Resilience Architect

About Airwalk Reply:

Airwalk Reply is the Reply Group company specialised in the design and delivery of cloud-based services and solutions, driving technology-led transformational change in complex, regulated industries such as Financial Services, Government and the Public Sector. We bring a unique combination of deep technical subject matter expertise across technology strategy, architecture, service design, engineering and security, alongside business domain expertise and a heavyweight delivery capability. www.airwalkreply.com

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Resilience Architect to join our consulting practice, supporting clients in designing, assessing and enhancing their resilience capabilities. This is a client-facing role requiring a blend of technical depth, regulatory awareness and strong advisory skills. You will work with senior stakeholders to shape resilience strategies, uplift capabilities and embed best practices across complex organisations.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a trusted advisor on enterprise resilience strategy, frameworks, and best practices
• Champion and evangelise resilience across client organisations and within the consulting practice, influencing technical and business stakeholders
• Conduct current-state assessments of infrastructure and organisational resilience capabilities
• Define and deliver resilience uplift programmes, including roadmap development and prioritisation
• Provide expertise in infrastructure resilience controls, cloud resilience design (AWS/Azure), and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR)
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with client teams across technology, operations, and business functions
• Analyse complex environments across technology, processes, and people, translating findings into clear recommendations
• Produce high-quality deliverables, communicate with senior and regulatory stakeholders, and support sales, proposals, and thought leadership

About the Candidate:

• Strong consulting mindset with experience delivering in client-facing roles
• Recognised expertise in enterprise, operational, or infrastructure resilience
• Proven experience assessing and improving resilience controls across infrastructure environments
• Hands-on experience with Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) frameworks, testing, and execution
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure), including resilience design considerations, and enterprise backup and recovery toolsets
• Understanding of enterprise architecture and/or business process design within infrastructure or hosting domains
• Ability to navigate complex and ambiguous problems, work across multiple stakeholders and competing priorities, and translate technical detail into business-focused insights, supported by strong communication and storytelling skills
• Experience within Financial Services, including Operational Resilience programmes, Important Business Services (IBS), Impact Tolerances (ITOL), and regulatory engagement, as well as prior experience in a consultancy or advisory firm, would be beneficial
• AWS certification or demonstrable deep platform knowledge, along with working knowledge of networking fundamentals, incident management frameworks (e.g. ITIL), and observability and monitoring tooling, would be 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.