Associate, Sol Arch, Cloud

Purpose of Job

Step into a pivotal role where architecture meets innovation. As a Technology Architect in our Cloud and DevOps squads, you’ll shape the future of the Bank’s technology estate by designing scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions that deliver real business impact. From Azure to Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines to Infrastructure as Code, you’ll guide engineering teams to bring elegant, robust designs to life. This is your chance to define how enterprise platforms evolve, ensuring agility, resilience, and modernisation across both cloud and on-premise environments.

You’ll thrive at the crossroads of strategy and delivery, influencing enterprise-wide decisions while working hands-on with cutting-edge tools and practices. Collaborating with architects, product teams, and senior stakeholders, you’ll translate vision into actionable designs, champion innovation, and drive adoption of best practices across Cloud and DevOps. If you’re ready to make your mark as a trusted leader in shaping next-generation platforms, with the autonomy to innovate and the scope to transform, this is the opportunity to do it.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Ensure all technical designs and implementation plans align with the Bank’s IT Strategy, including Cyber Security governance, IT Service Management practices, and Quality First principles. Operate within the Agile Framework, collaborating closely with teams to deliver business value efficiently and effectively. Contribute to the Enterprise Architecture Community of Practice and maintain architecture documentation for your area of specialism, supporting consistent architecture practices and knowledge sharing.
• Translate enterprise, capability, and solution architecture strategies into coherent, effective, and elegant low-level designs that maximise business value. Define and document implementation approaches, guiding engineering teams in interpreting and operationalising these designs. Collaborate with Business Analysts, Engineers, Solution Architects, and Product teams within squads or capabilities to ensure alignment and successful delivery. Contribute to harmonisation of systems and infrastructure, and adapt architecture as needed to meet current and future project requirements, while ensuring agility, scalability, and resilience across the technology stack.
• Collaborate with architecture peers to analyse enterprise business context and strategic trends to shape future-state technology architecture. Define principles, models, and migration plans that guide technology decision-making and align with budget and capital planning cycles. Propose and support the adoption of innovative technologies to modernise and transform the IT estate. Guide the development of architecture deliverables, including low-level and high-level designs, and conduct technology evaluations and market research to support informed decisions. Support presentations and recommendations to governance bodies such as Technology and Programme Steering Committees.
• Responsible for the Technology Architecture of Cloud and DevOps Squads and their integrations as part of Platform Architecture
• The technologies in scope include the following, which will develop in line with our evolving strategy
• Microsoft Azure Containers and associated orchestration tools.
• Enterprise scale applications, API Gateways, high availability architectures, load balancing and disaster recovery.
• RBAC (Role Based Access Control)
• Design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines including production deployments
• Configuration management, Observability, Package, Provisioning (IaC tools)
• Applying Cloud and DevOps tooling and practices to optimise on-premise workloads
• Technology to support the migration of workloads between on-premise and hyperscale cloud environments.
• Support the integration and re-architecting of applications to operate in hyperscale cloud environments.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

•     Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly, both in written and verbal formats, particularly when engaging with stakeholders.

•     Experience in capturing technical requirements and documenting them in written and pictorial (e.g. PowerPoint, Visio).

•     Experience in engaging with business and IT stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure alignment between architecture and business goals.

•     Educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent relevant experience.

•     Experience working within Agile, DevOps, and product-aligned teams, contributing to sprint-based and continuous delivery.

•     Demonstrable experience working within TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) with deep understanding of its application.

•     Experience in designing, implementing and supporting hyperscale cloud architectures.

•     Experience in designing, implementing and supporting microservice oriented, containerised solutions.

•     Experience in supporting the development of DevOps ways of working across traditional teams.

•     Understanding of software development principles and troubleshooting application issues.

•     Understanding of infrastructure management principles, FinOps tuning and troubleshooting practices.

•     Understanding of performance monitoring approaches.

•     Experience in working with Managed Service Providers and Professional Service Partners.

•     Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Terraform or similar for automating workflows.

•     Candidates should hold recognised DevOps certifications or be able to demonstrate equivalent practical experience. Preferred certifications include:

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Docker Certified Associate (DCA)
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
• Terraform Associate Certification

What is it like to work at the EBRD?

Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in. 

We offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements and believe we operate at our best when collaborating 3 days a week in person (minimum).

The EBRD environment provides you with:

• Varied, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in;
• A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity;
• An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital  transformation at the heart of what we do.

Diversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does.  A diverse workforce with the right knowledge and skills enables connection with our clients, brings pioneering ideas, energy and innovation. The EBRD staff is characterised by its rich diversity of nationalities, cultures and opinions and we aim to sustain and build on this strength. As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, sexual orientation or disabilities.  As an inclusive employer, we promote flexible working and expecting our employee to attend the office 50% of their working time.

Please note, that due to the high volume of applications received, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted (for further consideration).