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Xcede

Solutions Architect

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

£ 87 /hour

Freelance

16-02-2026

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Skills

Leadership ServiceNow CI/CD DevOps Monitoring Architecture Enterprise Architecture Infrastructure as Code Microservices

Job Specifications

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.

About the Company

Global Technology Recruitment Specialists. We source and select top talent across all technology sectors globally. Founded in 2003, our vertical specialists provide global transformational talent in data, AI & machine learning, product, software, cloud and cyber. As part of the Xcede Group, we work with businesses, from pioneering start-ups to global brands, to find project-based or permanent talent that enables innovation in line with their vision and goals. Know more