Security Architect – Cyber Recovery

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

We are seeking an experienced part time Cyber Recovery Security Architect to support a major cyber resilience and recovery programme within a complex enterprise environment.

This role will play a critical part in defining, validating, and testing enterprise cyber recovery capabilities, ensuring recovery processes, technical dependencies, and governance frameworks are fit for purpose and aligned with organisational resilience objectives.

The Opportunity

As part of a strategic cyber recovery initiative, you will work closely with technology, security, architecture, and business stakeholders to design and validate recovery capabilities for critical services and data. You will lead technical workshops, challenge recovery assumptions, and provide assurance over recovery plans and processes.

The programme is focused on delivering:

• Enterprise Data and Service Loss recovery playbooks, tested against realistic threat scenarios
• Clearly defined cyber recovery roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities
• A robust Cyber Recovery Assurance process operating across the organisation

Key Responsibilities

• Support the 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

Required Experience

• 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

Essential Knowledge

• Strong understanding of cyber recovery frameworks and best practices
• Good understanding of application architecture, infrastructure, and recovery dependencies
• Experience working with business, security, infrastructure, and architecture stakeholders to define recovery outcomes

Please note: This is a part time role working only 1-2 days a week.