Enterprise Architect Tech Resilience in banking domain

We have an urgent requirement for Enterprise Architect – Tech Resilience in banking domain (Must) is required for our banking clients in Abu Dhabi ,UAE

Strong Experience in  Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Infrastructure Architecture.--Must

Focused on Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, High Availability, and Technology Resilience.--MustExperience designing enterprise-scale resilience solutions for critical environments.--MustProven expertise in financial services, banking, or highly regulated environments --MustStrong understanding of application, infrastructure, cloud, network, storage, database, and integration architectures.--Must


Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical architecture support for the definition and evolution of the enterprise resilience and failover architecture.


• Assess the current resilience and failover architecture across relevant applications, platforms, infrastructure and dependencies.


• Identify architectural bottlenecks, single points of failure, recovery constraints and cross-site dependency risks.


• Develop target-state resilience and failover architecture options aligned with rapid recovery objectives.


• Evaluate technical options and trade-offs covering availability, recoverability, operability, complexity, cost and implementation risk.


• Work with Enterprise Architecture, Technology Platforms, DR/Operations, Cyber Security and application owners to validate architecture assumptions and requirements.

Required Skills:

• Strong architecture experience in enterprise resilience, disaster recovery, high availability and failover design.


• Knowledge of active-active, active-passive, multi-site and multi-region architecture patterns.


• Ability to assess end-to-end application, infrastructure, network, data, integration and cloud dependencies.


• Experience defining RTO/RPO-aligned architecture and analysing recovery failure modes.


• Strong stakeholder facilitation, technical option  assessment and architecture documentation skills.


• Experience in regulated financial services or similarly critical environments is strongly preferred.


• Key Deliverables


• Current-state resilience and failover architecture assessment.


• Documented architecture risks, bottlenecks, dependency gaps and prioritized remediation considerations.


• Target-state resilience and failover architecture covering applications, platforms, infrastructure and critical technology dependencies.


• Technical options paper with trade-offs, recommendation and implementation dependencies.


• Architecture roadmap and transition considerations for the agreed target state.


• Governance-ready architecture pack, architecture decisions and recommendations supporting target-state approval and implementation planning.

Certifications:Preferred: TOGAF certification and relevant cloud architecture certification such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert. Business continuity or resilience certification such as CBCI is advantageous
Preferred Tech Stack:
Hybrid infrastructure; cloud platforms; virtualization; container platforms; databases; storage and replication; network and load-balancing technologies; enterprise integration and observability capabilities.
Tools / Platforms:
ServiceNow CMDB; Jira; Confluence; Microsoft 365.