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Role Title: Resilience Delivery Lead (Architecture)
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Manchester or Glasgow (3 Days Per Week)
Rate: £550 Per Day - Umbrella only

Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation?

Our client is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms.

Role purpose / summary

This role is designed for a strategic thinker and delivery expert who can bridge business architecture with operational resilience. The Resilience Delivery Lead will be responsible for shaping and optimising the end-to-end lifecycle of resilience processes-from Business Service Response Plans (BSRPs) through to self-assessments. The ideal candidate will bring deep experience in financial services, with a strong grasp of how resilience frameworks integrate with business operations and risk management.

End-to-End Resilience Process Design:
Lead the design and continuous improvement of the full resilience lifecycle, including BSRP creation, invocation, monitoring, and exit, as well as integration with self-assessment cycles.
Business Architecture Alignment:
Map resilience processes to business capabilities, ensuring that resilience is embedded into the operating model and aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
Process Simplification & Automation:
Identify opportunities to streamline and automate resilience processes, reducing manual effort while improving accuracy, traceability, and usability.
Governance & Integration:
Ensure that resilience processes are aligned with broader risk and control frameworks, including regulatory expectations and internal audit requirements.
Stakeholder Engagement:
Collaborate with business service owners, risk leads, and technical SMEs to ensure resilience processes are practical, scalable, and embedded in BAU and crisis operations.
Continuous Improvement:
Use feedback from real-world resilience events and exercises to refine processes and improve readiness across the organisation.
Required Skills & Experience:

Proven experience in operational resilience, business architecture, or risk management within financial services.
Deep understanding of BSRPs, self-assessments, and their role in regulatory and operational resilience frameworks.
Strong process design and optimisation skills, with a track record of simplifying complex workflows.
Ability to work across business and technical domains, translating resilience needs into actionable architecture and delivery plans.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply