Operational Resilience Consultant

Operational Resilience Consultant
6-month contract
Market rate - Inside IR35
Hybrid - 2/3 days in Sheffield

We are seeking an experienced Proactive Resilience & Innovation Consultant to support a large-scale Operational Resilience programme supporting a banking clinet in a complex enterprise technology environment.
The role will focus on analysing Important Business Services (IBS), mapping technology dependencies, and designing severe-but-plausible disruption scenarios to identify systemic resilience risks.
This is an execution-focused role supporting the operationalisation of resilience across engineering and technology teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Map technology dependencies supporting critical services
• Design and analyse severe-but-plausible disruption scenarios
• Identify systemic technology risks impacting impact tolerances
• Support resilience assessments and impact tolerance analysis
• Produce scenario analysis, service dependency, and risk insights
• Support prioritisation of remediation activities
• Work closely with engineering, infrastructure, and operational stakeholders

Key Skills & Experience

• Operational Resilience, Technology Resilience, or Business Continuity experience
• Experience with IBS, resilience assessments, or service dependency analysis
• Strong understanding of technology risk and operational failure scenarios
• Experience within large enterprise or regulated environments
• Strong stakeholder engagement and analytical skills
• Ability to challenge assumptions and drive practical outcomes

Desirable

• Financial services experience
• Knowledge of UK Operational Resilience and/or DORA
• Exposure to ServiceNow, CMDBs, or observability tooling
• Infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise architecture background

Candidate Profile We are looking for delivery-focused consultants who can combine operational resilience understanding with practical execution capability in complex technology environments.