Business Continuity and Operational Resilience Specialist

DiceTek UAE; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Dicetek LLC in Abu Dhabi is seeking an experienced Business Continuity and Operational Resilience Specialist. The role focuses on strengthening organisational resilience through BIA, dependency mapping, scenario testing and remediation governance.

The successful candidate will maintain business continuity plans, establish impact tolerances, coordinate resilience exercises and track gaps to remediation. Collaboration with technology, risk and business teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience in business continuity management and operational resilience.
• Knowledge of BIA, impact tolerances and dependency mapping.
• Experience coordinating resilience exercises.
• Familiarity with regulatory evidence requirements.
• Experience across technology, risk and business functions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update business impact analyses for relevant services.
• Document operational impacts of potential disruptions.
• Maintain continuity plans and recovery information.
• Identify critical services and dependencies.
• Define impact tolerances for services.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to validate continuity needs.
• Plan and coordinate resilience exercises and scenario testing.
• Document exercise outcomes and remediation actions.
• Support crisis-management governance and regulatory evidence preparation.

Skills

BCM frameworks

Regulatory evidence

Stakeholder coordination

Scenario testing

Crisis governance

Education

CBCI/CBCP ISO 22301 Lead Implementer

Tools

Microsoft Power BI

BCM/GRC platforms

Job description

Business Continuity and Operational Resilience Specialist Job Snapshot - Role: Business Continuity and Operational Resilience Specialist - Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Industry: Banking - Function: Risk Management-Compliance - Experience: Minimum 7 years - Job Type: Full Time - Work Arrangement: On-site

Position Overview

Dicetek LLC is seeking an experienced Business Continuity and Operational Resilience Specialist to support business continuity planning, operational resilience assessments and recovery preparedness in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The role focuses on strengthening organisational resilience through business impact analysis (BIA), critical service identification, dependency mapping, scenario testing and remediation governance. The successful candidate will maintain business continuity plans, establish impact tolerances, coordinate resilience exercises and track identified gaps through to remediation or management risk acceptance. The position also involves supporting crisis-management governance, maintaining regulatory evidence and preparing operational resilience reports for relevant stakeholders. Candidates should have strong knowledge of business continuity management, operational resilience and scenario-based testing, together with experience working across technology, risk and business functions. Experience within regulated financial services is preferred.

Job Details

Country: United Arab Emirates - City: Abu Dhabi - Industry: Banking - Function: Risk Management-Compliance - Salary: Not disclosed - Gender: No Preference - Candidate Nationality: Not specified - Job Type: Full Time - Work Arrangement: On-site - Required Start Date: Not specified

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and update business impact analyses for relevant business services and activities.
• Document operational impacts associated with potential business disruptions.
• Maintain business continuity plans and supporting recovery information.
• Identify critical business services and associated operational dependencies.
• Define and document impact tolerances for relevant services.
• Coordinate with business and technology stakeholders to validate continuity requirements.
• Support consistent documentation of recovery priorities and dependencies.
• Identify end-to-end dependencies supporting critical business services.
• Maintain dependency maps covering relevant business processes, technology and supporting services.
• Assess potential resilience gaps associated with critical service dependencies.
• Support alignment between business impact assessments and recovery planning.
• Document resilience requirements and identified areas requiring improvement.
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to maintain accurate dependency information.
• Plan and coordinate business continuity and operational resilience exercises.
• Develop scenario-testing activities based on relevant disruption risks.
• Coordinate simulations involving appropriate business and technology stakeholders.
• Support validation of continuity arrangements and recovery dependencies.
• Document exercise observations, outcomes and identified weaknesses.
• Facilitate lessons-learned reviews following completed exercises.
• Translate testing findings into practical remediation recommendations.
• Identify and maintain records of operational resilience gaps.
• Track corrective actions arising from impact assessments and scenario exercises.
• Coordinate remediation activities with responsible stakeholders.
• Monitor outstanding resilience risks and action completion.
• Maintain documentation of management risk acceptance decisions.
• Escalate unresolved resilience concerns through appropriate governance channels.
• Support ongoing visibility of remediation progress and residual risks.
• Support crisis-management governance activities.
• Maintain relevant documentation supporting crisis response and continuity arrangements.
• Coordinate with stakeholders on recovery planning requirements.
• Support review of recovery dependencies and operational readiness.
• Document relevant findings and improvement opportunities.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of business continuity and resilience practices.
• Prepare evidence supporting business continuity and operational resilience governance.
• Maintain documentation of business impact analyses, continuity plans and scenario exercises.
• Consolidate resilience findings and remediation status for management reporting.
• Support preparation of regulatory evidence packs.
• Maintain operational resilience dashboards and supporting records.
• Communicate outstanding risks, corrective actions and management risk acceptance decisions.
• Ensure reporting is supported by current and traceable governance documentation.

