Technology Resilience Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Contract Technology Resilience Enterprise Architect

Location: Sheffield (Hybrid Working)

Duration: 10 Month initial contract

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

We are seeking an experienced Technology Resilience Enterprise Architect to join a major financial services organisation on a contract basis. This role is hybrid, based in Sheffield, and sits inside IR35.

You will play a key role in shaping and delivering enterprise-wide technology resilience strategy, ensuring systems, platforms and services are designed and operated to the highest standards of reliability, recoverability and operational excellence.

This is a strategic and hands‑on architecture role, requiring deep technical expertise and the ability to influence across large, complex technology estates.

• Contribute to the Technology Resilience strategy and sub‑strategies, covering all aspects of resilience including:
• Applications
• Infrastructure & Cloud
• Security
• Data
• Observability
• Operations
• Culture
• Collaborate with Technology teams to develop and embed best‑practice resilience design patterns and reusable solutions.
• Establish strong feedback loops from production incident data into engineering and architecture best practices.
• Support the growth of resilience capability and skills across Technology teams.
• Contribute to architecture and design of central resilience services and tooling, improving visibility of resilience activities across the organisation.
• Lead strategic thinking around resilience improvement approaches and how resilience gaps should be identified and addressed.
• Senior Engineer and/or Architect with experience across one or more of:
• Infrastructure / Cloud
• Security
• Data
• Proven Technology Resilience specialist with experience designing for high availability, fault tolerance and recoverability in large‑scale environments.
• Strong experience working in complex enterprise environments, ideally within regulated industries.

Our client is building a strong Technology Resilience Architecture team with a blend of skills. Experience in some of the following areas would be highly advantageous:

• Dev Ops practices
• Infrastructure as Code & Automation
• CI/CD pipelines & Automated Testing
• SRE / Production Support
• SLOs, SLIs and Error Budgets
• Observability (Logging, Monitoring, Telemetry, Metrics)
• Strategy development & authorship
• Experience in global organisations
• Data analysis / AI on large datasets
• IT Service Management

• Knowledge of the Service Now platform, particularly: