Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Architect

AND Digital

Disaster Recovery Architect leading disaster recovery and business continuity for enterprise environments. Designing operational strategies and ensuring compliance during colocation migration.

Posted 7/14/2026full-timeBristol • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions, with a strong focus on validating Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) within enterprise environments. Proficient in stakeholder management and documentation to ensure compliance with governance and regulatory standards.

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Disaster Recovery SolutionsBusiness Continuity PlanningRTOs and RPOs ValidationStakeholder ManagementHigh-Availability Architectures

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Hard Skills

Disaster RecoveryBusiness ContinuityRTOsRPOsHigh-Availability ArchitecturesReplication TechnologiesBackup PlatformsFailover MechanismsRisk ManagementGovernance

Soft Skills

Stakeholder ManagementDocumentationCollaborationCrisis ManagementCommunication

Tools & Technologies

Hybrid InfrastructureColocation PlatformsCloud PlatformsMonitoring ToolsDatabase Platforms

Industry Keywords

Financial ServicesOperational ResilienceAudit RequirementsMigration ReadinessProduction Cutovers

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudRTOS

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design, validation, and operational readiness of disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities for the production estate during the migration to the new colocation environment.
Own the review, validation, and formal sign-off of the production rollback strategy for the tightly coupled monolithic application estate.
Develop and maintain detailed, step-by-step rollback runbooks covering planned and emergency recovery scenarios.
Coordinate rollback rehearsals with infrastructure, application, database, and operations teams to validate execution times and dependencies.
Identify rollback risks, decision points, and business impacts, ensuring clear go/no-go criteria are established for production releases.
Design and execute comprehensive disaster recovery exercises covering infrastructure, applications, databases, and supporting services.
Validate backup integrity, restoration procedures, and end-to-end recovery processes within the new colocation environment.
Ensure disaster recovery testing satisfies internal governance, audit requirements, and financial services regulatory expectations.
Produce evidence packs, test reports, lessons learned, and remediation plans following each exercise.
Review and enhance Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) for critical production services.
Ensure business continuity processes align with operational resilience objectives and business impact assessments.
Work with business stakeholders to validate continuity arrangements for critical services and operational teams.
Support crisis management planning and major incident response exercises.
Assess resilience risks across hybrid environments spanning remaining on-premises infrastructure and the new colocation platform.
Validate resilience of shared services, including identity, networking, storage, monitoring, messaging, and database platforms.
Ensure inter-site dependencies are understood, documented, and appropriately mitigated.
Monitor and manage risks associated with transitional operating models during migration.
Define, validate, and monitor Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for all in-scope services.
Confirm infrastructure and application architectures are capable of meeting agreed recovery objectives.
Identify gaps between current capabilities and business recovery requirements and drive remediation activities.
Work closely with solution architects and engineering teams to optimise recovery capabilities.
Ensure disaster recovery and business continuity documentation meets organisational governance standards.
Support internal audit, risk management, and regulatory assurance activities.
Maintain risk registers relating to resilience, recovery capability, and migration readiness.
Provide formal readiness assessments and recommendations to programme governance boards prior to production cutovers.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience designing and implementing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions within enterprise environments.
Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure or data centre migration programmes.
Strong understanding of high-availability architectures, replication technologies, backup platforms, and failover mechanisms.
Experience defining and validating RTOs and RPOs for mission-critical services.
Knowledge of financial services operational resilience and disaster recovery expectations.
Familiarity with hybrid infrastructure environments spanning on-premises, colocation, and cloud platforms.
Strong stakeholder management skills with experience working across infrastructure, application, security, operations, and business teams.
Excellent documentation, governance, and risk management capabilities.

Benefits

Comp & perks

25 days bookable holiday + flexible Bank Holidays
Pension: 6% of salary paid by AND Digital with a further 2% paid by you (can be increased by choice).
Aviva healthcare cover (including pre-existing condition cover) for you.
Flexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you via our benefits portal to select or upgrade the benefits that suit you the most. Any unused allowance from the £1000 can be taken as cash.
Life Assurance.
Income Protection.
Eye test + first pair of glasses.
Parental Benefits: Generous Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave.