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• Are you passionate about designing enterprise cloud solutions that drive innovation, scalability, and digital transformation? Our client, a leading bank based in Sandton, is looking for an experienced Cloud Architect to lead the design, governance, and implementation of enterprise cloud platforms that are secure, resilient, and aligned to business strategy.
• This is an exciting opportunity to shape cloud architecture across large-scale transformation initiatives within a highly regulated banking environment.

What You'll Be Doing

• Define and drive the bank's enterprise cloud architecture and cloud adoption strategy.
• Design secure, scalable, highly available cloud solutions across Azure, AWS and GCP environments.
• Lead cloud transformation and application modernisation initiatives.
• Develop cloud governance frameworks, standards, and architectural best practices.
• Support migration of applications, infrastructure, and data to cloud platforms.
• Ensure cloud environments meet security, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, CI/CD, and DevOps best practices.
• Champion cloud operational excellence, resilience, disaster recovery, and FinOps cost optimisation.
• Provide architectural leadership to engineering teams, solution architects, and business stakeholders.
• Present architectural recommendations to senior leadership and governance forums.

What We're Looking For
Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Postgraduate qualification is advantageous.

Preferred Certifications
One or more of the following:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• Google Professional Cloud Architect
• TOGAF Certification
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• FinOps Practitioner Certification

Experience

• 8–12 years of IT experience.
• Minimum 5 years in Cloud Architecture roles.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale cloud solutions.
• Strong experience with cloud migration and modernisation programmes.
• Experience working across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Financial Services, Banking, Insurance, or other highly regulated industry experience is highly advantageous.
• Experience leading enterprise transformation initiatives.

Technical Skills
Cloud Platforms

• Microsoft Azure (preferred)
• AWS
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Infrastructure & Networking

• Virtual Networks
• Software Defined Networking
• VPN & ExpressRoute
• Load Balancing
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep)

DevOps & Automation

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Terraform
• Ansible
• PowerShell
• Python

Containers & Modern Platforms

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• OpenShift
• Container Security

Security & Governance

• Cloud Security Architecture
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• Zero Trust Architecture
• Encryption & Key Management
• Regulatory Compliance

Data & AI

• Azure Databricks
• Microsoft Fabric
• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2)
• AI/ML Platform Architecture
   

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• Are you passionate about cloud technologies, big data, and building modern data platforms? We're looking for an experienced Cloud Data Engineer to join a leading bank in Sandton and help deliver enterprise-scale cloud data solutions that power analytics, AI, and business decision-making.
• If you enjoy designing high-performance data pipelines, working with Azure cloud technologies, and transforming complex data into valuable business insights, this opportunity is for you.

What You'll Be Doing

• As a Cloud Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and optimising secure, scalable cloud-based data platforms and pipelines that support the bank's data-driven strategy.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing and developing scalable cloud data pipelines for batch and real-time processing.
• Building robust ETL/ELT solutions using Azure and modern data engineering technologies.
• Developing and maintaining enterprise Data Lakes and Data Warehouses.
• Working with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Databricks and Azure cloud services.
• Developing data ingestion frameworks for structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.
• Implementing DataOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and workflow orchestration.
• Ensuring data quality, governance, lineage and metadata management.
• Collaborating with Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Architects and business stakeholders to deliver scalable data products.
• Supporting cloud security, data privacy and POPIA compliance.
• Monitoring and optimising cloud data platforms for performance, scalability and reliability.
• Contributing to platform innovation, automation and continuous improvement.

What You'll Need
Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field.
• 2-5 years' experience in Data Engineering, Business Intelligence or Software Engineering.
• Experience building enterprise cloud data solutions.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.

Technical Skills
Experience with most of the following technologies:

• Microsoft Azure
• Microsoft Fabric
• Azure Data Factory
• Azure Databricks
• Python
• PySpark
• Apache Spark
• SQL
• Data Warehousing
• Data Lakes
• ETL / ELT Development
• CI/CD
• DataOps
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Kafka or Azure Event Hub
• Real-time and streaming data processing
• Metadata Management
• Data Quality & Data Governance

Advantageous experience:

• Ab Initio
• Azure Synapse
• SAS
• Denodo
• DB2 Warehouse
• Netezza