Solutions Architect

Technology Resilience Lead Enterprise Architect Contract – inside IR35 UK based £700 per day A global technology consultancy is seeking a senior Technology Resilience Lead Enterprise Architect to embed within a major financial services client. The programme is funded for three years, with an initial six-month contract. This is a horizontal enterprise architecture role focused on raising resilience maturity across a complex, multi-region banking estate. You will operate across application, cloud, infrastructure, data and operational domains, shaping resilience standards and influencing engineering practices at scale. Key responsibilities: • Contribute to enterprise technology resilience strategy across application, infrastructure, security, data and operations • Define and embed reusable resilience design patterns and reference architectures • Turn production incident data and failure analysis into architectural improvements • Drive adoption of SRE practices including SLOs, SLIs and error budgets • Strengthen observability standards across logging, monitoring and telemetry • Support resilience scenario testing, FMEA and controlled failure exercises • Contribute to central resilience tooling and visibility initiatives • Produce architecture and strategy papers for senior technology leadership Essential experience: • Senior engineer or enterprise architect background across cloud, application, infrastructure or data • Demonstrable expertise in technology resilience and service availability • Experience within large, regulated financial services environments • Strong understanding of DevOps and SRE operating models • Experience with CI/CD, automation and infrastructure as code • Ability to analyse incident and operational data to drive systemic improvements Desirable: • Microservices and container architecture • Observability tooling and telemetry frameworks • IT Service Management • ServiceNow exposure, particularly Continual Improvement or Integrated Risk modules • Experience operating within global organisations This role requires a technically credible architect with an engineering mindset who can challenge constructively at senior level and drive resilience uplift across distributed teams. Contract details: • Inside IR35 • £700 per day • Initial six months • Three-year funded programme • UK based • Consultancy engagement embedded within financial services client If you have deep resilience architecture experience and want to influence reliability at enterprise scale, please get in touch.