Senior Enterprise Architect (Resilience and Risk)

Lloyd's; Manchester; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in Manchester is seeking a Technology Resilience Enterprise Architect to enhance their resilience architecture capabilities. You will develop proactive strategies, assess emerging technologies, and work with engineering teams to ensure robust recovery processes. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud architecture and disaster recovery. This role offers a competitive salary and various benefits including a generous pension contribution and 30 days of holiday.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days of holiday

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proficiency in modern Cloud based architectures.
• Experience with AI-Ops and observability capabilities.
• Expertise in disaster recovery strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and embed resilience and recovery response capabilities.
• Build architecture strategies based on inputs from various stakeholders.
• Identify and recommend emerging technologies for resilience.

Skills

Cloud based architectures

Resilience through composable architecture techniques

AI-Ops and observability capabilities

Disaster recovery strategies

Data management to ensure integrity and availability

Operational resilience knowledge

Job description

As a Technology Resilience Enterprise Architect, you'll join an expert team who have been empowered to explore the art of the possible. Working within Technology Resilience & Risk Architecture, as part of our Chief Technology Office, you'll …

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and embed comprehensive proactive resilience and recovery response capabilities, with a focus across the spectrum of technology resilience, including preventative software level resilience, automated failover & rapid service rebuild including restoration of data from backups.
• Build compelling architecture strategies with comprehensive inputs from Business, Engineering, Operations, Industry and Vendors, pro‑actively guiding the Group.
• Identify, evaluate & recommend emerging technologies across industry that could enhance our enterprise resilience, influencing the direction of our investment portfolios.
• Build positive relationships with engineering teams to support the design and delivery of capability.
• Guide senior business collaborators on the significance of resilience, while highlighting various levels of risk.
• Assist in the establishment of required operating models to achieve resilience outcomes, including how we prove levels of resilience across critical services.
• If you have a strong resilience architecture background, we want to hear from you.

Qualifications & Experience

• Proficiency in modern Cloud based architectures, and achieving resilience through composable architecture techniques such as microservices, APIs, Event Streams and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience of modern AI‑Ops and observability capabilities.
• Knowledge of traditional datacentre hosted architectures, including complex enterprise infrastructure such as storage, backup and middleware technologies.
• Expertise in disaster recovery strategies including their assurance.
• Awareness of emerging technologies and how they could be maximised for resilience.
• Knowledge of enterprise service management and operational tooling / methodologies (e.g. SRE).
• Proven experience engaging across organisations at a senior level.
• Technical experience within financial services organisations.
• Good understanding of Operational Resilience and Critical Third‑Party regulation.
• Experience in data management, specifically ensuring data integrity and availability.

Benefits

• 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

Culture & Inclusion

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. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.