Data Resilience Technology Specialist

Location: Birmingham (Hybrid, at least 40% or two days per week in the office)
Salary: £81,999 to £91,110 plus bonus and benefits
Hours: Full time
Team: Chief Data and Analytics Office, Data Resilience

The role

Help safeguard critical data services used by customers, colleagues and markets. You will design, implement and run data resilience across on-prem and cloud, delivering the intent of PRA SS1/21, FCA PS21/3 and DORA.

What you will do

• Design, implement and maintain infrastructure resilience across on-prem and cloud.
• Define hosting and recovery strategies for critical platforms and services.
• Evaluate architectures against RTO, RPO, cost and performance.
• Develop and automate recovery runbooks for infrastructure and applications.
• Orchestrate restore workflows, integrity checks and cutover processes.
• Lead disaster recovery drills with Network, Infrastructure, Platform and Data teams.
• Capture findings and drive remediation to strengthen resilience.
• Protect core platforms such as databases, messaging, batch schedulers and file or object stores.
• Standardise and optimise backup and snapshot strategies across technologies.
• Integrate with ServiceNow for Incident, Change and Problem.
• Maintain CMDB accuracy for infrastructure, backup tools, storage and networks.
• Track and report resilience metrics including backup success, recovery success, RPO and MTTR.
• Present performance and risk reduction to senior leadership.
• Ensure compliance with resilience standards and regulatory requirements.
• Feed outcomes into Data Resilience Assessments.

What you will need

• Hands-on delivery of infrastructure solutions for resilience and recovery.
• Cloud and on-prem expertise across compute, storage, networking, segmentation and connectivity.
• Proven disaster recovery experience including automated restore, rebuild and cutover.
• Backup and recovery for databases, messaging queues, batch jobs and large-scale data stores.
• Experience running end-to-end disaster recovery drills with audit trails and RTO or RPO compliance.
• Strong ITIL knowledge for Major Incident, Problem and Change leadership.
• ServiceNow skills including CMDB modelling, Discovery, Flow Designer and workflow automation.
• Security-first mindset including encryption, key rotation, secrets management and dual control.
• Automation skills in PowerShell, Python, Terraform or similar.
• Stakeholder engagement across CISO, Platforms, Networks, DBAs and Risk.
• Regulatory awareness of PRA SS1/21, FCA PS21/3 and DORA, with practical IBS and impact tolerance.

Benefits

• Pension contribution up to 15 percent.
• Annual bonus scheme and share plans.
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Flexible benefits and wellbeing support.
• Inclusive culture with reasonable adjustments available during recruitment.

Apply now to do meaningful work that strengthens resilience for services used by millions.

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