Director, Disaster Recovery & Business Resiliency

Boston MA 02116, hybrid 3 days onsite

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Ownership, governance, and continual improvement 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

Develop and execute 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

Partner with IT and business stakeholders to evangelize and drive resilient application architecture design, particularly in cloud native/modern systems

Ensue that the organization can monitor and manage threats and risks to availability, respond, recover, and restore effectively in line with corporate priorities

Conduct 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

Facilitate 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

Ownership of the Firm’s Emergency Notification System and procedures

Coordination and ownership of the IT due diligence process and tools, in partnership with the Firm’s Investor Relations function

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field

10+ years of experience in disaster recovery, operational risk, resiliency, crisis management, business continuity

Expertise in Business Resiliency requirements, setting and measuring Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), Business Continuity planning and development of Business Impact Analysis documentation

Able to effectively influence across multiple teams, leaders, organizations, and/or the enterprise

Business knowledge and partnership: Able 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 (AWS, Azure, GCP) a plus

Proactive, motivated, and a collaborative team player

Demonstrated ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities

Strong critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills