Senior Enterprise Architect (Resilience and Risk)

JOB TITLE:  Technology Resilience Enterprise Architect

SALARY: £90,000 - £106,400

LOCATION: Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds or Halifax

HOURS:  Full-Time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds or Halifax office site

About this opportunity: 

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 ensuing our customer services remain in Continuous Operation.

As a Technology Resilience Enterprise Architect, you'll join an expert team who have been empowered to explore the art of the possible. Working within Technology Resilience & Risk Architecture, as part of our Chief Technology Office, you'll…

• Develop and embed comprehensive proactive resilience and recovery response capabilities. With focus 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. Pro-actively guiding the Group.

• Identify, evaluate & recommend emerging technologies across 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 how we prove levels of resilience across critical services.

About us

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll need

If you have a strong resilience architecture background, we want to hear from you.

• Proficiency in modern Cloud based architectures, and achieving resilience through composable architecture techniques such as microservices, API’s, 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 including their assurance.

• Awareness of emerging technologies and how they could be maximised for resilience

• Knowledge of enterprise service management and operational tooling / methodologies i.e SRE.

• Proven experience engaging across organisations at a senior level.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• 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're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An 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

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey