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It brings together architecture, engineering, security, operations and migration stakeholders to enable workloads to move to and operate effectively on Azure in line with Euroclear’s business, risk and regulatory requirements.\nAs Principal Cloud Architect, you will act as a senior architecture leader for cloud adoption. You will set architecture direction across a broad, cross-organisational scope; help mature the Cloud Solution Design Authority into an effective and sustainable decision-making body; steer cloud foundation priorities; govern architecture artefacts and reference implementations; and provide pragmatic guidance to workload teams.\nThe role combines strategic architecture leadership, hands-on delivery support and cross-functional decision-making. A key outcome is to expand Euroclear’s cloud presence responsibly by turning cloud strategy and principles into actionable standards, deployable patterns and sound workload decisions.\nKey Responsibilities\nCloud Solution Design Authority\nMature the Cloud Solution Design Authority by clarifying its mandate, decision rights, intake process, governance, cadence, quality criteria and follow-up of architecture decisions.\n\nEstablish a sustainable operating rhythm that enables timely, traceable and risk-informed decisions.\n\nFacilitate complex architecture discussions, document outcomes and ensure that decisions, conditions and actions have clear owners.\n\nImprove the quality and consistency of architecture submissions by providing guidance, templates and early engagement.\n\nCloud Foundations and Roadmap\nRefine, prioritise and maintain the cloud foundation roadmap across identity, connectivity, security, governance, management, operations and automation.\n\nBalance migration demand, risk reduction, platform scalability, technical debt and delivery capacity when setting priorities.\n\nIdentify cross-platform dependencies and sequence foundation capabilities so that workload teams can adopt cloud safely and efficiently.\n\nAdvise programme and technology leadership on architecture choices, investment priorities and delivery trade-offs.\n\nArchitecture Direction and Artefacts\nDevelop, maintain and govern cloud architecture principles, standards, target-state designs, roadmaps and architecture decision records.\n\nTranslate enterprise strategy, regulatory expectations and delivery needs into clear architecture direction.\n\nEnsure cloud architecture remains aligned with enterprise, security, data, resilience and technology standards.\n\nMaintain traceability between strategic objectives, architecture decisions, implementation guidance and delivery outcomes.\n\nReference Implementations and Reusable Patterns\nPrioritise reusable cloud patterns and reference implementations based on workload demand, risk reduction and strategic value.\n\nGuide their delivery so that approved patterns are deployable, testable, automated and consumable by workload teams.\n\nTranslate architecture into infrastructure-as-code accelerators, policy-driven guardrails and reusable platform services.\n\nPromote standardisation and governed self-service while limiting manual fulfilment and one-off solutions to justified exceptions.\n\nWorkload Assessment and Migration Guidance\nSupport migration teams and workload owners in assessing application architecture, dependencies, data, security, resilience, operability, compatibility and migration readiness.\n\nRecommend appropriate migration or modernisation strategies based on business value, criticality, compliance, lifecycle impact and technical feasibility.\n\nHelp teams select the most appropriate service model, considering SaaS, PaaS, containers and IaaS without assuming that one model is universally optimal.\n\nIdentify architecture gaps and convert assessment findings into actionable remediation, sequencing and decision points.\n\nCloud Footprint and Regional Architecture\nShape the expansion of Euroclear’s cloud footprint, including new-region adoption, regional operating models and multi-region approaches.\n\nAssess implications for foundations, connectivity, identity, security, data residency, resilience, operations, support and cost.\n\nDefine architecture guidance for workload placement and regional deployment.\n\nEnsure exceptions to approved regions or patterns have documented rationale, risk assessment, ownership and approval.\n\nSustainability and Net-Zero Assessment\nAssess the cloud implications of sustainability and Net-Zero-related decisions.\n\nEvaluate architecture trade-offs involving region selection, service choices, resource efficiency, carbon considerations, cost, resilience and performance.\n\nPromote efficient use of managed and cloud-native services where they provide measurable value and acceptable risk.\n\nEnsure sustainability considerations are incorporated into architecture decisions and roadmaps without compromising security, regulation or service quality.\n\nArchitecture Assurance\nReview solution designs and assess alignment with approved principles, standards, target architectures and reference patterns.\n\nIdentify material risks, gaps and deviations, and provide clear recommendations to delivery teams and decision-makers.\n\nEnsure exceptions have an explicit rationale, accountable owner, remediation action and expiry or review date.\n\nTrack recurring deviations and use them to improve standards, patterns, platform capabilities and governance.\n\nStakeholder Alignment and Leadership\nWork closely with Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Engineering, CISO, Production, Business Resilience, migration teams, programme leadership and workload owners.\n\nResolve architectural dependencies and accelerate decisions across organisational boundaries.\n\nInfluence senior business and IT stakeholders by making complex trade-offs clear and decision-ready.\n\nChallenge constructively and drive outcomes without relying solely on formal authority.\n\nArchitecture Community and Knowledge Transfer\nCoach and mentor architects and engineers working on cloud initiatives.\n\nStrengthen the architecture community through knowledge sharing, reviews, reusable guidance and lessons learned.\n\nEnsure cloud standards, patterns and decision processes are understood and applied consistently.\n\nPromote pragmatic, collaborative and outcome-focused ways of working across architecture and delivery teams.\n\nCandidate Profile\nRequired Experience\nExtensive experience as a cloud architect, enterprise architect or principal solution architect in large-scale technology transformation.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading architecture across complex, cross-organisational business and IT scopes.\n\nStrong practical knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including landing zones, identity and access management, network topology, security, governance, policy, management, observability and platform automation.\n\nExperience establishing or maturing design authorities, architecture review boards, decision processes and architecture assurance practices.\n\nProven ability to develop and govern principles, standards, target architectures, roadmaps, architecture decision records, reference patterns and implementation guidance.\n\nExperience translating architecture into infrastructure-as-code accelerators, reference implementations, guardrails and consumable platform services.\n\nPractical experience assessing workload architecture, dependencies, data, security, resilience, operability and compatibility, and recommending migration or modernisation strategies.\n\nExperience designing or governing multi-region cloud environments, including region selection, connectivity, data residency, resilience, operational support and cost trade-offs.\n\nStrong understanding of security by design, policy-driven governance, shared responsibility and risk-proportionate control models.\n\nExperience in financial services, financial market infrastructure or another regulated environment.\n\nGood understanding of ICT risk, operational resilience, data protection and third-party requirements relevant to regulated financial institutions.\n\nProven ability to align senior stakeholders, facilitate complex decisions and communicate architecture recommendations clearly.\n\nAbility to balance strategic direction, portfolio prioritisation and detailed technical implementation challenges.\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex architecture topics clear, actionable and decision-ready.\n\nExperience working in Agile, DevOps or hybrid delivery environments.\n\nProficiency in English.\n\nPreferred Experience\nExperience applying Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and enterprise-scale Azure 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Candidates are not expected to hold all of them, but should demonstrate relevant depth across Azure architecture, security and enterprise architecture:\nAzure Architecture: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.\n\nAzure Security: Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate or equivalent.\n\nDevOps and Automation: Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, Terraform certification or equivalent infrastructure-as-code accreditation.\n\nEnterprise Architecture: TOGAF, Open Agile Architecture or an equivalent architecture certification.\n\nSecurity and Risk: CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CRISC or equivalent.\n\nFinOps and Sustainability: FinOps Certified Practitioner or relevant cloud sustainability training.\n\nPlease note that this is a permanent position, and we do not offer freelance/contract arrangement for the role.\nIn order to cultivate relationships and promote team spirit, we require your presence in the office for a minimum of 8 days per month.","description_format":"text","description_chars":10462,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"Dutch","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":true},{"language":"French","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":true},{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Stock Exchanges & Market Infrastructure","Custody & Fund Administration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T15:16:03Z"}],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":52,"reasons":["conf:9","stale_co","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/euroclear-principal-cloud-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/euroclear-principal-cloud-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T00:09:16Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":81,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4919,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}