology and extensive training opportunities, we help you accelerate your career - wherever you decide to go. Join our global team of 18,000 innovators and shape a tomorrow that is yours to own. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Learn more about life at Worldline at jobs.worldline.com</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as an individual with a disability, or any applicable legally protected characteristics.</span></p>