Senior Enterprise Architect; Resilience and Risk

Job Information

End date Monday 02 March 2026

Salary range £92,701 - £109,060

Job title: Technology Resilience Enterprise Architect

Salary: £90,000 - £106,400

Locations: Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds, or Halifax

Hours: Full‑time

Working pattern: Hybrid (40% or two days) onsite in one of the above cities

The resilience of our business and the technology that underpins it is a top priority – failure of critical service is not an option! Would you like to protect our customers and help Britain prosper, whilst working with the latest technology? The Group is entering an exciting phase of strengthening our resilience strategy, adopting modern technology shifts to strengthen vital services, growing toward achieving our north star of ensuring our customer services remain in continuous operation.

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:

• Develop and embed comprehensive proactive resilience and recovery response capabilities, including preventative software‑level resilience, automated failover, rapid service rebuild, and data restoration from backups.
• Build compelling architecture strategies with comprehensive inputs from business, engineering, operations, industry, and vendors, proactively guiding the group.
• Identify, evaluate, and recommend emerging technologies that could enhance enterprise resilience.
• Build positive relationships with engineering teams to support the design and delivery of capability.
• Guide senior business collaborators on the significance of resilience.
• Assist in establishing required operating models to achieve resilience outcomes, proving resilience levels across critical services.

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

If you have a strong resilience architecture background, we want to hear from you.

• Proficiency in modern cloud-based architectures and achieving resilience through composable architecture techniques such as microservices, APIs, event streams, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with modern AI‑Ops and observability capabilities.
• Knowledge of traditional datacenter-hosted architectures, including complex enterprise infrastructure such as storage, backup, and middleware technologies.
• Expertise in disaster recovery strategies and assurance.
• Aware of emerging technologies and how they could be maximised for resilience.
• Knowledge of enterprise service management and operational tooling/methodologies such as SRE.
• Proven experience engaging across organisations at a senior level.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Technical experience within financial services organizations.
• Good understanding of Operational Resilience and critical third‑party regulation.
• Experience in data management, specifically ensuring data integrity and availability.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. 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're disability confident, so if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Discounted shopping and other adaptable benefits.
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

Want to do amazing work that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people?
Join our journey