AVP, Infrastructure Resilience & Disaster Recovery Leadership

Mashreq; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Mashreq Bank seeks an AVP – Infrastructure Resilience to lead technology resilience and disaster recovery programs across applications and infrastructure in the UAE. You will govern DR policies, coordinate regional drills, and drive resilience maturity while aligning with regulatory requirements and risk management objectives.

You will collaborate with technology leadership, risk, compliance, and business units to optimize end-to-end resilience, implement automation, and deliver dashboards and

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of Disaster Recovery, Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, IT Risk Management, and Regulatory Compliance within a banking or highly regulated environment.
• Proven experience in leading enterprise recovery testing, resilience governance, audit remediation, and resilience transformation initiatives.
• Strong analytical, stakeholder management, governance, and communication skills, with the ability to drive cross-functional programs and influence senior stakeholders to achieve resilience and recovery objectives.
• Proven capability in working across medium to large, globally distributed and culturally diverse engineering and infrastructure operations teams, with a strong focus on resilience governance and risk management, is essential.

Responsibilities

• Disaster Recovery Governance: Develop, maintain, and enhance DR policies, standards, procedures, and frameworks.
• DR Governance: Govern DR readiness across all applications and infrastructure platforms.
• Compliance: Ensure regulatory, internal policy, and audit requirement adherence.
• Risk: Manage DR risk assessments and track remediation of resilience gaps.
• Maturity: Drive recovery capability maturity across technology domains.
• DR Planning & Testing: Plan, coordinate, and facilitate DR drills across regions and units.
• DR Testing: Lead applications, infrastructure, database, and integrated DR testing activities.
• Metrics: Track RTOs and RPOs.
• Continuous Improvement: Validate recovery procedures and incorporate lessons learned.
• Operational Resilience: Support resilience initiatives for critical services.
• Recovery priorities: Review recovery strategies and service restoration priorities.
• Collaboration: Work with business continuity to improve end-to-end resilience.
• Monitoring: Develop resilience metrics, KPIs, and dashboards.
• Automation: Lead DR automation initiatives and tooling integration.
• Efficiency: Identify opportunities to reduce manual recovery activities.
• Innovation: Support resilience-related innovation.
• Audit & Compliance: Manage resilience audit engagements and remediation.
• Regulatory: Prepare evidence for audits and regulatory examinations.
• Submissions: Support DR regulatory submissions.
• Closure: Track audit observations and risk acceptance.
• Stakeholder Management: Engage with Technology Leadership, Application Owners, Infrastructure, Audit, and Security teams.
• Governance: Facilitate resilience forums and escalation of critical issues.
• Reporting: Present resilience metrics and executive updates.
• Accountability: Drive accountability for recovery preparedness across tech teams.
• Reporting & Communications: Develop executive dashboards and resilience reporting.
• Presentations: Prepare board-level and regulatory presentations.
• Trends: Monitor resilience trends and recommend improvements.
• Cross-Country Coordination: Coordinate across UAE and IBG locations for standardization.
• Operational Excellence: Drive process improvement, automation, and best practices.

Job description

Mashreq Bank seeks an AVP – Infrastructure Resilience to lead technology resilience and disaster recovery programs across applications and infrastructure in the UAE. You will govern DR policies, coordinate regional drills, and drive resilience maturity while aligning with regulatory requirements and risk management objectives.

You will collaborate with technology leadership, risk, compliance, and business units to optimize end-to-end resilience, implement automation, and deliver dashboards and