Selby Jennings has partnered with Boston's leading Investment and PE firm on a confidential search for a new Director of Disaster Recovery & Business Resiliency to join their IT team and report to their Head of IT and Cloud Infrastructure.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field
- 10 YOE in disaster recovery, operational risk, resiliency, crisis management, business continuity
- Expertise in Business Resiliency requirements, setting and measuring RPO, RTO, Business Continuity planning and development of Business Impact Analysis documentation
- Ability to effectively influence across multiple teams, leaders, organizations, and/or the enterprise
- Ability to translate continuity and resiliency terminology, posture, standing, and risks to stakeholders and regulators
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage multiple complex projects simultaneously
- Technical certifications or previous technical experience with cloud providers is a plus
Responsibilities:
- Owning, governing, and continuous improveming of the firm's Business Continuity Planning program
- Developing and executing the overall strategy and program related to disaster recovery procedures and controls, enabling technology business continuity, sound disaster recovery practices, and ensuring the Firm can resume full operations in the event of a crisis or disaster
- Developing and executing annual disaster recovery plans; assess and improve the disaster recovery program by evaluating governance models, risks to technology services, and disaster recovery processes and procedures
- Collaborating with IT and business stakeholders to evangelize and drive resilient application architecture design, particularly in cloud native/modern systems
- Ensuring that the organization can monitor and manage threats and risks to availability, respond, recover, and restore effectively in line with corporate priorities
- Conducting Business Impact Analysis to assess recovery requirements verses recovery capabilities and develop strategies to mitigate significant gaps; provide guidance and support to the business in the development and documentation of risk, issue, and control descriptions and remediation plans
- Facilitating After Action Reviews following an incident or exercise to assess the response effort, identify lessons learned to be incorporated in the plans, enhance response capabilities and report findings and recommendations to the appropriate business team
- Owning of the Firm's Emergency Notification System and procedures
- Coordinating and owning the IT due diligence process and tools, in partnership with the Firm's Investor Relations function
