Lead Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Lead Enterprise Architect
Location: Sheffield (3 x days per week on site)
Salary/Rate: Up to £500 per day
Start Date: April 2026
Job Type: 8 month contract (Inside IR35)

Introduction:
The ideal candidate is passionate about technology resilience, with knowledge of how the ways that a service is designed, built, and run contribute to overall resilience. They will work on the big global resilience initiatives within our tier 1 banking client and play a key role in uplifting the quality and availability of service for our customers.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• Resilience Deep Dive process and management implementation into ServiceNow Continual Improvement Management (CIM).
• Resilience Improvements process and management implementation into ServiceNow Continual Improvement Management (CIM).
• Resilience Vulnerability data investigations.
• Design of the migration from home grown Technology Vulnerability management to ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management (IRM).
• Strategic initiatives on Double Failure Resilience and Mass DR scenarios.
• Recovery Time Objective redefinition and embedding within the organisation.
• LI/SLO/Error Budgets and Availability Management approach and strategy for the organisation.
• Contribute to the Technology Resilience strategy and sub-strategies, considering all aspects of resilience: application, infrastructure, security, data, observability, operations and culture.
• Collaborate with Technology teams on building best practice resilience design patterns and solutions, for re-use.
• Build strong feedback loops from production incident data to the best practice for designing, engineering and running Technology services.
• Help to grow resilience skills within Technology teams.
• Contribute to architecture and designs for central resilience services and tooling to enable resilience activity visibility.
• Lead the thinking on approaches to improve resilience and how resilience gaps should be catered for within the organisation.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Senior engineer/architect in some or all of these technology domains: Application, Infrastructure/Cloud, Security, Data.
• Technology resilience specialist.

Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

• Application architecture
• Infrastructure/Cloud architecture
• Microservices architecture
• DevOps
• Container architecture
• Infrastructure as Code and Automation
• CI/CD pipeline and Automated Testing
• SRE/Production Support
• Implementation of SLOs, SLIs and Error Budgets
• Observability (Logging, Monitoring, Telemetry, Metrics)
• Chaos Engineering
• FMEA/Scenario testing
• Strategy author
• Banking experience
• Global organisation experience
• Data analysis/AI on large data sets, drawing conclusions and insights.
• IT Service Management

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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