Technology Platforms & Architecture Lead Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Technology Platforms & Architecture Lead Enterprise Architect
Location: Sheffield
Salary/Rate: £586 a day Inside IR35
Start Date: Immediate
Job Type: Contract 9 Months Length

Company Introduction
"We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our Leading Banking clients! They are one of the biggest financial institutions in the world and are currently looking for a skilled Technology Platforms & Architecture Lead Enterprise Architect to join their team for a Nine-month contract.")

The ideal candidate is passionate about technology resilience, with knowledge of how the ways that a service is designed, built, and run contribute to overall resilience. They will work on the big global resilience initiatives within our client and play a key role in uplifting the quality and availability of service for our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Resilience Deep Dive process and management implementation into ServiceNow Continual Improvement Management (CIM).
• Resilience Improvements process and management implementation into ServiceNow Continual Improvement Management (CIM).
• Resilience Vulnerability data investigations.
• Design of the migration from home grown Technology Vulnerability management to ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management (IRM).
• Strategic initiatives on Double Failure Resilience and Mass DR scenarios.
• Recovery Time Objective redefinition and embedding within the organisation.
• SLI/SLO/Error Budgets and Availability Management approach and strategy for the organisation.
• Contribute to the Technology Resilience strategy and sub-strategies, considering all aspects of resilience: application, infrastructure, security, data, observability, operations and culture.
• Collaborate with Technology teams on building best practice resilience design patterns and solutions, for re-use.
• Build strong feedback loops from production incident data to the best practice for designing, engineering and running Technology services.
• Help to grow resilience skills within Technology teams.
• Contribute to architecture and designs for central resilience services and tooling to enable resilience activity visibility.
• Lead the thinking on approaches to improve resilience and how resilience gaps should be catered for within the organisation.

Essential skills / experience:

• Senior engineer / 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 Technology 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
• Implementation of SLOs, SLIs and Error Budgets
• Observability (Logging, Monitoring, Telemetry, Metrics)
• Chaos Engineering
• FMEA / Scenario testing
• Strategy author
• Banking experience
• Global organisation experience
• Data analysis / AI on large data sets, drawing conclusions and insights.
• IT Service Management

Additionally, knowledge of the ServiceNow platform would be very beneficial, especially the Continual Improvement Management (CIM) and Integrated Risk Management (IRM) modules.

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 experience working in an area of technology resilience and / or service availability.
• You have a passion for technology resilience and want to accelerate adoption of new resilience techniques in a safe and secure way.
• 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.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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