Title: Technology Resilience Architect

Work Location: Manchester (Sheffield and London is also ok if the candidates are willing to travel to Manchester once a week.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

• Develop the Technology Resilience framework and support the roll out.
• Collaborate with Technology teams on building best practice resilience design patterns/solutions, for re-use.
• Help to build resilience skills within Technology teams.
• Contribute to the Technology Resilience strategy and sub-strategies, considering all aspects of resilience: application, infrastructure, security, data, monitoring, people & process.
• Deliver architecture and designs for central resilience services.

Essential skills/experience:

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

Desirable skills/experience:

We are building a strong Resilience Architecture team, with a blend of skills.

The candidate will have experience and expertise in some of these areas:

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

The ideal candidate:

We are looking for a committed team player, who is passionate about technology and focused on business outcomes.

• With an appetite for learning new technologies quickly, you are happy working on deep technical problems, collaborating with subject matter experts to agree solutions.
• You have a passion for technology and want to accelerate adoption of new technologies in a safe and secure way.
• You are comfortable writing and presenting designs for IT services.
• You are comfortable writing architecture strategy papers and presenting to senior managers.
• You enjoy working in a global team, valuing the cultural and professional diversity that this brings and will contribute to a high performing team by embracing new ways of working, such as DevOps & SRE.
• You inspire other architects through innovation, sharing knowledge and are keen to mentor and help your colleagues to grow in all aspects of their career.
• You communicate clearly and concisely, with the ability to explain complex technical problems in a simple way to a wide range of stakeholders.
• You are comfortable professionally challenging the assumptions and ideas of others, even senior management, to ensure the best outcomes are achieved.
• You bring an engineering mind-set to designing solutions, helping to achieve operational scale as well as system reliability.