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.