Data Resilience Engineering Lead

Data Resilience Engineering Lead (Contract)

Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

Locations:
London | Birmingham | Edinburgh | Bristol | Manchester
On-site: 2 days per week
Duration: 6 months
Rate:
Competitive - via umbrella company

The Role

Join a major UK financial services organisation and help drive its enterprise data resilience agenda. You'll ensure critical data assets are secure, available, and recoverable within regulatory tolerances, working across a large, complex technology landscape.

This role blends hands-on technical expertise with senior stakeholder influence in a highly regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

Lead data resilience initiatives across on-prem, cloud, and third-party environments.

Design and embed resilience controls across data flows, middleware, APIs, messaging, and batch processes.

Perform data resilience assessments and identify risks across availability, integrity, and security.

Build end-to-end data lineage using tools such as Ins-Pi and Service Now.

Present findings and influence remediation through senior governance forums.

Skills & Experience

Essential

Strong experience in data resilience, backup/recovery, encryption, messaging, batch processing, and cloud technologies.

Banking or insurance background with knowledge of critical services (e.g. payments, cards, pensions).

Understanding of FCA, PRA, and EBA operational resilience expectations.

Risk, control, and enterprise architecture experience.

Desirable

Hybrid cloud resilience and disaster recovery experience.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered please click the "apply" button.

We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly