Enterprise Architect - Tech Resilience

Years of Experience Minimum 10 years in infrastructure, solution or enterprise architecture, including at least 5 years in technology resilience, high availability and disaster recovery architecture.

Key Responsibilities

Provide technical architecture support for the definition and evolution of the enterprise resilience and failover architecture. Assess the current resilience and failover architecture across relevant applications, platforms, infrastructure and dependencies.

Identify architectural bottlenecks, single points of failure, recovery constraints and cross-site dependency risks. Develop target-state resilience and failover architecture options aligned with rapid recovery objectives.

Evaluate technical options and trade-offs covering availability, recoverability, operability, complexity, cost and implementation risk. Work with Enterprise Architecture, Technology Platforms, DR/Operations, Cyber Security and application owners to validate architecture assumptions and requirements.

Produce architecture artefacts and recommendations for governance review; operational implementation and DR test execution remain with the accountable platform and operations teams.

Required Skills

Strong architecture experience in enterprise resilience, disaster recovery, high availability and failover design. Knowledge of active-active, active-passive, multi-site and multi-region architecture patterns. Ability to assess end-to-end application, infrastructure, network, data, integration and cloud dependencies.

Experience defining RTO/RPO-aligned architecture and analysing recovery failure modes. Strong stakeholder facilitation, technical option assessment and architecture documentation skills. Experience in regulated financial services or similarly critical environments is strongly preferred.

Key Deliverables Current-state resilience and failover architecture assessment. Documented architecture risks, bottlenecks, dependency gaps and prioritized remediation considerations. Target-state resilience and failover architecture covering applications, platforms, infrastructure and critical technology dependencies.

Technical options paper with trade-offs, recommendation and implementation dependencies. Architecture roadmap and transition considerations for the agreed target state. Governance-ready architecture pack, architecture decisions and recommendations supporting target-state approval and implementation planning.

Certifications & Technical Requirements Certifications Preferred: TOGAF certification and relevant cloud architecture certification such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert. Business continuity or resilience certification such as CBCI is advantageous.

Preferred Tech Stack Hybrid infrastructure; cloud platforms; virtualization; container platforms; databases; storage and replication; network and load-balancing technologies; enterprise integration and observability capabilities. Tools / Platforms ServiceNow CMDB; Jira; Confluence; Microsoft 365.