Connect to your skills and professional experience

The following are the core skills and experience required to be successful in this role:

• Demonstrable experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid architectures across one or more major providers (Azure preferred), including on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud patterns.
• Deep expertise in cyber resilience and recovery architecture — for example isolated recovery environments / clean rooms, immutable and air-gapped backups, backup and recovery design, cyber recovery testing, recovery assurance, and meeting demanding RTO/RPO targets for critical workloads.
• Experience designing for and recovering from destructive cyber events — ransomware and malware containment, resilient restoration, and business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) for critical services.
• A track record of developing and owning reference architectures, blueprints, patterns and target operating designs, and of setting architectural standards and design governance and technology risk controls adherence.
• Experience working in or with one of the Financial Services sector, the Energy, Resources and Industrials sector showing an understanding of the regulatory and control environment.
• A strong understanding of how operational resilience regulation shapes design — important business services and impact tolerances (e.g. FCA/PRA/Bank of England), DORA, third-party and concentration risk, and resilience testing expectations.
• Proven ability to operate as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders — shaping strategy, building the business case and articulating an authoritative point of view on resilience and recovery.
• Equally strong delivery credentials — leading architecture on complex engagements or programmes end to end, balancing business requirements against security, cost, operability and risk.
• Experience of the consulting or advisory model, or a comparable client-facing environment, with the commercial awareness to contribute to bids, proposals and practice growth.
• Excellent communication skills, able to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and executive, non-technical audiences, and to present to architecture boards or design authorities.
• A demonstrable appetite for building external eminence — thought leadership, published points of view, or speaking — or clear potential and ambition to do so.
• Deep understanding of cloud security and resilience-by-design principles, including Zero Trust, identity security, privileged access management and secure landing zone architectures.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise resilience and recovery technologies such as Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Microsoft Defender or equivalent platforms.

The following will be desirable skills:

• Recognised certifications — for example professional-level cloud architect credentials in Azure, security certifications, and architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
• Hands-on familiarity with cyber recovery and immutable-storage technologies and isolated-recovery / cyber-vault solutions across cloud and on-premises platforms.
• Experience of resilience and recovery testing, scenario-based severe-but-plausible testing, and automated restore-and-validate pipelines.
• Knowledge of incident response and crisis management, and how architecture supports containment, forensics and coordinated recovery.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust, secure-by-design principles and cloud-native security and networking controls.
• Awareness of multi-cloud and hybrid patterns and the trade-offs of resilience, portability and provider concentration risk, including on-premises fallback for critical services.
• Knowledge of relevant security and resilience standards (e.g. ISO 27001, ISO 22301, NIST CSF) as applied in regulated financial environments.
• Experience mentoring and growing architecture teams, and contributing to reusable assets, accelerators and intellectual property.

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You’ll be based in one of our UK offices with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

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Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace