Job Title: Lead Enterprise Architect
Location: Sheffield (3 x days per week on site)
Salary/Rate: Up to £500 per day
Start Date: April 2026
Job Type: 8 month contract (Inside IR35)
Introduction:
The ideal candidate is passionate about technology resilience, with knowledge of how the ways that a service is designed, built, and run contribute to overall resilience. They will work on the big global resilience initiatives within our tier 1 banking client and play a key role in uplifting the quality and availability of service for our customers.
Job Responsibilities/Objectives
* Resilience Deep Dive process and management implementation into ServiceNow Continual Improvement Management (CIM).
* Resilience Improvements process and management implementation into ServiceNow Continual Improvement Management (CIM).
* Resilience Vulnerability data investigations.
* Design of the migration from home grown Technology Vulnerability management to ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management (IRM).
* Strategic initiatives on Double Failure Resilience and Mass DR scenarios.
* Recovery Time Objective redefinition and embedding within the organisation.
* LI/SLO/Error Budgets and Availability Management approach and strategy for the organisation.
* Contribute to the Technology Resilience strategy and sub-strategies, considering all aspects of resilience: application, infrastructure, security, data, observability, operations and culture.
* Collaborate with Technology teams on building best practice resilience design patterns and solutions, for re-use.
* Build strong feedback loops from production incident data to the best practice for designing, engineering and running Technology services.
* Help to grow resilience skills within Technology teams.
* Contribute to architecture and designs for central resilience services and tooling to enable resilience activity visibility.
* Lead the thinking on approaches to improve resilience and how resilience gaps should be catered for within the organisation.
Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:
* Senior engineer / architect in some or all of these technology domains: Application, Infrastructure / Cloud, Security, Data.
* Technology resilience specialist.
Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:
* Application architecture
* Infrastructure / Cloud architecture
* Microservices architecture
* DevOps
* Container architecture
* Infrastructure as Code and Automation
* CI/CD pipeline and Automated Testing
* SRE / Production Support
* Implementation of SLOs, SLIs and Error Budgets
* Observability (Logging, Monitoring, Telemetry, Metrics)
* Chaos Engineering
* FMEA / Scenario testing
* Strategy author
* Banking experience
* Global organisation experience
* Data analysis / AI on large data sets, drawing conclusions and insights.
* IT Service Management