Part-Time Cyber Recovery Architect: Resilience & Assurance

Barclay Simpson; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 73,000 - 127,000; Part time

Job summary

Barclay Simpson is seeking an experienced part-time Cyber Recovery Security Architect to support a major cyber resilience and recovery programme within a complex enterprise environment.

The role focuses on defining, validating, and testing enterprise cyber recovery capabilities, ensuring recovery processes and governance are fit for purpose and aligned with resilience objectives. You will lead technical workshops, challenge assumptions, and provide assurance over recovery plans.

Qualifications

• Strong background in Cyber Security, Cyber Resilience, Disaster Recovery, or Operational Resilience.
• Experience designing, assessing, or assuring cyber recovery and service recovery processes.
• Ability to challenge technical recovery plans and validate complex recovery scenarios.
• Experience identifying and mapping technical dependencies across enterprise environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to facilitate technical workshops.
• Experience working within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with recovery orchestration, operational readiness, and resilience testing.

Responsibilities

• Support planning, facilitation, and execution of Cyber Recovery workshops across multiple product groups.
• Review, challenge, and help define technical recovery plans for critical services and applications.
• Validate technical recovery assumptions and recovery strategies.
• Assess and document application recovery architectures and technical interdependencies.
• Work closely with Product Group Architects and technical teams to ratify recovery approaches.
• Contribute to the development and testing of recovery playbooks for Priority 1 data and service loss scenarios.
• Identify process, tooling, governance, and operational gaps within recovery processes.
• Provide technical assurance and validation of recovery outputs prior to publication within Cutover.
• Support cyber recovery proof-of-concept activities and future automation initiatives.

Skills

Cyber security

Cyber resilience

Disaster recovery

Operational resilience

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

Barclay Simpson is seeking an experienced part-time Cyber Recovery Security Architect to support a major cyber resilience and recovery programme within a complex enterprise environment.

The role focuses on defining, validating, and testing enterprise cyber recovery capabilities, ensuring recovery processes and governance are fit for purpose and aligned with resilience objectives. You will lead technical workshops, challenge assumptions, and provide assurance over recovery plans.