Solutions Architect

Technology Resilience Lead Enterprise Architect

Contract – inside IR35

UK based

£700 per day

A global technology consultancy is seeking a senior Technology Resilience Lead Enterprise Architect to embed within a major financial services client. The programme is funded for three years, with an initial six-month contract.

This is a horizontal enterprise architecture role focused on raising resilience maturity across a complex, multi-region banking estate.

You will operate across application, cloud, infrastructure, data and operational domains, shaping resilience standards and influencing engineering practices at scale.

Key responsibilities:

• Contribute to enterprise technology resilience strategy across application, infrastructure, security, data and operations

• Define and embed reusable resilience design patterns and reference architectures

• Turn production incident data and failure analysis into architectural improvements

• Drive adoption of SRE practices including SLOs, SLIs and error budgets

• Strengthen observability standards across logging, monitoring and telemetry

• Support resilience scenario testing, FMEA and controlled failure exercises

• Contribute to central resilience tooling and visibility initiatives

• Produce architecture and strategy papers for senior technology leadership

Essential experience:

• Senior engineer or enterprise architect background across cloud, application, infrastructure or data

• Demonstrable expertise in technology resilience and service availability

• Experience within large, regulated financial services environments

• Strong understanding of DevOps and SRE operating models

• Experience with CI/CD, automation and infrastructure as code

• Ability to analyse incident and operational data to drive systemic improvements

Desirable:

• Microservices and container architecture

• Observability tooling and telemetry frameworks

• IT Service Management

• ServiceNow exposure, particularly Continual Improvement or Integrated Risk modules

• Experience operating within global organisations

This role requires a technically credible architect with an engineering mindset who can challenge constructively at senior level and drive resilience uplift across distributed teams.

Contract details:

• Inside IR35

• £700 per day

• Initial six months

• Three-year funded programme

• UK based

• Consultancy engagement embedded within financial services client

If you have deep resilience architecture experience and want to influence reliability at enterprise scale, please get in touch.