Operational Resilience Architecture/Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Operational Resilience Architecture/Enterprise Architect - Operational Resilience Location: London Working arrangement : Hybrid - 2-3 days per week in the office Contract duration: 6 months, with potential for extension Rate: Highly competitive Status : Inside IR35 The Opportunity We are seeking an experienced Operational Resilience Architecture Lead/Enterprise Architect to play a key role in a strategic technology resilience and modernisation programme within a highly regulated financial services environment.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in improving and modernising the organisation's existing operational resilience capabilities, ensuring that its technology architecture, processes and frameworks align with regulatory expectations and business requirements.

Working at Director level, you will combine architectural expertise with a strong understanding of operational resilience, helping the organisation assess its current capabilities, identify gaps and define the future-state architecture and resilience framework The role will also involve engaging with senior stakeholders, communicating technical recommendations at executive level and ensuring architecture decisions support regulatory expectations, particularly those of the PRA and FCA, alongside DORA where relevant.

Essential Experience and Skills We are particularly interested in candidates with: Experience in technology architecture, enterprise architecture or senior technical leadership. Strong experience within banking, capital markets or another highly regulated financial services environment.

Experience regulatory requirements relating to operational resilience, particularly DORA, PRA and/or FCA. Proven experience designing, assessing or enhancing operational resilience frameworks and capabilities. Experience leading or contributing significantly to operational resilience transformation, technology modernisation or regulatory remediation programmes.

Understanding of UK operational resilience expectations, including PRA/FCA requirements, Important Business Services, Impact Tolerances, service mapping and scenario testing. Experience across one or more architecture domains, including Enterprise, Solution, Application, Infrastructure or Cloud Architecture.

Ability to assess existing resilience capabilities, identify gaps and define improvement strategies and target architecture roadmaps. Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, fault tolerance, business continuity and technology recoverability.

Experience working across cloud, infrastructure, applications, data, integration and security teams. Excellent...

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