Associate Director, Microsoft Cloud Architect, Cyber Resilience and Recovery

Overview

In this role you design and lead cyber resilience and recovery architectures for large, cloud-enabled environments. You’ll partner with senior clients and cross-functional teams to embed resilient, recoverable controls across on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud setups. You’ll balance cloud-first strategies with regulatory obligations, proving recoverability through testing and scenarios. You will also build Deloitte’s external eminence via thought leadership and mentoring, shaping the practice’s capabilities.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working policy
• career development opportunities
• wellbeing focus
• return-to-work support
• flexible engagement with clients
• inclusion and belonging culture

Responsibilities

• Define cyber resilience and recovery reference architectures for on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud environments
• Design resilient recovery capabilities (isolated environments, immutable backups, rapid restoration) meeting strict RTO/RPO targets
• Act as trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, translating services and tolerances into actionable architectures and roadmaps
• Lead architecture workstreams on complex engagements from strategy to delivery, ensuring quality and coherence
• Reconcile cloud-first goals with resilience, third-party risk, data protection, and regulatory demands in client designs
• Embed recovery testing, threat-led exercises, and anomaly detection to prove recoverability
• Contribute to external eminence through thought leadership and industry representation
• Mentor architects and engineers, contribute to assets and patterns, support pipeline and bids

Key requirements

• Enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid architecture design and delivery across major providers (Azure preferred)
• Deep expertise in cyber resilience and recovery architecture (recovery environments, backups, testing, RTO/RPO)
• Experience designing for and recovering from destructive cyber events (ransomware, malware, BC/DR)
• Track record of developing reference architectures, blueprints and design governance
• Experience with Financial Services sector or related regulated environments and understanding of regulatory controls
• Understanding of operational resilience regulation (FCA/PRA/BoE, DORA) and resilience testing expectations
• Trusted advisor to senior stakeholders with ability to articulate architecture and business value
• Strong delivery credentials for complex programs and client-facing engagements
• Excellent communication to technical and executive audiences
• Appetite for external eminence—thought leadership, publications, speaking engagements
• Cloud security and resilience-by-design principles (Zero Trust, IAM, secure landing zones)
• Hands-on resilience and recovery tech (Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Microsoft Defender)

• Strong communication and storytelling
• Executive-level influencing and advisory能力
• Mentoring and collaboration
• Azure Site Recovery
• Azure Backup
• Microsoft Defender

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