Senior Manager - Data Resilience

Lloyd's; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the United Kingdom seeks a Data Resilience Specialist to lead the identification and remediation of data gaps across technology platforms. Responsibilities include tracking data flow to prevent loss, establishing control frameworks, and analyzing outcomes of assessments. Ideal candidates will have experience in financial services, strong technical knowledge of operational resilience, and expertise in managing risks and controls. The position offers a competitive benefits package including generous pension contributions and performance bonuses.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual bonus award

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

30 days’ holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience identifying data resiliency issues on middleware components.
• Exposure to financial services like payments and insurance.
• Technical knowledge of FCA, PRA, EBA guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Track data flow across platforms to prevent loss and cyber threats.
• Establish controls and frameworks for vulnerability identification.
• Support data resilience assessments and policy changes.
• Analyse assessment outcomes to pinpoint vulnerabilities.

Skills

Data resiliency issue identification

Financial Services experience

Risk and controls management

Disaster Recovery

Data encryption

Tools

Ins-Pi Designer

Ardoq

ServiceNow

Job description

Overview

Leads the identification, assessment, visualisation and remediation of known gaps in the Group’s Data Resilience position. Leads the annual Data Resilience Assessments alongside key stakeholders and provides support for centrally funded initiatives. The Data Resilience team is a new chapter within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. It has the responsibility to define and embed new Strategies, Operating Models and Control Frameworks to protect the Bank’s critical data services that our customers, colleagues and the market rely upon.

Responsibilities

• Track data flow across technology platforms to prevent loss, corruption, and cyber threats, ensuring recovery within business impact tolerance.
• Help establish controls and frameworks to identify vulnerabilities across on‑premise, cloud, middleware, databases, third‑party apps, messaging queues, and APIs.
• Support data resilience assessments and embed standards via operating model and policy changes.
• Analyse assessment outcomes and pinpoint vulnerabilities in data availability, integrity, and security.
• Create data lineage using Ins‑Pi and ServiceNow, detailing data movement and application dependencies.
• Present findings to governance forums and drive remediation plans for identified vulnerabilities.

Qualifications

• Prior experience working within a role where you have been responsible for identifying data resiliency issues on middleware components e.g. batches, messaging queues, third‑party data connections, encryption, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity, and cloud technologies.
• Financial Services experience and exposure to payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys.
• Technical knowledge of FCA, PRA, EBA guidelines on operational resilience.
• Good experience managing risks and controls.
• Desirable— exposure to either Ins‑Pi Designer or Ardoq for drawing data lineage.
• Solid experience in batches, messaging queues, third‑party data connections, encryption, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity and cloud technologies is essential.
• Good experience in Disaster Recovery, back‑up and restore, cyber threats and monitoring, data encryption domains.

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