Enterprise Resilience and Failover Architect

DiceTek UAE; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

DiceTek UAE is seeking an Enterprise Resilience and Failover Architect based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The role focuses on designing and validating resilient architectures, failover strategies and recovery objectives to support critical banking services on-site.

The ideal candidate has a minimum of 10 years in architecture, with at least 5 years in technology resilience, high availability and disaster recovery, and a track record of guiding cross-functional teams through complex

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in infrastructure, solution or enterprise architecture.
• At least 5 years of experience in technology resilience, high availability and disaster recovery architecture.
• Strong experience assessing enterprise resilience and failover architectures.

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture support for resilience and failover capabilities.
• Assess resilience across applications, platforms and infrastructure.
• Evaluate failover arrangements and recovery dependencies.
• Identify bottlenecks and single points of failure.
• Document recovery constraints and risks.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams on resilience design.
• Develop target-state resilience architecture options and recommendations.

Skills

Enterprise architecture experience

Resilience design

Failover design

Tools

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow CMDB

Microsoft 365

Job description

Enterprise Resilience and Failover Architect Job Snapshot — Role: Enterprise Resilience and Failover Architect — Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — Industry: Banking — Function: Software-System Architecture — Experience: Minimum 10 years, including at least 5 years in technology resilience, high availability and disaster recovery architecture — Job Type: Full Time — Work Arrangement: On-site

Job Details

Country: United Arab Emirates

City: Abu Dhabi

Industry: Banking

Function: Software-System Architecture

Salary: Not disclosed

Gender: No Preference

Candidate Nationality: Not specified

Job Type: Full Time

Work Arrangement: On-site

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical architecture support for the definition and evolution of enterprise resilience and failover capabilities.
• Assess the current resilience architecture across relevant applications, platforms and infrastructure.
• Evaluate existing failover arrangements and associated recovery dependencies.
• Identify architectural bottlenecks and single points of failure.
• Analyse recovery constraints affecting critical technology services.
• Assess cross-site dependencies and associated recovery risks.
• Document architectural weaknesses and prioritised remediation considerations.

Target-State Resilience and Failover Design

• Develop target-state resilience and failover architecture options.
• Define architecture approaches aligned with rapid recovery objectives.
• Evaluate active-active and active-passive architecture patterns.
• Assess multi-site and multi-region resilience options.
• Consider end-to-end dependencies across applications, infrastructure, networks, data and integrations.
• Incorporate relevant cloud and hybrid infrastructure considerations.
• Develop architecture recommendations addressing identified resilience gaps.

Recovery Objectives and Failure Analysis

• Define architecture considerations aligned with Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).
• Assess architecture requirements associated with Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
• Analyse potential recovery failure modes.
• Evaluate technical dependencies that may constrain recovery performance.
• Identify risks associated with cross-site recovery arrangements.
• Assess whether proposed architecture options support defined recovery expectations.
• Document recovery-related assumptions, constraints and technical risks.

Technical Options and Trade-Off Assessment

• Evaluate alternative resilience and failover architecture approaches.
• Compare options based on service availability and recoverability.
• Assess operational support and maintainability considerations.
• Evaluate architecture complexity and implementation dependencies.
• Consider cost implications and implementation risks.
• Document technical advantages, limitations and trade-offs.
• Prepare recommendations to support informed architecture decisions.

Cross-Functional Architecture Coordination

• Work with Enterprise Architecture teams to validate architecture principles and requirements.
• Collaborate with Technology Platforms teams on infrastructure and platform dependencies.
• Engage Disaster Recovery and Operations teams to understand recovery capabilities and constraints.
• Coordinate with Cyber Security stakeholders on relevant architecture considerations.
• Work with application owners to validate service dependencies and recovery assumptions.
• Facilitate technical discussions to resolve architecture questions.
• Maintain alignment between proposed resilience architecture and relevant stakeholder requirements.

Architecture Governance and Documentation

• Produce current-state resilience and failover architecture assessments.
• Develop target-state architecture diagrams and supporting documentation.
• Maintain records of identified architecture risks and dependency gaps.
• Prepare technical options papers with recommendations and implementation considerations.
• Document architecture decisions and supporting rationale.
• Develop architecture roadmaps and transition considerations.
• Prepare governance-ready architecture packs for review and approval.
• Support implementation planning through clear technical architecture guidance.

Architecture and Operational Responsibility

• Provide architecture assessments, technical designs and recommendations.
• Support validation of architectural assumptions and recovery requirements.
• Identify implementation dependencies for accountable delivery teams.
• Coordinate architectural considerations with platform and operations stakeholders.
• Maintain separation between architecture governance responsibilities and operational execution.
• Leave operational implementation and disaster recovery test execution with the accountable platform and operations teams.

