Data Resilience Technology Specialist

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in the UK is seeking an experienced professional to join the Data Resilience team. The role involves designing and maintaining infrastructure resilience solutions, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and leading disaster recovery initiatives. Candidates should have expertise in infrastructure solutions, disaster recovery, and strong stakeholder engagement. This position offers a range of benefits including a generous pension and ample holiday.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

30 days' holiday

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Hands-on delivery experience of infrastructure solutions for resilience and recovery.
• Proven disaster recovery experience: automated restore, rebuild, and cutover.
• Strong ITIL knowledge with major incident and change leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure resilience solutions.
• Define and deliver hosting and recovery strategies for critical platforms.
• Lead disaster recovery drills with various teams.

Skills

Infrastructure solutions delivery

Cloud expertise

Disaster recovery experience

ITIL knowledge

ServiceNow experience

Automation skills (PowerShell, Python, Terraform)

Stakeholder engagement

Regulatory awareness

Job description

Overview

The Data Resilience team is a new chapter within the Chief Data and Analytics Office (CDAO). It has the responsibility to define and embed new Strategies, Operating Models and Control Frameworks to protect the Bank's critical data services that our customers, colleagues and the market rely upon. The aim of the Data Resilience Team is to protect our customers, colleagues and markets by ensuring we comply with the spirit of the regulatory requirements for operational resilience established by the Bank of England, FCA and PRA. In this role you will be instrumental in safeguarding critical data services for customers, colleagues, and markets. Deliver the intent of PRA SS1/21, FCA PS21/3, and DORA within the CDAO Data Resilience team.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure resilience solutions across on-prem and cloud environments
• Define and deliver hosting and recovery strategies for critical platforms and services
• Evaluate and recommend architectures based on RTO, RPO, cost, and performance
• Develop and automate recovery runbooks for infrastructure and application services
• Execute and orchestrate restore workflows, integrity checks, and cutover processes
• Lead and run disaster recovery drills with Network, Infrastructure, Platform, and Data teams
• Capture findings and drive remediation to strengthen resilience posture
• Protect core platforms: databases, messaging queues, batch schedulers, file/object stores
• Standardize and optimize backup and snapshot strategies across multiple technologies
• Integrate resilience processes with ServiceNow (Incident, Change, Problem)
• Maintain CMDB accuracy for infrastructure, backup tools, storage, and network components
• Track and report resilience metrics: backup success, recovery success, RPO, MTTR
• Present performance and risk reduction to senior leadership
• Ensure compliance with resilience standards and regulatory requirements
• Feed outcomes into Data Resilience Assessments

Qualifications and Experience

• Hands-on delivery experience of infrastructure solutions for resilience and recovery
• Cloud and on-prem expertise: compute, storage, networking, segmentation, connectivity
• Proven disaster recovery experience: automated restore, rebuild, and cutover
• Backup and recovery for databases, messaging queues, batch jobs, and large-scale data stores
• Disaster recovery drills: end-to-end execution, audit trails, RTO/RPO compliance
• Strong ITIL knowledge: Major Incident, Problem, and Change leadership
• ServiceNow experience: CMDB modelling, Discovery, Flow Designer, workflow automation
• Security-first mindset: encryption, key rotation, secrets management, dual control
• Automation skills: PowerShell, Python, Terraform, or equivalent
• Stakeholder engagement across CISO, Platforms, Networks, DBAs, and Risk teams
• Regulatory awareness: PRA SS1/21, FCA PS21/3, DORA; IBS and impact tolerance in practice

Culture and Benefits

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too. 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. We especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. If you need reasonable adjustments to recruitment processes, 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. At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.