Critical Business Recovery Lead

TL;DR

Critical Business Recovery Lead (Cyber-Resilience): Driving the engineering function responsible for safeguarding the Group’s most critical infrastructure and recovery capabilities with an accent on operational excellence, strategic resilience, and platform evolution. Focus on incident, problem, and change portfolio management, owning the technology roadmap, and developing high-performing engineering teams.

Location: Hybrid in Manchester, UK (at least two days per week, or 40% of time, at office sites)

Salary: £92,701 - £109,060

Company

hirify.global is transforming its services by investing in technology, workplaces, and colleagues to shape the future of finance.

What you will do

• Lead a team supporting and enhancing critical safeguarding and recovery infrastructure, ensuring operational excellence.
• Own and drive incident, problem, and change portfolio management, including root-cause analysis and accelerating time-to-recovery.
• Sponsor major investment initiatives, ensuring controlled delivery, quality outcomes, and long-term sustainability.
• Own the technology roadmap for CyberVault and critical business recovery, aligning with operational resilience strategy.
• Shape the engineering operating model, embedding secure-by-design practices and architectural alignment.
• Coach and develop engineers, building capability through mentoring and knowledge-sharing.

Requirements

• Leadership experience in infrastructure, recovery platforms, cyber-resilience, or similar secure environments.
• Strong understanding of backup, safeguarding, recovery disciplines, and critical business services.
• Proven experience building, coaching, and uplifting technical teams.
• Ability to translate technical risk and complexity into clear business language.
• Excellent stakeholder skills, especially in pressured or incident environments.
• Passion for driving engineering excellence, automation, and continuous improvement.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive culture that encourages innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual performance-related bonus and share schemes.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
• Hybrid work style requiring at least two days per week in the office.