Head Of Enterprise Resilience Architecture & Governance

Head of Enterprise Resilience Architecture & Governance, Dublin

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Date: 19 Dec 2025

Location: Dublin, IE, IE

Company: Allied Irish Bank

Location/Office Policy: Central Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18 - 3 days in office per week

• Are you passionate about designing cyber‑resilience capabilities that protect customer trust—building architectures that can withstand advanced threats, evolving attack techniques, and the increasing regulatory expectations of frameworks like DORA?
• Do you want to shape how a major financial services organisation anticipates, absorbs, and recovers from cyber and operational disruptions, using modern resilience patterns (zero trust, high‑availability design, cloud‑native recovery, and third‑party dependency mapping) to harden critical services end‑to‑end?
• Are you driven by the challenge of turning cyber risk insight into enterprise‑level resilience outcomes leveraging service mapping, threat‑led testing, data‑driven KPIs, and engineering‑aligned governance to reduce systemic vulnerabilities and uplift organisational readiness?

What is the Role:

This senior leadership role reporting to the Chief Security and Resilience Officer, based in Dublin, shapes the future of our enterprise operational resilience and cyber‑resilience architecture. You will define how a leading financial‑services organisation anticipates, withstands, and recovers from cyber and operational disruptions. Operating at the intersection of cybersecurity, technology, and regulatory change, you’ll set the standards, patterns, and governance that protect customer trust and critical services. This is a strategic opportunity to influence resilience at scale across cloud, data, and third‑party ecosystems.

At AIB, you’ll join an organisation with a clear purpose—Empowering people to build a sustainable future—and a culture shaped by our people, where everyone is encouraged to innovate, speak up and drive progress. You’ll be part of a community that values wellbeing, inclusion and connection, supported by programmes spanning mental, physical and financial wellbeing, five Inclusion Networks, and recognition initiatives such as the annual Employee Value Awards.

We offer a flexible hybrid working model that helps colleagues balance life and work, alongside market‑leading benefits including a pension scheme, healthcare, variable pay, family leave, and two paid volunteering days each year to support the causes that matter to you.

You’ll also join a bank with a strong technology and resilience ambition—continuously investing in modern platforms, cybersecurity, digital workplace tools and engineering capability to ensure colleagues can learn, grow and deliver impact with the latest technologies

Key accountabilities:

• Design and govern the enterprise‑wide resilience architecture, integrating Operational Resilience, DORA, and cyber‑resilience requirements into a unified, modern ISMS‑aligned framework.
• Define and enforce resilience‑by‑design standards and architectural patterns for high availability, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Deliver cyber‑informed, data‑driven risk assessments aligned with MITRE ATT&CK threat modelling, DORA risk-classification requirements, and ICS/IT blended resilience assessments to inform strategic investment and trade‑off decisions.
• Establish and run a cybersecurity and technology resilience governance and performance framework that ensures disciplined oversight, clear accountability, measurable outcomes, and transparent reporting through board ready KPIs, leading indicators, and resilience performance measures.
• Build and embed a unified tribe engagement and business unit support model that ensures consistent alignment, clear ownership, and seamless collaboration between technology, product teams and business stakeholders, enabling resilient delivery and shared accountability across the enterprise.
• Oversee the organisation’s cybersecurity training and awareness programme, ensuring all colleagues, leaders and delivery teams have the knowledge, behaviours and accountability needed to strengthen resilience culture and meet regulatory expectations.

What you will bring:

• Minimum ten years in a Leadership role in information-intensive industries or digitally advanced enterprises.
• Experience in integrating cyber, technology, and operational resilience programs into a unified framework.
• Demonstrated success in building and operationalizing cross-functional intelligence and response hubs.
• Strong background in regulatory compliance (e.g., DORA, NIS2, ISO 22301, ISO 27001) and aligning governance with global standards.
• Expertise in organisational transformation, including breaking down silos and driving cultural change across complex enterprises.
• Progressive and effective leadership experience in leading cross-functional teams and enterprise-wide programs, operating and influencing effectively across the organisation and within complex contexts.
• Experience in board-level engagement, reporting, and influencing strategic decision-making.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies (AI, automation, zero-trust, quantum-safe cryptography) and their impact on resilience.
• Thought leader in financial services technology solutions, strategy, and emerging trends.
• Proven experience in leading teams to build high-performing teams that consistently and iteratively delivers high-impact, high-quality work, and cultivating innovation through creating new and agile ways for the organisation to be successful.
• The business acumen to identify business needs, evaluate emerging technology trends, determine policy implications, and advance potential solutions in cyber protection, technology deployment and infrastructure protection.
• Strong, concise, accurate, and effective written and oral communications; must be able to communicate and coordinate with individuals across all levels of a financial institution.

Why Work for AIB:

We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements.

Some of our benefits include;

• Market leading Pension Scheme
• Healthcare Scheme
• Variable Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Family leave options
• Two volunteer days per year

Please click here for further information about AIB’s PACT – Our Commitment to You.

Key Capabilities

• Enterprise Leadership: Ability to inspire, influence and align senior stakeholders, setting a clear vision and driving cross‑organisation commitment to secure and reliable operations.
• Technology Resilience Expertise: Deep capability in architecting resilient technology ecosystems, ensuring critical services can withstand, adapt to and recover from disruptions.
• Transformational Delivery: Proven track record leading large‑scale, multi‑year transformation programmes that modernise cyber and technology resilience capabilities.
• Strategic Decision‑Making: Ability to translate complex risk, threat and technology insights into pragmatic strategies, prioritised investment choices and enterprise‑level roadmaps.
• Governance & Performance Leadership: Strong capability to establish and run enterprise governance structures, embedding disciplined oversight, measurable outcomes and continuous improvement.

If you are not sure about your suitability based on any aspects of the role advertised, we encourage you to please contact the Recruiter for this role, Sarah Lyons at Sarah.X.Lyons@aib.ie for a conversation.

AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please email the Talent Acquisition team at careers@aib.ie

Disclaimer: 

Unsolicited CV’s sent to AIB by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this position. AIB operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our recruitment partners.

Application deadline: 12th January 2026

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