Skills

Data Analysis Risk Management ServiceNow CI/CD DevOps Monitoring Strategic thinking Architecture Cloud Architecture Application Architecture CI/CD Pipelines Chaos Engineering Infrastructure as Code Microservices

Job Specifications

Job Title: Contract Technology Resilience Enterprise Architect

Location: Sheffield (Hybrid Working)

Duration: 10 Month initial contract

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Sector: Financial Services

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.

Essential Skills & Experience

Senior Engineer and/or Architect with experience across one or more of:
Application Architecture
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.

Desirable Skills & Experience

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:

Application architecture
Infrastructure / Cloud architecture
Microservices architecture
DevOps practices
Container architecture
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
CI/CD pipelines & Automated Testing
SRE / Production Support
SLOs, SLIs and Error Budgets
Observability (Logging, Monitoring, Telemetry, Metrics)
Chaos Engineering
FMEA / Scenario testing
Strategy development & authorship
Banking / Financial Services experience
Experience in global organisations
Data analysis / AI on large datasets
IT Service Management

Highly desirable:

Knowledge of the ServiceNow platform, particularly:
Continual Improvement Management (CIM)
Integrated Risk Management (IRM)

About the Company

At Vanloq, we believe people are the cornerstone of every successful organisation. As a global workforce solutions provider, our mission is to drive technological innovation by connecting exceptional tech talent with forward-thinking companies around the world. We go beyond traditional recruitment, positioning ourselves as a strategic partner in workforce transformation. Our vision is to redefine how businesses operate and how talent engages with work, using deep industry insight and forward-looking strategies. With a glob... Know more