Senior Business Continuity Specialist

Role Overview

• Collaborate with business and IT teams to develop technical recovery strategies for applications and infrastructure to achieve resilience in accordance with FFIEC guidelines
• Consult and provide guidance to application teams, infrastructure teams, and architects to align current and future technologies with enterprise resilience controls, standards, and strategies
• Collaborate and consult with business and IT teams on development of business continuity plans, technical recovery plans and other enterprise resilience documentation
• Review and evaluate plans against standards for quality, provide feedback for operational improvement and alignment with standards
• Collaborate with peers, information security, and first line of defense in the review and development of standards and recommendations for policies to meet FFIEC guidelines and enterprise resilience objectives
• Support development and delivery of monthly Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and measures related to technical recovery, business continuity, and enterprise resilience
• Develop and deliver awareness and training programs (including online training content) to staff on technical recovery, business continuity, and enterprise resilience topics
• Support annual technical recovery and business continuity testing and test documentation
• Collaborate with business partners and IT on the annual business impact analysis (BIA) process and risk analysis
• Collaborate with information security team and first line of defense on key risk indicators, tracking of risks and gaps, and risk analysis
• Support responses to customer requests, audits, and maintenance of documents related to enterprise resilience
• This role has an on-call component and will potentially require colleague to participate in a 7/24/365 on-call or shift rotation(s) which could include occasional working weekends, off hours, and holidays

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of related experience in Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Resilience Programs, or related disciplines
• Knowledge of cloud and on-premises disaster recovery, ransomware, and business resumption technologies, processes and practices
• Ability to work under stressful conditions, such as tight time deadlines and business-related crises
• Ability to negotiate win-win agreements with stakeholders in complex situations
• Agile project management knowledge and experience
• Certification as a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) or Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI)
• Experience developing online training content
• Master's Degree

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• health insurance coverage
• wellness program
• life and disability insurance
• retirement savings plan
• paid leave programs
• paid holidays
• paid time off (PTO)