.Head of Public & Private Cloud - SCIBLocation: Madrid or Málaga, SpainWHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THIS OPPORTUNITYSantander Corporate & Investment Banking (Santander CIB) is Santander's global division that supports some of the world's most complex and sophisticated corporate and institutional clients, offering customized services and value-added wholesale products to best meet their needs. We embrace a strong risk culture, and all our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management. Santander is proud of being an organization where there are equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, culture, and disability. Our mission is to contribute to help more people and businesses prosper.WHAT YOU WILL BE DOINGStrategic Planning and Execution: Develop and execute the strategic vision for the SCIB internal cloud platform, aligning it with the organization's goals. Oversee the prioritization of the function's transformation backlog and secure funding from key stakeholders. Oversee the configuration of this new unit from the reorganization of existing teams.Leadership and Team Management: Lead and manage cloud dedicated teams, ensuring they deliver high-quality platform services as per success criteria. Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture, promoting continuous improvement and professional growth.Supervision of Cloud Architecture, Engineering, Operations & Service Delivery: Oversee the user journey of cloud solutions, ensuring they meet business requirements. Oversee the development of the Cloud platform services dedicated architectural patterns, ensuring that the patterns are selected and developed in accordance with the product teams' feedback. Supervise the execution of designs and enablement of pipelines (both infrastructure & code), ensuring that infrastructures are prepared for productive environments, including resiliency and security requirements.Monitoring and Evolution: Implement robust monitoring and reporting systems to track the performance and health of cloud platforms. In collaboration with CTO, drive the evolution of cloud services, incorporating new technologies and best practices to enhance platform capabilities.Compliance and Security: Ensure all cloud solutions comply with internal policies, industry standards, and regulatory requirements. Implement and maintain strong security practices to protect data and infrastructure.Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary point of contact for cloud journeys for product teams and business stakeholders, ensuring their requirements and expectations are met. Set up continuous feedback mechanisms with product teams and ensure adequate measurement of success criteria KPIs.Process and Guideline Development: In collaboration with CTO, CDO, and CISO, establish and maintain guidelines and best practices for cloud solution design, architecture, and operations