Resilience Architect

Reply; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Reply specialises in designing and implementing solutions across new communication channels and digital media. We are seeking a Resilience Architect to join our consulting practice to design, assess and enhance resilience capabilities for clients.

You will work with senior stakeholders to shape resilience strategies and uplift capabilities across complex organisations. The role requires a blend of technical depth, regulatory awareness and strong advisory skills, with duties spanning assessments,

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise, operational, or infrastructure resilience.
• Hands-on experience with BCP/DR frameworks, testing, and execution.
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure), including resilience design considerations.
• Ability to translate technical detail into business-focused insights for senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor on enterprise resilience strategy, frameworks, and best practices.
• Champion resilience across client organisations and within the consulting practice, influencing technical and business stakeholders.
• Conduct current-state assessments of infrastructure and organisational resilience capabilities.
• Define and deliver resilience uplift programmes, including roadmap development and prioritisation.
• Provide expertise in infrastructure resilience controls, cloud resilience design, and BCP/DR.

Skills

Resilience architecture

Client-facing

Regulatory awareness

Stakeholder communication

ITIL incident management

Storytelling

Tools

AWS

Azure

Observability tooling

Enterprise backup

Job description

Reply specialises in designing and implementing solutions based on new communication channels and digital media. Structured as a network of highly specialised companies, Reply supports leading European industrial groups in sectors such as Telco & Media, Industry and Services, Banking and Insurance, and Public Administration, helping define and develop business models enabled by new paradigms such as AI, Cloud Computing, Digital Media, and the Internet of Things. Reply’s services include Consulting, System Integration, and Digital Services.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Resilience Architect to join our consulting practice, supporting clients in designing, assessing and enhancing their resilience capabilities. This is a client-facing role requiring a blend of technical depth, regulatory awareness and strong advisory skills. You will work with senior stakeholders to shape resilience strategies, uplift capabilities and embed best practices across complex organisations.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor on enterprise resilience strategy, frameworks, and best practices
• Champion and evangelise resilience across client organisations and within the consulting practice, influencing technical and business stakeholders
• Conduct current-state assessments of infrastructure and organisational resilience capabilities
• Define and deliver resilience uplift programmes, including roadmap development and prioritisation
• Provide expertise in infrastructure resilience controls, cloud resilience design (AWS/Azure), and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR)
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with client teams across technology, operations, and business functions
• Analyse complex environments across technology, processes, and people, translating findings into clear recommendations
• Produce high-quality deliverables, communicate with senior and regulatory stakeholders, and support sales, proposals, and thought leadership

About the Candidate

• Strong consulting mindset with experience delivering in client-facing roles
• Recognised expertise in enterprise, operational, or infrastructure resilience
• Proven experience assessing and improving resilience controls across infrastructure environments
• Hands-on experience with Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) frameworks, testing, and execution
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure), including resilience design considerations, and enterprise backup and recovery toolsets
• Understanding of enterprise architecture and/or business process design within infrastructure or hosting domains
• Ability to navigate complex and ambiguous problems, work across multiple stakeholders and competing priorities, and translate technical detail into business-focused insights, supported by strong communication and storytelling skills
• Experience within Financial Services, including Operational Resilience programmes, Important Business Services (IBS), Impact Tolerances (ITOL), and regulatory engagement, as well as prior experience in a consultancy or advisory firm, would be beneficial
• AWS certification or demonstrable deep platform knowledge, along with working knowledge of networking fundamentals, incident management frameworks (e.g. ITIL), and observability and monitoring tooling, would be advantageous

Reply is an Equal Opportunities Employer and committed to embracing diversity in the workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, identity, pregnancy, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, medical history, skin colour, marital status or parental status or any other characteristic protected by the Law.

Reply is committed to making sure that our selection methods are fair to everyone. To help you during the recruitment process, please let us know of any Reasonable Adjustments you may need.