Head of Cloud & Enterprise Infrastructure - Morristown, NJ

Job Overview

At Valley Bank, we believe in people’s growth potential. We invest in it. We protect it. We focus it. For nearly 100 years, we have been the bank that clients from every industry turn to for our expertise, strategies, and advice—building the kind of trust that can fuel every goal.

We are the leading relationship bank built for growth— with over $60 billion in assets, 3,800 experts, and more than 200 consumer branches and commercial banking offices across communities throughout the United States.

At Valley, we are driven by an ambition that goes deeper than just having a job. When you work for us, we make it our goal to help you focus on what drives you—turning your passions and strengths into assets that propel your ambitions and build the professional legacy you want.

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The Head of Cloud and Enterprise Infrastructure provides leadership and oversees the design, implementation, and management of Valley National Bank’s enterprise IT Infrastructure and Cloud platforms. The role involves leading multiple IT teams, driving innovation through Cloud solutions, and ensuring security, resilience, and scalability of systems. The ideal candidate should be experienced in Cloud Platform & Infrastructure engineering strategy, architecture, design, technology selection/evaluation, and the deployment of innovative solutions focused on delivering business outcomes.

• Build best‑in‑class technical platform and infrastructure solutions on a hybrid cloud to address scalability, reliability, security, and performance requirements.
• Work across geographically dispersed and integrated project teams to develop the strategy, architecture, roadmaps, design, and implementation of cloud platform and infrastructure solutions.
• Provide leadership, vision, and oversight across the engineering pillars to deliver holistic end‑to‑end solutions.
• Create a collaborative culture through robust communication, governance, and partnership with internal and external entities.
• Implement security controls and ensure security and regulatory compliance in a modern, hybrid multi‑cloud environment.
• Design and implement an enterprise management program focused on best‑in‑class solutions across technology platforms for impact analysis, design, and resiliency reviews.
  • Design and implement hybrid multi‑cloud architecture.
  • Develop and manage a Cloud Center of Excellence.
  • Define architecture patterns for private and public cloud.
    • Preference for cloud‑native and serverless architecture.
    • Container‑based architectures.
    • Hybrid environment to include general compute, network, and storage.
    • Highly available designs to support platforms with varying business RTO/RPO requirements.
    • Multi‑service, inter‑network, hybrid connectivity optimized for multiple line‑of‑business applications and data integration.
  • Deploy infrastructure‑as‑code automation capabilities (Terraform, ARM, Cloud Formation, etc.).
  • Develop a Dev Sec Ops  practice and onboarding program to accelerate application deployment.
  • Environment strategy—management, deployment, and configuration management.
  • Operational security and excellence programs (e.g., logging and monitoring strategies).
  • Infrastructure training—cloud training program, best practices, infrastructure‑as‑code, etc.
• Lead and coordinate the work of an integrated project team comprising developers, subject matter experts, database administrators, system administrators, and system architects to implement and maintain enterprise‑level applications.
• Accountable for the development, monitoring, and compliance to the relevant budget.
• Drive optimal forecasting and capacity planning across service areas for high availability, lifecycle management, and disaster recovery planning (DRP).
• Ensure quality and performance of services provided from managed service providers, and sponsor engineering topics, related projects, and continuous transformation efforts.
  • Provide direction to the team to ensure managed service partners have the necessary process, tools, and support.
  • Work with operations teams, managed service partners, and vendor management to ensure equipment and services adhere to overarching strategy,…