Required Experience

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in infrastructure, solution or enterprise architecture.
• At least 5 years of experience in technology resilience, high availability and disaster recovery architecture.
• Strong experience assessing enterprise resilience and failover architectures.
• Practical knowledge of active-active, active-passive, multi-site and multi-region architecture patterns.
• Experience evaluating application, infrastructure, network, data, integration and cloud dependencies.
• Ability to define RTO/RPO-aligned architecture approaches.
• Experience analysing recovery failure modes and technical resilience constraints.
• Strong technical option assessment and architecture documentation capabilities.
• Experience facilitating architecture discussions with multidisciplinary technology stakeholders.
• Experience within regulated financial services or similarly critical environments is strongly preferred.

Required Technical Skills

Enterprise Architecture

• Enterprise resilience architecture.
• Infrastructure architecture.
• Solution architecture.
• Enterprise architecture governance.
• Target-state architecture development.
• Architecture transition planning.
• Technical options assessment.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery

• High availability architecture.
• Disaster recovery architecture.
• Failover design.
• Active-active architecture.
• Active-passive architecture.
• Multi-site resilience.
• Multi-region resilience.
• Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).
• Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
• Recovery failure-mode analysis.

Technology Dependency Assessment

• Application dependencies.
• Infrastructure dependencies.
• Network architecture.
• Data and database dependencies.
• Enterprise integration dependencies.
• Cloud platform dependencies.
• Cross-site recovery constraints.
• Single points of failure.

Architecture Governance

• Current-state architecture assessment.
• Target-state architecture design.
• Technical trade-off analysis.
• Architecture risk documentation.
• Architecture decision records.
• Governance review preparation.
• Implementation dependency assessment.

Preferred Technology Environment

Hybrid Infrastructure and Cloud

• Hybrid enterprise infrastructure.
• Cloud platforms.
• Multi-site and multi-region environments.
• Virtualisation technologies.
• Container platforms.

Data and Infrastructure Services

• Enterprise databases.
• Storage platforms.
• Data replication technologies.
• Network infrastructure.
• Load-balancing technologies.

Enterprise Technology Capabilities

• Enterprise integration services.
• Application and infrastructure observability.
• Technology dependency management.
• Resilience monitoring capabilities.

Tools and Platforms

• ServiceNow Configuration Management Database (CMDB).
• Jira.
• Confluence.
• Microsoft 365.

Preferred Professional Certifications

Relevant architecture and resilience certifications are preferred, including:

• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) certification.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Relevant equivalent cloud architecture certification.
• Business continuity or resilience certification, such as the Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute (CBCI), is advantageous.

Key Deliverables

Current-State Architecture Assessment

• Comprehensive assessment of existing resilience and failover architecture.
• Documented application, platform and infrastructure dependencies.
• Identification of architectural bottlenecks and single points of failure.
• Assessment of recovery constraints and cross-site dependency risks.

Architecture Risk and Remediation Analysis

• Documented architecture risks and resilience gaps.
• Analysis of recovery failure modes.
• Prioritised remediation considerations.
• Supporting technical findings and dependency assessments.

Target-State Resilience Architecture

• Target-state resilience and failover architecture.
• Architecture coverage across applications, platforms, infrastructure and critical technology dependencies.
• RTO/RPO-aligned architecture considerations.
• Defined high availability and failover design options.

Technical Options and Recommendations

• Technical options paper covering alternative architecture approaches.
• Evaluation of availability, recoverability, operability, complexity, cost and implementation risk.
• Recommended architecture approach.
• Documented implementation dependencies and technical constraints.

Architecture Roadmap and Governance

• Architecture roadmap for the agreed target state.
• Transition considerations supporting implementation planning.
• Governance-ready architecture documentation.
• Recorded architecture decisions and recommendations.
• Supporting materials for target-state architecture approval.

Professional Competencies

• Strong enterprise architecture and technical design capabilities.
• Analytical approach to resilience risks and recovery constraints.
• Ability to evaluate complex technology dependencies.
• Sound judgment when comparing architectural alternatives.
• Strong technical documentation and presentation skills.
• Effective facilitation of cross-functional architecture discussions.
• Ability to communicate architecture risks and trade-offs clearly.
• Understanding of operational responsibilities and architecture governance boundaries.
• Ability to develop practical recommendations supporting implementation planning.

Role Expectations

The Enterprise Resilience and Failover Architect will provide senior technical architecture expertise to strengthen enterprise availability, recoverability and disaster recovery design. The successful candidate will assess existing resilience arrangements, identify critical dependencies and architectural weaknesses, and recommend target-state architecture options aligned with recovery objectives.

The role requires balancing technical resilience requirements with operational practicality, implementation complexity, cost and risk. Architecture recommendations must be sufficiently detailed to support governance review, target-state approval and implementation planning.

Candidates must have at least 10 years of relevant architecture experience, including a minimum of 5 years specialising in technology resilience, high availability and disaster recovery architecture.