Disaster Recovery​/Business Continuity Architect - FTC

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Architect

12 Month FTC

• You care deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value
• You're comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively
• You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning
• You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with clients and teammates
• You're pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused
• You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow
• You value low-ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams

Lead the design, validation, and operational readiness of disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities for the production estate during the migration to the new colocation environment. The role is responsible for ensuring that rollback, failover, backup, and recovery strategies are fully documented, tested, and compliant with financial services regulatory expectations, while minimising operational risk throughout the migration programme.

• Own the review, validation, and formal sign-off of the production rollback strategy for the tightly coupled monolithic application estate.
• Develop and maintain detailed, step-by-step rollback runbooks covering planned and emergency recovery scenarios.
• Coordinate rollback rehearsals with infrastructure, application, database, and operations teams to validate execution times and dependencies.
• Identify rollback risks, decision points, and business impacts, ensuring clear go/no-go criteria are established for production releases.

• Design and execute comprehensive disaster recovery exercises covering infrastructure, applications, databases, and supporting services.
• Validate backup integrity, restoration procedures, and end-to-end recovery processes within the new colocation environment.
• Ensure disaster recovery testing satisfies internal governance, audit requirements, and financial services regulatory expectations.
• Produce evidence packs, test reports, lessons learned, and remediation plans following each exercise.

• Review and enhance Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) for critical production services.
• Ensure business continuity processes align with operational resilience objectives and business impact assessments.
• Work with business stakeholders to validate continuity arrangements for critical services and operational teams.
• Support crisis management planning and major incident response exercises.

• Assess resilience risks across hybrid environments spanning remaining on-premises infrastructure and the new colocation platform.
• Validate resilience of shared services, including identity, networking, storage, monitoring, messaging, and database platforms.
• Ensure inter-site dependencies are understood, documented, and appropriately mitigated.
• Monitor and manage risks associated with transitional operating models during migration.

• Define, validate, and monitor Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for all in-scope services.
• Confirm infrastructure and application architectures are capable of meeting agreed recovery objectives.
• Identify gaps between current capabilities and business recovery requirements and drive remediation activities.
• Work closely with solution architects and engineering teams to optimise recovery capabilities.

• Ensure disaster recovery and business continuity documentation meets organisational governance standards.
• Support internal audit, risk management, and regulatory assurance activities.
• Maintain risk registers relating to resilience, recovery capability, and migration readiness.
• Provide formal readiness assessments and recommendations to programme governance boards prior to production cutovers.

• Proven experience designing and implementing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions within enterprise environments.
• Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure or data centre migration…