Architecture & Assurance Lead (Cyber Recovery)

We are recruiting for a Architecture & Assurance Lead (Cyber Recovery) for a leading IT service provider based in Dublin. This is a hybrid role with 3 days a week on site, 2 days WFH.

We are looking for an experienced Architecture & Assurance Lead to provide independent technical leadership, governance, and assurance across a strategic Cyber Recovery programme. The successful candidate will act as a trusted advisor, ensuring all solutions, suppliers, and technologies align to deliver a resilient, end-to-end cyber recovery capability that meets business, security, and operational recovery objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, govern, and assure the target Cyber Recovery Architecture.

• Provide architecture governance and technical oversight across programme workstreams.

• Conduct solution assurance and design reviews.

• Identify technical risks, gaps, and dependencies, driving mitigation plans.

• Challenge suppliers and stakeholders to ensure best-practice recovery and resilience outcomes.

• Work closely with architecture, security, infrastructure, operations, and third-party suppliers.

• Provide executive-level reporting and architectural guidance.

Essential Experience

• Senior Enterprise, Infrastructure, Security, or Recovery Architect.

• Proven delivery of Cyber Recovery, Disaster Recovery, Resilience, or Business Continuity programmes.

• Strong architecture governance and assurance experience.

• Experience in complex multi-supplier environments.

• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

• Ability to provide independent technical leadership and challenge.

Desired Skills & Certifications

• TOGAF, CISSP, CISM, SABSA, or equivalent.

• Enterprise Architecture & Governance.

• Cyber Recovery & Operational Resilience.

• Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity (BCP).

• Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, Security Architecture.

Ideal Profile: A senior architect with strong cyber resilience and recovery expertise who can provide governance, assurance, and independent technical leadership across a business-critical programme