Head of Technology Resilience and Product Operations

Director, Head of Technology Resilience and Production Operations
London (Hybrid) | Banking Sector
up to £140,000 + Bonus + Benefits

Are you ready to shape the resilience strategy of a global financial institution and make your voice heard at the top table?

This is a rare opportunity to lead Technology Resilience and Production Operations for a major international financial services organisation, building an Enterprise Centre of Excellence that protects service stability, strengthens regulatory confidence, and safeguards the customer experience across a global business. You'll sit within the senior leadership team, own a multi-million-pound platform strategy, and lead a team of around 25 through a period of genuine transformation.

What you'll be doing:

Own and execute the Technology Resilience and Production Operations strategy, including Incident, Problem, Event and Change Management, driving automation and an agile approach to improve stability, security and speed at scale
Build and govern an internationalised Centre of Excellence platform, delivering high-quality MI, dashboards and executive-level reporting on KPIs, SLAs and risk
Design and manage the Technology Resilience framework, including business impact analysis, Disaster Recovery exercises (cyber-attack, ransomware, infrastructure failure scenarios) and Business Continuity Plans
Lead major incident response and postmortem/root cause processes, driving a culture that reduces repeat incidents and strengthens proactive problem management
Own the Change Advisory Board and release orchestration strategy, ensuring changes are authorised, risk-assessed and compliant across complex deployment pipelines
Manage budget, licensing and vendor relationships, and lead, develop and grow your team while embedding a strong risk and compliance culture
Interpret regulatory requirements (including DORA) and translate them into business-aligned resilience and security controlsWhat you'll bring:

Extensive, proven experience setting and executing enterprise-wide resilience strategy, with strong knowledge of IT/Operational/Cloud Resilience, critical service mapping and impact tolerances
A strong track record leading Incident, Problem, Event and Change Management functions in a regulated financial services environment, including Priority 1 outage management and root cause investigation
Proven experience managing audits, regulatory reviews and resilience testing, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders across CIO, Risk, Compliance and Audit
Solid experience across infrastructure and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Oracle), with advanced ServiceNow proficiency for incident and problem tracking
Strong analytical, decision-making and communication skills, with the ability to lead confidently and calmly under pressure
Desirable: ITIL 4, ITSM tooling (ServiceNow, Jira Service Management), ISO22301/ISO20000, CBCP/MBCI certification, SRE familiarity, or experience with tools such as Splunk, CyberArk PAM, or GenAI-driven service managementReady to take on a role where your leadership genuinely shapes resilience at scale? Apply now to find out more.

If you've held any of these roles or used these technologies/skills, this role could be a great fit: Head of Technology Resilience, Director of IT Service Continuity, Head of Production Operations, Head of IT Service Management, Director of Incident and Problem Management, Head of Change and Release Management, Business Continuity Director, Head of Operational Resilience, IT Service Continuity Manager, Head of DevOps/SRE Operations, ServiceNow, ITIL 4, ISO22301, DORA compliance, Disaster Recovery, AWS/Azure/Oracle Cloud, CBCP, MBCI.

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