Lead Enterprise Architect

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 20 April 2026
LOCATION
Sheffield
TYPE
Contract
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Technology
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SKILLS

Application architecture Infrastructure / Cloud architecture Technology resilience Microservices architecture DevOps Container architecture

FULL DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Lead Enterprise Architect
Location: Sheffield (3 x days per week on site)
Salary/Rate: Up to £500 per day
Start Date: April 2026
Job Type: 8 month contract (Inside IR35)

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

- 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. - LI/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.

Required Skills/Experience

The ideal candidate will have the following:

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

Desirable Skills/Experience

Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

  • 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

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

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