Lead Enterprise Architect
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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.