Cyber Recovery Architecture & Assurance Lead

E‑Frontiers; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

E‑Frontiers is seeking an Architecture and Assurance Lead to provide independent technical leadership, governance, and assurance across the Cyber Recovery Technology Programme. The role ensures target architecture alignment with business, security, and recovery objectives, working with technology teams, stakeholders, and suppliers.

The ideal candidate will lead Design Authority activities, review designs, and challenge technical assumptions while guiding recovery strategies, roadmaps, and

Qualifications

• Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, or Cyber Recovery Architecture experience (Essential)
• Experience designing and governing Cyber Recovery, Disaster Recovery, or Operational Resilience programmes (Essential)
• Experience in Critical Infrastructure, Transport, Aviation, Utilities, Financial Services, or NIS2-regulated environments (Highly Desirable)
• Experience leading Design Authority, Architecture Governance, and Technical Assurance activities (Essential)
• Proven experience managing architecture across multi‑supplier technology programmes (Essential)
• Strong understanding of recovery architectures, cyber resilience principles, and operational resilience frameworks (Essential)
• Strong understanding of Identity, Access Management, Active Directory, MFA, PAM, and recovery authentication models (Essential)
• Experience with immutable backup platforms, cyber recovery vaults, air‑gapped recovery solutions, and clean room environments (Essential)

Responsibilities

• Become the technical architecture lead for the Cyber Recovery Technology Programme.
• Develop, maintain, and govern the Target Cyber Recovery Architecture.
• Define architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and design patterns for cyber recovery and operational resilience.
• Ensure all programme workstreams, technologies, and suppliers integrate into a cohesive recovery capability.
• Review and assure technical designs produced by internal teams and third‑party suppliers.
• Challenge technical assumptions, architectural decisions, and supplier proposals.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt, hidden dependencies, and single points of failure.
• Validate recovery strategies, recovery operating models, and technology roadmaps.
• Support procurement activities, technology evaluations, and supplier selection exercises.
• Participate in Design Authority and technical governance forums.
• Review and assess recovery runbooks, recovery methodologies, and recovery testing approaches.
• Support cyber recovery testing, simulation exercises, and recovery readiness reviews.
• Produce architecture assurance reports, dependency assessments, and technical recommendations.
• Ensure programme solutions align with agreed Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
• Review industry trends, emerging technologies, and cyber recovery best practices to ensure adoption to best‑in‑class recovery capability.
• Provide architecture leadership and assurance across recovery infrastructure, immutable backup platforms, cyber recovery vaults, clean room environments, application recovery workstreams, and supporting technology domains.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Solution Architecture

Cyber Recovery

Design Authority

Technical Assurance

Tools

VMware vSphere

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Microsoft SQL Server

Oracle RAC

Azure

Job description

E‑Frontiers is seeking an Architecture and Assurance Lead to provide independent technical leadership, governance, and assurance across the Cyber Recovery Technology Programme. The role ensures target architecture alignment with business, security, and recovery objectives, working with technology teams, stakeholders, and suppliers.

The ideal candidate will lead Design Authority activities, review designs, and challenge technical assumptions while guiding recovery strategies, roadmaps, and