Resilience Lead presso Allica Bank

About Allica Bank

Allica is the UK’s fastest growing company - and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.

Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.

Department Description

Security is woven into every part of Allica. We’re not just here to protect the business, we’re here to enable it to grow safely and confidently. Our work touches every team and every customer, whether that’s keeping payments flowing, data safe or our people equipped with the tools and knowledge to stay secure. We enjoy a mix of pace and purpose. In many banks, security can feel like a blocker – here, it’s a partner.

At Allica, we’re building security for a modern bank, cloud-native, intelligence led and transparent. That means our people have the freedom to shape how security looks, experiment with new approaches, technology and see their impact almost immediately.

Role Description

Allica Bank is looking for an Resilience Lead who will be responsible for shaping, coordinating and advancing the banks disaster recovery capabilities, ensuring critical systems and processes remain resilient and aligned to the business needs.

You will work closely with IT SME’s and business stakeholders, providing both technical and strategic direction. The role will involve leading the development of business impact analysis, disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, policies, plans, working with auditors and regulators, and driving maturity of disaster recovery practices across the organisation. You will also play a key role in aligning with the wider operational resilience objectives within the Bank.

Principal Accountabilities

· Own and drive the development of the bank’s Disaster Recovery framework, ensuring policies, standards and practices are comprehensive, current and embedded across teams.

· Lead the design and execution of disaster recovery strategies for critical IT systems, with a focus on cloud-hosted environments.

· Coordinate and run disaster recovery testing exercises, ensuring results are captured, analysed and used to continually raise maturity

· Oversee the documentation of systems and runbooks, ensuring they are accurate, risk-aligned and easy to follow in practice.

· Act as primary contact for internal & external auditors and regulators on matters relating to disaster recovery, ensuring Allica demonstrates compliance and best practice

· Monitor the effectiveness of DR practices, identifying gaps and leading remediation activities

· Support cross-functional initiatives with Security, Risk, Compliance and business units to embed resilience principles into change and project delivery.

· Champion a culture of resilience, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across the bank.

Personal Attributes & Experience

· Proven expertise in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity disciplines with hands on experience conducting business impact analysis and designing and implementing DR solutions in complex IT environments. (Azure experience preferred)

· Proactive and delivery focused, able to balance strategic vision with practical execution. Someone who takes ownership and gets things done

· Strong communicator with the ability to build trusted relationships quickly across the business.

· Confident in engaging auditors and regulators and able to represent the bank with credibility and clarity.

· Demonstrated ability to work independently, prioritise effectively and drive initiatives to completion.

· Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with DR, BCP and operational resilience best practices, methodologies and trends.

Working at Allica Bank

At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers.

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind:

• Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities

• Options for flexible working

• Regular social activities

• Pension contributions

• Discretionary bonus scheme

• Private health cover

• Life assurance

• Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave

Don’t tick every box?

Don’t worry if you don’t have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. If you think you’ll be a good fit, we’d still love to hear from you!

Flexible working

We know the ‘9-to-5’ isn’t right for everyone. That’s why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and, if we can, we will do our best to accommodate.

Diversity

We’re a diverse bunch here at Allica, with all kinds of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. Our openness and differences make us stronger, and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with them as they like.