Senior Leader, Infrastructure Resilience & Disaster Recovery

Mashreqbank PSC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Mashreqbank PSC in the United Arab Emirates is seeking an AVP – Infrastructure Resilience to lead technology resilience programs, governance, and recovery planning across applications, infrastructure, and services. You will ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and partner with risk, audit, and compliance teams to strengthen readiness.

The role focuses on DR testing, automation, metrics, and continuous improvement, coordinating across UAE and IBG locations, driving resilience maturity

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.

Responsibilities

• Govern Disaster Recovery governance across policies, standards, procedures, and frameworks.
• Plan, coordinate, and facilitate disaster recovery drills and resilience exercises across regions and business units.
• Track RTOs and RPOs and validate recovery procedures.
• Support operational resilience initiatives for critical business services.
• Lead DR automation and tooling integration, measure adoption and performance improvements.
• Manage resilience audits and remediation activities with internal/external audits and regulators.
• Engage with technology leadership and stakeholders, present resilience metrics to senior management.
• Develop executive dashboards and resilience KPI reporting for boards and management.
• Coordinate cross-country efforts among UAE and IBG locations to align standards and objectives.
• Drive process excellence, automation, and best practices to improve efficiency and reliability.

Skills

Disaster Recovery

Operational Resilience

IT Risk Management

Regulatory Compliance

Job description

Mashreqbank PSC in the United Arab Emirates is seeking an AVP – Infrastructure Resilience to lead technology resilience programs, governance, and recovery planning across applications, infrastructure, and services. You will ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and partner with risk, audit, and compliance teams to strengthen readiness.

The role focuses on DR testing, automation, metrics, and continuous improvement, coordinating across UAE and IBG locations, driving resilience maturity