Senior Domain Lead – Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

Pauwels Consulting; Anderlecht; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Pauwels Consulting seeks a senior executive to provide strategic oversight and governance for resilience capabilities. You will maintain validated disaster recovery strategies and business continuity arrangements while balancing technical feasibility with business priorities.

The role focuses on driving maturity across processes and frameworks to ensure robust operational resilience, with hands-on governance, testing, and stakeholder alignment in a Brussels-based, onsite setting.

Qualifications

• 15+ years IT experience
• 5+ years in IT resilience, disaster recovery or business continuity
• Master's degree or equivalent
• Formal letter of recommendation documenting resilience program success
• Strong stakeholder management with influence
• Fluent in English, French and Dutch; native in one

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain disaster recovery strategy and standards
• Provide cost-benefit analysis for recovery options
• Align BC with resilience needs and contractual obligations
• Monitor resilience posture via dashboards and KRIs
• Coach stakeholders on disaster recovery responsibilities
• Assess maturity and define a roadmap for improvement and automation

Skills

IT resilience

Disaster recovery

Business continuity

Stakeholder management

Governance

English

French

Dutch

Education

Master's degree

Job description

Our client, a major organization operating in the critical infrastructure sector, is seeking an expert to provide strategic oversight and governance for its resilience capabilities. The role focuses on maintaining validated disaster recovery strategies and business continuity arrangements while balancing technical feasibility with business priorities. A key objective is to drive maturity improvement across processes and frameworks to ensure robust operational resilience.

• Define and maintain disaster recovery strategy and standards to ensure requirements are embedded in technical architecture.
• Provide pragmatic guidance and cost-benefit analysis for recovery options, including failover patterns and replication strategies.
• Align business continuity principles with resilience needs and contractual obligations across the organization.
• Monitor and report on resilience posture through dashboards, key risk indicators, and the review of recovery test results.
• Coach stakeholders on disaster recovery responsibilities and promote a culture of resilience and documentation best practices.
• Assess current maturity levels using recognized models and define a roadmap for continuous improvement and automation.

• 15+ years of professional experience in IT.
• 5+ years of proven experience in IT Resilience, Disaster Recovery, or Business Continuity.
• Master's degree or equivalent through professional experience.
• Experience providing a formal letter of recommendation demonstrating a successful track record in establishing resilience environments.
• Possess strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• You are fluent in English, French, and Dutch with a native level in either French or Dutch.

Nice to Haves

• Knowledge of disaster recovery frameworks such as ISO 27031 or NIST 800-34.
• Familiarity with business continuity management standards like ISO 22301.
• Experience with multi-site and hybrid-cloud architectures.
• Understanding of network, storage, replication, and failover patterns.
• Awareness of NIS 2 resilience obligations.

• Start date: 14/12/2026
• Duration: until 31/12/2027
• Work regime: Full-time
• Location: Brussels
• Working model: Onsite (up to 5 days per week)
• Contract: open to both permanent employees and freelancers