Description

A focused course, tailored for you

Building Modern Cloud Platform Engineering for Regional Banking (Multi-Cloud + Resilience + FFIEC + AI Workloads + Cost)

Build the regional banking cloud platform engineering skill in 10 weeks. Multi-cloud + resilience + FFIEC + AI workloads + cost.

Regional banks are modernising cloud platforms: multi-cloud, operational resilience to OCC + Fed expectations, FFIEC examination readiness, AI workload deployment, and cost discipline. Engineers who build the modern banking cloud platform take the senior platform work. Here is the 10-week build.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

Regional banks (KeyBank, PNC, Fifth Third, Regions, Truist, M&T, Citizens, Huntington, US Bank, BMO Harris, First Horizon, Comerica) are modernising cloud platforms. Multi-cloud (AWS + Azure + sometimes Google) for resilience and vendor leverage, operational resilience to OCC + Fed expectations and BoE/EBA where applicable, FFIEC examination readiness, AI workload deployment (regulator-watched), and cost discipline through FinOps practices all need to land at platform engineering.

Engineers who build the modern banking cloud platform take the senior platform work. Engineers who stay on legacy-only patterns watch the work shift to peers.

This course teaches the 10-week build of modern cloud platform engineering for regional banking: multi-cloud architecture, operational resilience, FFIEC readiness, AI workload deployment, cost discipline, observability, and the executive engagement model. Twelve modules with deliverables. Plus a hand-built implementation playbook for your specific bank.

What you walk away with

A documented multi-cloud architecture.
An operational-resilience design.
An FFIEC examination-readiness pack.
An AI workload deployment pattern.
A FinOps cost-discipline framework.
An observability and incident-response design.
An executive engagement model.
A 10-week build plan.

The 12 modules

Module 1. Regional banking cloud landscape 2026

Detailed walkthrough of regional banking cloud modernisation in 2026: AWS + Azure + Google patterns at peer regional banks, OCC Heightened Standards application, Fed SR 17-7 and SR 16-11 third-party risk, FFIEC Outsourcing Booklet, EU DORA where applicable, FedRAMP for federal-facing services, and the strategic-level decisions to set up. What peer regional banks have already shipped.

Module 2. Multi-cloud architecture

Build the multi-cloud architecture: workload-placement framework (which workload goes to which cloud and why), data-replication strategy across clouds, identity-federation across clouds, network-architecture (transit gateway + Express Route + Cloud Interconnect), policy-as-code across clouds, and the cloud-portability decision matrix. Three multi-cloud patterns from peer regional banks.

Module 3. Operational resilience

Build the operational-resilience design: critical-function identification, impact-tolerance setting per function, recovery objective design (RTO + RPO + MTPD), self-attestation framework (OCC + Fed + BoE + ESAs alignment), severe-but-plausible scenario testing (cloud-region failure, cyber attack, AI-system failure, key-vendor failure, climate), and the integration with broader business continuity. The framework that wins regulator examination.

Module 4. FFIEC examination readiness

Build the FFIEC examination-readiness pack: FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool alignment, FFIEC IT Examination Handbook coverage, examination-preparation workflow, examiner-interaction pattern, MRA/MRIA-avoidance framework, and the integration with the FFIEC overall regulator dialogue.

Module 5. AI workload deployment

Build the AI workload deployment pattern: AI-workload security baseline (model isolation, data isolation, output-validation), Fed SR 11-7 MRM integration, OCC AI guidance alignment, CFPB UDAAP overlay for consumer-facing AI, fair-lending overlay for credit AI, BSA AML integration for AI-driven KYC enhancements, and the AI-vendor due-diligence integration. The pattern that wins regulator signoff.

Module 6. FinOps and cost discipline

Build the FinOps and cost-discipline framework: per-team cloud-cost allocation, showback and chargeback model, commitment optimisation (Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Committed Use Discounts), workload right-sizing automation, idle-resource detection and reclamation, AI-workload cost controls, and the executive-reporting cadence. The framework that bends the cloud spend curve.

Module 7. Identity and access management

Build the IAM: cross-cloud SSO, just-in-time access for engineers, privileged-access management (CyberArk, BeyondTrust, in-house), service-account modernisation (workload identity, OIDC federation, short-lived credentials), MFA enforcement (phishing-resistant FIDO2 for engineers), and the integration with broader IAM.

Module 8. Observability and incident response

Build the observability and incident response: cross-cloud observability stack (Datadog, New Relic, Splunk Observability, in-house), SLI/SLO framework, error-budget policy, on-call structure, incident-severity matrix aligned to regulator notification, post-incident review aligned to FFIEC + Fed + OCC expectations, and the integration with broader operations.

