About this role
<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">Who we are</H2> </div><div><p><span>Sumitomo Mitsui Finance Dublin Limited (SMFD) is a wholly owned subsidiary of SMBC and is growing rapidly as a Centre of Excellence for the bank’s universal banking business across EMEA. It provides a range of technology and operational support services, aligned to SMBC’s growth, innovation, and transformation strategies</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">Role Summary</H2> </div><div><p>This is an exciting opportunity to join the Architecture & Engineering function at a pivotal stage in SMBC EMEA's technology transformation journey. </p> <p>The Cloud Engineering Team is responsible for designing, building, and operating a secure, resilient, and compliant Azure cloud platform to support SMBC’s EMEA technology strategy within a regulated banking environment. The team plays a central role in enabling cloud adoption, platform modernisation, automation, and engineering best practices, while delivering scalable, reliable, and secure technology capabilities that support strategic business and technology objectives across the region. </p> <p>This hands-on role will help shape the best-in-class cloud foundation that enables both cloud-native development and the migration and modernisation of existing applications, while adhering to regulatory expectations, internal risk frameworks, and enterprise governance standards. </p> <p>The role will ensure that security, control, and operational resilience are embedded by design through an “everything-as-code” approach, delivering a platform that meets the highest standards of auditability, reliability, and regulatory compliance. </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">Background and Organizational Context</H2> </div><div><p>The EMEA Architecture & Engineering domain provides the core technology foundations and architectural oversight that enable the wider organization to adopt to operate effectively and achieve its strategic objectives. By defining standards, governing solution design, and promoting best practices, the department ensures a consistent, scalable, and resilient technology landscape. It works closely with regional and global stakeholders to support the successful delivery of business outcomes, requiring strong cross-functional and cross-regional collaboration. </p> <p>This role is well suited to individuals with a strong understanding of technology concepts, who can balance strategic awareness with practical technical delivery, and who are comfortable working across teams to influence and enable successful technology outcomes. It will appeal to those focused on delivering technology-driven initiatives who can collaborate effectively across functions and regions, including engineering solutions that can reduce the barrier to entry to cloud platforms. </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">Scale and Scope</H2> </div><div><p>Regional responsibility for the EMEA cloud platform, supporting banking operations and regulated workloads across multiple jurisdictions </p> <p>Ownership of the Azure cloud platform underpinning critical business services and customer-facing applications </p> <p>Supports both: </p> <p> Cloud-native platforms and digital innovation initiatives </p> <p> Migration and modernisation of legacy and on-premises banking systems </p> <p>Accountability for central cloud services including identity, access control, network security, shared hosting platforms, observability, and resilience </p> <p>Operating within a regulated environment aligned to regulatory requirements, operational resilience frameworks, and internal risk policies </p> <p>Working closely with Architecture, Infrastructure, Data, Information Security, Risk, Compliance, and Audit functions </p> <p>Acting as a senior technical contributor with hands-on engineering responsibility while influencing broader platform strategy</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">Knowledge, Skills & Experience</H2> </div><div><p>Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, particularly in building enterprise-scale, regulated environments </p> <p>Strong understanding of Azure landing zones, management groups, policy frameworks, and governance models </p> <p>Experience with cloud platform engineering technologies, especially Kubernetes, OpenShift and the broader K8S ecosystem </p> <p>Exposure to multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP) advantageous </p> <p>Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools with Terraform of particular interest </p> <p>Experience implementing fully automated, auditable deployment pipelines in regulated environments </p> <p>Strong knowledge of cloud security principles, including zero-trust, identity-first security models, and encryption </p> <p>Experience operating within regulated environments (e.g. FCA or equivalent), including audits, controls, and compliance processes </p> <p>Experience designing highly available, resilient cloud architectures supporting critical services </p> <p>Knowledge of disaster recovery, backup strategies, and operational resilience frameworks </p> <p>Experience integrating on-premises systems with cloud platforms, including networking and identity federation </p> <p>Strong understanding of Azure networking and secure connectivity models (e.g. VPN, ExpressRoute) </p> <p>Strong hands-on engineering background with a focus on building and running platforms </p> <p>Commitment to automation, repeatability, and eliminating manual processes </p> <p>Azure certifications beneficial</p></div></div></div>