Job Description
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES AT ALL LEVELS:
Disaster Recovery Program Leadership & Governance
* Align Disaster Recovery (DR) initiatives with strategic vision, long-range plan (LRP), budgets, and organizational risk posture.
* Develop and maintain the cross organizational DR roadmap, including timelines, milestones, readiness targets, testing cycles, and capital/operating budgets.
* Translate enterprise risks, regulatory needs, and operational priorities into actionable DR initiatives and recovery strategies.
* Establish and enforce governance frameworks (roles & responsibilities, approvals & escalation, lifecycle phases, risk mitigation).
* Manage DR programs/projects across a matrixed organization, including scope, schedule, budget, resources, risk, and communication.
* Integrate DR planning with Major Incident Management, Business Continuity, Cybersecurity, Network Operations, Application and Infrastructure teams.
* Build and maintain DR standards, methodologies, playbooks, and execution practices.
* Lead tabletop exercises, functional tests, and full‑scale recovery exercises and track findings and remediation.
* Provide executive‑level reporting on readiness, risks, test outcomes, gaps, and improvements.
Program Analysis, Discovery & Continuous Improvement
* Identify opportunities to strengthen preparedness by assessing technology resilience, operational processes, organizational capabilities, and lessons learned.
* Support adaptive program management to promote continuous learning and improvement.
* Partner with business and technical teams to develop, analyze, and maintain metrics, data sets, and models supporting DR planning and readiness assessments.
* Analyze risk trends and recovery performance to guide investment and leadership decisions.
* Evaluate new technologies, architectures, and initiatives for DR and resiliency impact.
Cross‑Functional Collaboration & Advisory Support
* Build collaborative relationships across Network Operations, Application Technology, Engineering, Security, Compliance, Consumer, and executive teams.
* Collaborate on organization‑wide training programs for Disaster Recovery and Incident Response.
* Serve as a trusted advisor on DR readiness, risk posture, and response capabilities.
Vendor, Partner & Resource Management
* Manage DR‑related vendor relationships, including procurement, contracts, performance evaluation, and third‑party resiliency services.
* Ensure vendor solutions align with recovery objectives, regulatory obligations, and operational requirements.
* Coordinate with state and federal agencies during regional disasters.
* Validate DR business cases and financial assumptions to ensure effective use of capital and operating budgets.
* Support staffing and resource planning, prioritizing and managing dependencies.
* Monitor budgets, variances, and financial risks for DR initiatives.
* Evaluate completed DR initiatives for performance against scope, schedule, budget, and strategic goals.
Preferred:
* Minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible relevant experience in Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery, Project/Program Management, Engineering, and/or Information Security/Technology, or related field.
* Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity certifications
* Experience with disaster recovery testing, incident response, or compliance environments.
* UK public sector critical infrastructure experience.