Resilience Architect

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.airwalk.reply.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