Technical Resilience Architect

About Reply:

Reply specialises in designing and implementing solutions based on new communication channels and digital media. Structured as a network of highly specialised companies, Reply supports leading European industrial groups in sectors such as Telco & Media, Industry and Services, Banking and Insurance, and Public Administration, helping define and develop business models enabled by new paradigms such as AI, Cloud Computing, Digital Media, and the Internet of Things. Reply’s services include Consulting, System Integration, and Digital Services.

Role Overview:

We are looking for an experienced Technical Resilience Architect to join our consulting practice, supporting clients in designing, engineering and hardening resilient technology environments. This role is grounded in deep technical capability across multi-cloud architecture combined with the client-facing skills needed to act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders.

You will lead the design of resilient, secure and scalable architectures, define technical recovery strategies and guide clients in assessing and uplifting their resilience posture

Responsibilities:

• Design and lead resilient enterprise architecture across multi-cloud environments ensuring secure, scalable and highly available environment design
  • Lead technical recovery planning and execution for scenarios including ransomware recovery and cyber incident recovery playbooks
  • Lead resilient architecture design and assessments, defining controls and recommending technical and operational solutions to close resilience gaps
  • Define and deliver resilience uplift programmes, including technical roadmap development, architecture remediation and prioritisation
  • Define technical, non-functional, security and operational requirements in collaboration with client engineering and architecture teams
  • Lead development of technology blueprints and transition architectures across all IT domains, supporting large-scale resilience and infrastructure transformation
  • Provide expertise across infrastructure resilience controls, cloud resilience design, and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR)
  • Facilitate technical workshops and working sessions with client engineering, operations and architecture teams
  • Advise senior programme stakeholders on technical risk and trade-offs, translating complex engineering issues into clear business decisions
  • Produce high-quality technical deliverables (architecture designs, recovery playbooks, blueprints, and executive briefings)
  • Communicate effectively with senior leadership, risk and regulatory stakeholders on technical resilience posture
  • Contribute to bids and proposals, bringing technical credibility and real-world delivery insight
  • Champion technical resilience best practices across client organisations and internally within the consulting practice

About the Candidate:

• Strong technical architecture background with hands-on experience designing resilient, secure and scalable multi-cloud environments (AWS and/or Azure)
  • Demonstrable experience leading technical cyber recovery capability, including ransomware recovery, isolated recovery environments and immutable backup design
  • Understanding of infrastructure as code concepts (e.g. Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK) and configuration management principles, with exposure to CI/CD and cloud automation tooling (e.g. AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
  • Understanding of the current vendor marketplace for resilience and recovery solutions, including recovery orchestration platforms, vaulting/cyber vault providers, and backup and recovery toolsets.
  • Hands-on experience with BCP and DR frameworks, testing, and execution
  • Understanding of enterprise architecture and business process design within infrastructure or hosting domains
  • Ability to lead architecture assessments, define controls, and recommend practical technical solutions
  • Ability to: navigate and structure complex, ambiguous technical problems; work across multiple stakeholders and competing priorities; translate technical detail into clear, business-focused insights
  • Strong communication and storytelling skills, particularly for senior and non-technical audiences
  • Comprehensive understanding of UK and EU financial services resilience regulations, including PRA/FCA Operational Resilience requirements, CMORG guidance, DORA, and oversight of critical third parties.

Desirable

• Experience within Financial Services, including: Important Business Services (IBS); Impact Tolerances (ITOL); DORA, PRA/FCA Operational Resilience, CMORG, and CTP oversight
  • Multi-cloud certification (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP)
  • Experience working in a client-facing consulting role is highly advantageous

Reply is an Equal Opportunities Employer and committed to embracing diversity in the workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, identity, pregnancy, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, medical history, skin colour, marital status or parental status or any other characteristic protected by the Law.

Reply is committed to making sure that our selection methods are fair to everyone. To help you during the recruitment process, please let us know of any Reasonable Adjustments you may need.