Architecture & Assurance Lead (Cyber Recovery)

Click Digital; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Click Digital in Dublin is seeking an Architecture & Assurance Lead for a strategic Cyber Recovery programme. You will provide independent technical leadership, governance, and assurance, ensuring alignment with business, security, and operational recovery objectives.

The role demands senior experience in cyber recovery, disaster recovery, resilience, and strong stakeholder management. Hybrid working arrangement applies with three days on site.

Qualifications

• Senior Enterprise/Infrastructure/Security/Recovery Architect with a proven delivery record in Cyber Recovery, Disaster Recovery, resilience, or business continuity.

Responsibilities

• Define, govern, and assure the target Cyber Recovery Architecture.
• Provide architecture governance and technical oversight across programme workstreams.
• Conduct solution assurance and design reviews.
• Identify technical risks, gaps, and dependencies, driving mitigation plans.
• Challenge suppliers and stakeholders to ensure best-practice recovery and resilience outcomes.
• Work closely with architecture, security, infrastructure, operations, and third-party suppliers.
• Provide executive-level reporting and architectural guidance.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Governance

Cyber recovery

Disaster recovery

Business continuity

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Independent technical leadership

Job description

We are recruiting for a Architecture & Assurance Lead (Cyber Recovery) for a leading IT service provider based in Dublin. This is a hybrid role with 3 days a week on site, 2 days WFH.

We are looking for an experienced Architecture & Assurance Lead to provide independent technical leadership, governance, and assurance across a strategic Cyber Recovery programme. The successful candidate will act as a trusted advisor, ensuring all solutions, suppliers, and technologies align to deliver a resilient, end-to-end cyber recovery capability that meets business, security, and operational recovery objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, govern, and assure the target Cyber Recovery Architecture.
• Provide architecture governance and technical oversight across programme workstreams.
• Conduct solution assurance and design reviews.
• Identify technical risks, gaps, and dependencies, driving mitigation plans.
• Challenge suppliers and stakeholders to ensure best-practice recovery and resilience outcomes.
• Work closely with architecture, security, infrastructure, operations, and third-party suppliers.
• Provide executive-level reporting and architectural guidance.

Essential Experience

• Senior Enterprise, Infrastructure, Security, or Recovery Architect.
• Proven delivery of Cyber Recovery, Disaster Recovery, Resilience, or Business Continuity programmes.
• Strong architecture governance and assurance experience.
• Experience in complex multi-supplier environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Ability to provide independent technical leadership and challenge.

Desired Skills & Certifications

• TOGAF, CISSP, CISM, SABSA, or equivalent.
• Enterprise Architecture & Governance.
• Cyber Recovery & Operational Resilience.
• Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity (BCP).
• Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, Security Architecture.

Ideal Profile: A senior architect with strong cyber resilience and recovery expertise who can provide governance, assurance, and independent technical leadership across a business-critical programme