The Company:
Is a Top-Tier International Investment Bank head-quartered in Sydney. The bank has recently embarked on a large scale, bank-wide (5 year) Digital Transformation Initiative. 

The four main pillars of the transformation are: 
Simplification = Consolidating similar systems that do the same thing 
Automation = eradicating needless manual processes wherever possible
Digitisation = modernising all of their client facing front ends (new responsive technologies) 
Data = utilising big data tools for more efficient and effect reporting & analytics 

The Project:
As part of this program of work, the bank plans to build an innovative and future-ready Data Platform that will help the various capital markets business areas meet their customer's needs, be regulatory compliant and be able to confidently translate and use their data.

This team will take ownership of all data across all financial product groups, they will focus on data-gathering, analysis and then visualisation to the business areas. 

The Role:
As a Senior Cloud Architect, you will be responsible for the Cloud Architecture as well as implementation analysis of the banks next generation Big Data/Data Analytics platforms. You will be interacting with various senior product stakeholders as well as working closely with a very innovative data implementation team.

Being a large, heterogeneous environment, you must be able to take a step back and see the bigger picture. Whilst the pursuit of technical excellence is admirable, this can be tempered by security, scalability and wider-environment constraints. The ideal candidate will be able to balance these objectives and express their design and engineering creativity within a sometimes restricted scope and in a very consultative manner. 
 
You will be expected to the share responsibility with regards to towards improving quality, continuous delivery, production support and be passionate when it comes to growing the DevOps maturity of the group.

Requirements:
-Strong Cloud Architecture experience/background 
-Previous consulting experience- nice to have 
-Strong financial services/markets experience and knowledge 
-Amazon - AWS implementation exp 
-Strong technically - Polyglot/multi-discipline design - Java, Scala, Python, C#, C++
-Big Data tools - Hadoop, Talend, Spark