Enterprise Architect - Tech Resilience
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Experience
- At least 10 years of experience in infrastructure, solution, or enterprise architecture.
- At least 5 years of experience in technology resilience, high availability, and disaster recovery architecture.
Key responsibilities
- Provide technical architecture support for defining and evolving enterprise resilience and failover architecture.
- Assess current resilience and failover architecture across relevant applications, platforms, infrastructure, and dependencies.
- Identify architectural bottlenecks, single points of failure, recovery constraints, and cross-site dependency risks.
- Develop target-state resilience and failover architecture options aligned with rapid recovery objectives.
- Evaluate availability, recoverability, operability, complexity, cost, and implementation-risk trade-offs.
- Work with Enterprise Architecture, Technology Platforms, DR/Operations, Cyber Security, and application owners to validate assumptions and requirements.
- Produce architecture artefacts and recommendations for governance review; implementation and DR testing remain with accountable platform and operations teams.
Required skills
- Strong architecture experience in enterprise resilience, disaster recovery, high availability, and failover design.
- Knowledge of active-active, active-passive, multi-site, and multi-region architecture patterns.
- Ability to assess end-to-end application, infrastructure, network, data, integration, and cloud dependencies.
- Experience defining RTO/RPO-aligned architecture and analyzing recovery failure modes.
- Strong stakeholder facilitation, technical option assessment, and architecture documentation skills.
- Experience in regulated financial services or similarly critical environments is strongly preferred.
Key deliverables
- Current-state resilience and failover architecture assessment.
- Documented architecture risks, bottlenecks, dependency gaps, and prioritized remediation considerations.
- Target-state resilience and failover architecture for applications, platforms, infrastructure, and critical technology dependencies.
- Technical options paper with trade-offs, recommendations, and implementation dependencies.
- Architecture roadmap and transition considerations for the agreed target state.
- Governance-ready architecture pack, decisions, and recommendations supporting target-state approval and implementation planning.
Certifications and technical requirements
- TOGAF certification and relevant cloud architecture certification, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, are preferred.
- Business continuity or resilience certification such as CBCI is advantageous.
- Preferred technology stack includes hybrid infrastructure, cloud platforms, virtualization, container platforms, databases, storage and replication, network and load-balancing technologies, enterprise integration, and observability capabilities.
- Tools and platforms include ServiceNow CMDB, Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft 365.
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