Senior Enterprise Architect (Resilience and Risk)

TL;DR

Senior Enterprise Architect (Resilience and Risk): Develop and embed technology resilience and recovery strategies to ensure continuous operation of critical financial services with an accent on cloud architectures, AI-Ops, disaster recovery, and operational resilience. Focus on designing composable architectures, guiding senior stakeholders, and evaluating emerging technologies to enhance enterprise resilience.

Location: Hybrid with 40% onsite presence in Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds, or Halifax, United Kingdom

Salary: £92,701 - £109,060

Company

hirify.global is a leading UK financial services group investing in people, data, and technology to innovate and support millions of customers.

What you will do

• Develop and embed proactive resilience and recovery capabilities across technology systems.
• Build architecture strategies incorporating inputs from business, engineering, operations, and vendors.
• Identify and recommend emerging technologies to enhance enterprise resilience.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to support capability design and delivery.
• Advise senior business stakeholders on resilience and risk levels.
• Assist in establishing operating models to achieve resilience outcomes and assurance.

Requirements

• Location: Must be able to work hybrid with onsite presence in Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds, or Halifax, UK
• Strong background in resilience architecture and cloud-based composable architectures (microservices, APIs, event streams, CI/CD).
• Experience with AI-Ops, observability, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Knowledge of enterprise infrastructure including storage, backup, and middleware.
• Proven ability to engage with senior stakeholders across organizations.
• Understanding of operational resilience and critical third-party regulation is beneficial.

Nice to have

• Technical experience within financial services organizations.
• Experience in data management ensuring data integrity and availability.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive and diverse work environment with initiatives supporting under-represented groups.
• Generous pension contributions up to 15% and annual bonus subject to performance.
• Share schemes including free shares and adaptable lifestyle benefits.
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays and generous parental leave policies.
• Wellbeing initiatives and support for disabilities and health conditions.