The Director of Disaster Recovery & Business Resiliency will be part of the Global IT Infrastructure organization, reporting to the Head of IT Infrastructure & Cloud Services. This position will also engage with all Information Technology teams supporting the unique business units and supporting cloud transformation programs firm wide.

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 F