Required Experience

• Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience.
• Practical experience in business continuity management, operational resilience or related risk and governance activities.
• Experience conducting or maintaining business impact analyses.
• Knowledge of business continuity and recovery planning.
• Understanding of critical services, impact tolerances and operational dependencies.
• Experience planning or coordinating business continuity and resilience exercises.
• Familiarity with scenario testing, simulations and lessons-learned reviews.
• Experience tracking resilience risks, remediation actions and management risk acceptance.
• Understanding of crisis-management governance and regulatory evidence requirements.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary technology, risk and business stakeholders.
• Experience within regulated financial services is preferred.

Required Technical and Functional Skills

• Business Continuity Management
  • Business continuity planning.
  • Business impact analysis.
  • Critical business service identification.
  • Recovery dependency documentation.
  • Continuity plan maintenance.
  • Business disruption impact assessment.
• Operational Resilience
  • Operational resilience frameworks and practices.
  • Impact tolerance definition.
  • End-to-end dependency mapping.
  • Critical service resilience assessment.
  • Resilience gap identification.
  • Recovery preparedness.
• Scenario Testing and Exercises
  • Business continuity exercises.
  • Operational resilience scenario testing.
  • Disruption simulations.
  • Exercise coordination.
  • Lessons-learned reviews.
  • Testing outcome documentation.
• Risk and Crisis Governance
  • Crisis-management governance.
  • Operational resilience risk tracking.
  • Remediation action management.
  • Management risk acceptance.
  • Regulatory evidence preparation.
  • Governance reporting.
• Stakeholder Coordination and Reporting
  • Cross-functional stakeholder engagement.
  • Business and technology coordination.
  • Risk stakeholder communication.
  • Operational resilience dashboards.
  • Management reporting.
  • Governance documentation.

Preferred Tools and Platforms

• Business Continuity Management (BCM) platforms.
• Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) platforms.
• Microsoft 365.
• Microsoft Power BI.

Preferred Professional Certifications

• Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute (CBCI).
• Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP).
• ISO 22301 Lead Implementer.
• Equivalent recognised business continuity or operational resilience certification.

Key Deliverables

• Business Impact Analysis and Continuity Documentation
  • Updated business impact analyses.
  • Current business continuity plans.
  • Documented critical services and impact tolerances.
  • Maintained recovery dependency information.
• Scenario Testing and Remediation
  • Documented scenario-testing and simulation outcomes.
  • Completed lessons-learned reviews.
  • Identified resilience gaps and corrective actions.
  • Maintained remediation tracking records.
  • Documented management risk acceptance where applicable.
• Operational Resilience Governance
  • Updated operational resilience dashboards.
  • Management reporting on resilience risks and remediation progress.
  • Supporting regulatory evidence packs.
  • Traceable continuity and resilience governance documentation.

Professional Competencies

• Strong analytical and operational risk assessment skills.
• Ability to evaluate business disruption impacts and recovery dependencies.
• Effective planning and coordination of resilience exercises.
• Sound judgment when identifying and prioritising resilience gaps.
• Strong documentation and governance reporting capabilities.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary stakeholders.
• Attention to remediation tracking and management accountability.
• Clear communication of operational resilience risks and recommendations.
• Organised approach to continuity planning and regulatory evidence management.

Role Expectations

The Business Continuity and Operational Resilience Specialist will support the organisation 's ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from operational disruptions. The successful candidate will maintain business impact analyses and continuity plans, identify critical service dependencies and coordinate scenario exercises to assess resilience preparedness. The role requires close collaboration with business, technology and risk stakeholders to identify weaknesses, track corrective actions and maintain appropriate governance evidence. The primary objective is to strengthen business continuity arrangements, improve operational resilience visibility and support effective recovery planning through structured assessments, testing and remediation governance.

Candidates must have at least 7 years of relevant experience. Previous experience in regulated financial services and relevant professional certification will be advantageous.