Part-Time Cyber Recovery Architect for Enterprise Resilience

Barclay Simpson; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

Barclay Simpson is seeking an experienced Cyber Recovery Security Architect on a part-time basis to lead the design, validation, and testing of enterprise cyber recovery capabilities within a complex environment.

You will drive workshops, challenge recovery assumptions, and provide assurance over plans and processes, ensuring alignment with resilience objectives and governance frameworks.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and assuring cyber recovery and service recovery processes.
• Ability to challenge recovery plans and validate complex scenarios.
• Experience mapping technical dependencies across large enterprises.
• Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.
• Experience in large-scale enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Plan, facilitate, and execute cyber recovery workshops across product groups.
• Review and define technical recovery plans for critical services.
• Validate recovery assumptions and strategies.
• Assess and document recovery architectures and dependencies.
• Ratify recovery approaches with product group teams.
• Develop and test recovery playbooks for Priority 1 scenarios.
• Identify gaps in recovery processes, tooling, governance, and operations.
• Provide technical assurance of recovery outputs prior to publication.
• Support proof-of-concept activities and future automation.

Skills

Cyber security

Disaster recovery

Operational resilience

Stakeholder management

Workshop facilitation

Enterprise architecture

Job description

Barclay Simpson is seeking an experienced Cyber Recovery Security Architect on a part-time basis to lead the design, validation, and testing of enterprise cyber recovery capabilities within a complex environment.

You will drive workshops, challenge recovery assumptions, and provide assurance over plans and processes, ensuring alignment with resilience objectives and governance frameworks.