Senior Enterprise Architect (Resilience and Risk)
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The resilience of our business and the technology that underpins it is a top priority – failure of critical service is not an option! Would you like to protect our customers and help Britain prosper, whilst working with the latest technology? The Group is entering an exciting phase of strengthening our resilience strategy, adopting modern technology shifts to strengthen vital services, growing towards achieving our north star of ensuring our customer services remain in Continuous Operation.
As a Technology Resilience Enterprise Architect, you will join an expert team empowered to explore the art of the possible. Working within Technology Resilience & Risk Architecture, as part of our Chief Technology Office, you will:
* Develop and embed comprehensive proactive resilience and recovery response capabilities, focusing across the spectrum of technology resilience, including preventative software-level resilience, automated failover & rapid service rebuild including restoration of data from backups.
* Build compelling architecture strategies with comprehensive inputs from Business, Engineering, Operations, Industry and Vendors, proactively guiding the Group.
* Identify, evaluate & recommend emerging technologies across the industry that could enhance our enterprise resilience, influencing the direction of our investment portfolios.
* Build positive relationships with engineering teams to support the design and delivery of capability.
* Guide senior business collaborators on the significance of resilience, while highlighting various levels of risk.
* Assist in the establishment of required operating models to achieve resilience outcomes, including proof of resilience levels across critical services.
Job Details
Job Title: Technology Resilience Enterprise Architect
Location: Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds, or Halifax
Hours: Full-Time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds or Halifax office site.
What You'll Need
* Strong resilience architecture background.
* Proficiency in modern cloud-based architectures and achieving resilience through composable architecture techniques such as microservices, APIs, event streams and CI/CD pipelines.
* Experience of modern AI‑Ops and observability capabilities.
* Knowledge of traditional datacentre hosted architectures, including complex enterprise infrastructure such as storage, backup and middleware technologies.
* Expertise in disaster recovery strategies and their assurance.
* Awareness of emerging technologies and how they could be maximised for resilience.
* Knowledge of enterprise service management and operational tooling/methodologies such as SRE.
* Proven experience engaging across organisations at a senior level.
* Technical experience within financial services organisations.
* Good understanding of Operational Resilience and Critical Third-Party regulation.
* Experience in data management, specifically ensuring data integrity and availability.
About Working for Us
Our focus is to ensure we are inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We welcome applications from under‑represented groups. We are disability confident and will provide reasonable adjustments where required.
We offer a wide-ranging benefits package including:
* Generous pension contribution of up to 15%
* Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
* Share schemes including free shares
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
* 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
* Range of well‑being initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Seniority Level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type
Full‑time
Job Function
Information Technology
Industry
Banking
Additional Information
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