Data Specialist

• Design, engineer, implement and continually enhance enterprise backup, recovery, cyber recovery, and data protection services aligned to enterprise architecture, cyber resilience objectives, and regulatory requirements.
• Own the technical lifecycle of products, including enhancements, feature adoption and lifecycle planning.
• Develop and maintain automation capabilities, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and reusable engineering patterns to improve consistency, efficiency, and scalability.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and product capabilities to strengthen cyber recovery, immutability, ransomware resilience, and service automation.
• Partner with Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and application teams to embed backup and data protection requirements into new platform and service designs.
• Update and maintain engineering standards, design principles, reference architectures, and guidelines for technologies.
• Lead or contribute to strategic initiatives including cloud transformation, datacentre migration, platform modernisation, and resilience improvement programmes.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, implementation standards, operational readiness requirements, and knowledge transfer materials to support sustainable service delivery.
• Perform proof-of-concept activities, engineering validation, resilience testing, and recovery testing to ensure solutions meet functional and operational requirements.
• Work with product stakeholders to help shape priorities, refine technical requirements, and contribute to the engineering backlog for the service.
• Monitor vendor roadmaps, industry trends, and emerging technologies to find opportunities for service optimisation and modernisation.
• Provide expert technical support for complex issues, major incidents, and problem management activities, driving sustainable engineering outcomes.
• Collaborate with Service Management, Risk, Compliance, and Security teams to ensure engineered solutions align with governance, control, and service standards.
• Drive continuous improvement across the service, with a focus on automation, standardisation, observability, and reducing manual operational effort.
• Support strategic capacity planning, retention requirements, scalability considerations, and long-term service evolution in line with business demand.

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