Principal Cloud Architect — IT Operations

This role is for a Principal Cloud Architect in IT Operations at SimCorp, focusing on shaping, designing, governing, and evolving cloud platforms, primarily Azure. The architect will ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with business and regulatory needs. Key responsibilities include defining Azure cloud architectures using CAF and Azure Well-Architected Framework, providing architectural guidance across various cloud domains, translating requirements into cloud-native designs, establishing architectural standards for new Managed Landing Zones, and supporting cloud modernization initiatives. The role requires strong Azure experience, collaboration skills, and an understanding of governance, security, and cost management.

Must Have

• Act as a key architectural authority in Group IT
• Shape cloud platform design, governance, and evolution
• Ensure secure, scalable solutions aligned with business and regulatory needs
• Provide architectural guidance across landing zones, networking, identity, security, and governance
• Translate business and technical requirements into cloud-native architectural designs
• Establish and maintain architectural standards for new Managed Landing Zone concept
• Support cloud modernization initiatives, including migrations and optimizations
• Balance architectural direction with practical execution
• Collaborate with diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders

Perks & Benefits

• Attractive salary
• Bonus scheme
• Pension
• Good work-life balance
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid work model (two days in office, other days remote)
• Opportunities for professional development
• Individual approach to professional development

WHAT MAKES US, US

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp! At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered. If you like what we’re saying, keep reading!

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

In this role, you will act as a key architectural authority in Group IT at SimCorp. You will help shape how cloud platforms are designed, governed, and evolved, ensuring that teams can build solutions that are secure, scalable, and aligned with both business needs and regulatory expectations.

Your responsibilities will include, among others:

• Defining and evolving Azure cloud architectures in line with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and the Azure Well-Architected Framework
• Partnering with engineering, security, and platform teams to provide architectural guidance across landing zones, networking, identity, security, and governance
• Translating business and technical requirements into pragmatic, cloud-native architectural designs
• Establishing and maintaining architectural standards, reference architectures, and design principles for new Managed Landing Zone concept that will be primary task to launch
• Supporting cloud modernization initiatives, including migrations, optimizations, and continuous improvement of existing platforms

WHAT WE VALUE

We value candidates who bring strong experience from working with Microsoft Azure in complex environments and who enjoy collaborating across teams to create robust cloud solutions. You are comfortable balancing architectural direction with practical execution and understand the importance of governance, security, and cost awareness in enterprise cloud platforms.

We are particularly interested in your experience with:

• Designing and operating enterprise-scale solutions in Microsoft Azure
• Applying the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Azure Well-Architected Framework in real-world scenarios
• Working with cloud governance, security, identity, networking, and cost management practices
• Collaborating with diverse stakeholders, both technical and non-technical, in a large organization
• Using modern cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code as part of your architectural approach

BENEFITS

Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a good work-life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model. Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days. Simcorp does offer opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

NEXT STEP

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

For any questions you are welcome to contact Kateryna Kozak, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, at katk@simcorp.com. If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp and you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above, but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.

WHO WE ARE

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds in general. SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients. SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.