Job Specifications
Data Resilience Engineering Lead (Contract)
Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.
Locations: London | Birmingham | Edinburgh | Bristol | Manchester
On-site: 2 days per week
Duration: 6 months
Rate: Competitive - via umbrella companyThe Role
Join a major UK financial services organisation and help drive its enterprise data resilience agenda. You'll ensure critical data assets are secure, available, and recoverable within regulatory tolerances, working across a large, complex technology landscape.
This role blends hands-on technical expertise with senior stakeholder influence in a highly regulated environment.Key Responsibilities
Lead data resilience initiatives across on-prem, cloud, and third-party environments.
Design and embed resilience controls across data flows, middleware, APIs, messaging, and batch processes.
Perform data resilience assessments and identify risks across availability, integrity, and security.
Build end-to-end data lineage using tools such as Ins-Pi and ServiceNow.
Present findings and influence remediation through senior governance forums.
Skills & Experience
Essential
Strong experience in data resilience, backup/recovery, encryption, messaging, batch processing, and cloud technologies.
Banking or insurance background with knowledge of critical services (eg payments, cards, pensions).
Understanding of FCA, PRA, and EBA operational resilience expectations.
Risk, control, and enterprise architecture experience.
Desirable
Hybrid cloud resilience and disaster recovery experience.
Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered please click the"apply"button.
We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.
Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly
About the Company
Since 2005, Pontoon Sports has focused on developing technically innovative apparel for a range of sports. We don't buy off-the-shelf garments and re-brands them we develop garments from scratch. Concentrating on providing the highest level of functionality that will deliver the greatest success to the user. Starting off in rowing clothing we work in the custom team-wear space and supply large institutions such as universities, schools, and teams with specifically branded apparel.
Our focus is on stretch garments that requi...
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