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We understand our business needs and provide specialist advice and knowledge to mitigate risk and maximise success. We are exemplar and act with integrity in a challenging but rewarding environment. We are seeking someone with passion, skills and experience to help our Platform Recovery team strengthen our ability to recover technology services. The Opportunity Reporting to the Enterprise Product Manager in the Enterprise Platform team, the Platform Recovery Lead will play a key role ensuring our technology services are resilient, recoverable and capable of withstanding disruptions. Our Platform Recovery practise shapes and drives our digital recovery strategy across complex platforms, cloud environments, and critical business services. The team collaborates closely with colleagues in engineering, security, service management, business units and product teams to coordinate recovery activities and improve enterprise-wide readiness. If you are enthusiastic about resilience and want to make a difference to our organisational stability and performance, this is an exciting opportunity to take a leading role in strengthening our digital future. This is hybrid working role, that balances time at home and on site to support collaboration and delivery. There will therefore be occasional travel to our offices within the UK. Who You Are To be successful in this role youll be detailoriented with strong analytical skills and the ability to analyse technical information to translate into structured recovery documentation. Youll have proven experience of IT disaster recovery, digital recovery, operational resilience, or IT service continuity. Hands-on experience with operational resilience frameworks, impact tolerance setting and scenario testing. Familiarity with on-premise and cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), infrastructure resilience patterns and enterprise architecture principles. Ability to lead cross-functional response activities and influence senior stakeholders. Ideally, youll have certifications such as ITIL, ISO 22301, CISSP, CISM, or Cloud Architecture qualifications. Working collaboratively with the wider Enterprise Platform team and business colleagues to create a great place to work. Youre committed to health, safety, wellbeing and the environment, and carry out your role in a manner that enables us to be a sustainable business financially, environmentally and socially. To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Clearance (SC), which will ordinarily require you to have British residency for the last five years. 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