Module 9. Security and zero trust

Build the security and zero-trust architecture: zero-trust network architecture (BeyondCorp pattern, ZScaler, Netskope), workload identity, secrets management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault), data-perimeter enforcement, EDR/XDR integration, and the integration with broader cyber. The architecture that satisfies OCC + Fed + FFIEC + customer-CISO due diligence.

Module 10. Data and AI platform

Build the data and AI platform: lakehouse architecture (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, hybrid), data-governance integration (Unity Catalog, Polaris, Atlan, Datahub), data-quality framework, lineage capture, MLOps platform (MLflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI, in-house), and the integration with broader data strategy.

Module 11. Executive engagement

Build the executive engagement: CIO partnership, CTO partnership, CISO partnership, CRO partnership (third-party risk + operational resilience), CFO partnership (FinOps), and the board technology-committee reporting cadence. The engagement that drives platform-team funding and authority.

Module 12. Your 10-week build plan

Week-by-week plan with weekly deliverables. Weeks 1-2: regional banking cloud landscape + multi-cloud architecture. Weeks 3-4: operational resilience + FFIEC examination readiness. Weeks 5-6: AI workload deployment + FinOps. Weeks 7-8: IAM + observability + incident response. Weeks 9-10: security/zero trust + data/AI platform + executive engagement. Deliverable: modern banking cloud platform ready for the next regulator examination.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

Module 1 covers the landscape.

Modules 2 to 5 produce multi-cloud architecture, operational resilience, FFIEC pack, and AI workload pattern.

Modules 6 to 7 cover FinOps and IAM.

Modules 8 to 9 cover observability and security/zero trust.

Module 10 covers the data/AI platform.

Module 11 covers executive engagement.

Module 12 covers the 10-week build plan.

What you get with this course

The 12-module course delivered as text plus downloadable templates.
Templates and code examples for multi-cloud architecture, operational resilience, FFIEC pack, AI workload pattern, FinOps framework, IAM, observability, security/zero trust, data/AI platform.
A hand-built implementation playbook generated for your specific bank.
Three worked examples of modern banking cloud platforms at peer regional banks.
Scripted talking points for the engineering leadership review.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Day 1: Multi-cloud architecture scaffold drafted.

Week 4: Operational resilience + FFIEC readiness pack delivered.

Week 8: AI workload pattern + FinOps framework operational.

Week 10: Modern platform in operation.

Before and after

Before

Your bank runs primarily on a single cloud or legacy patterns. Multi-cloud is talked about but not designed. Operational resilience is a paper construct. FFIEC examination preparation is reactive. AI workloads stall on MRM and CFPB concerns.

After

A modern cloud platform is in operation. Multi-cloud architecture, operational resilience design, FFIEC examination-readiness pack, AI workload deployment pattern, FinOps framework, IAM, observability, security/zero trust, data/AI platform are all designed. The next regulator examination is ready.

What happens if you do not address this

Regional banks without a modern cloud platform lose talent and capability to peers. FFIEC + Fed + OCC examinations increasingly focus on cloud and AI patterns.

Who it is for

For platform engineers, cloud engineers, SRE, security engineers, and engineering managers at regional banks and bank-adjacent technology providers.

Who this is NOT for. Pure research roles. Engineers at firms with no banking business. Pure technology firms.

How it arrives

Text-based course via LMS, plus downloadable code examples and templates and the hand-built implementation playbook.

Time investment. Roughly 18 hours of reading and 100 to 200 hours building the first platform increments.

Why $199 is the right number

External banking cloud consultants charge $300K-$1.5M for platform builds. Big4 banking advisory engagements run $500K-$3M. Specialist banking IT firms (the firm banking practice, the firm financial services, the firm risk advisory) charge $200K-$1M. $199 buys the focused playbook plus the implementation document for your specific bank.

FAQ

Will this replace hiring a banking cloud specialist?

Partially. It teaches the platform pattern. You may still want specialist input for FedRAMP and advanced MRM.

What if my bank is single-cloud (not multi-cloud)?

Module 2 covers the path from single-cloud to multi-cloud.

Does this cover EU DORA alignment for European subsidiaries?

Module 3 covers DORA-anchored patterns.

What about consumer-credit AI fair-lending requirements?

Module 5 covers fair-lending overlay.

What is in the implementation playbook for me specifically?

Multi-cloud architecture tailored to your bank's specific workloads; operational resilience matched to your existing business continuity; a 10-week build plan.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.