Job Title: Contract Technology Resilience Enterprise Architect Location: Sheffield (Hybrid Working) Duration: 10 Month initial contract IR35 Status: Inside IR35 The Opportunity We are seeking an experienced Technology Resilience Enterprise Architect to join a major financial services organisation on a contract basis. This role is hybrid, based in Sheffield, and sits inside IR35. You will play a key role in shaping and delivering enterprise-wide technology resilience strategy, ensuring systems, platforms and services are designed and operated to the highest standards of reliability, recoverability and operational excellence. This is a strategic and hands‑on architecture role, requiring deep technical expertise and the ability to influence across large, complex technology estates. Key Responsibilities

Contribute to the Technology Resilience strategy and sub‑strategies, covering all aspects of resilience including: Applications Infrastructure & Cloud Security Data Observability Operations Culture Collaborate with Technology teams to develop and embed best‑practice resilience design patterns and reusable solutions. Establish strong feedback loops from production incident data into engineering and architecture best practices. Support the growth of resilience capability and skills across Technology teams. Contribute to architecture and design of central resilience services and tooling, improving visibility of resilience activities across the organisation. Lead strategic thinking around resilience improvement approaches and how resilience gaps should be identified and addressed. Senior Engineer and/or Architect with experience across one or more of: Infrastructure / Cloud Security Data Proven Technology Resilience specialist with experience designing for high availability, fault tolerance and recoverability in large‑scale environments. Strong experience working in complex enterprise environments, ideally within regulated industries.

Our client is building a strong Technology Resilience Architecture team with a blend of skills. Experience in some of the following areas would be highly advantageous:

DevOps practices Infrastructure as Code & Automation CI/CD pipelines & Automated Testing SRE / Production Support SLOs, SLIs and Error Budgets Observability (Logging, Monitoring, Telemetry, Metrics) Strategy development & authorship Experience in global organisations Data analysis / AI on large datasets IT Service Management

Highly desirable

Knowledge of the ServiceNow platform, particularly:

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