Global Technology BCM Program Manager- Systematic Quant Fund

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global quantitative investment manager is seeking a Global Technology BCM Program Manager in London. You will lead the design and implementation of business continuity strategies, blending hands-on expertise in service continuity with a focus on automation and collaboration with engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have over 10 years of experience in technology and financial services, particularly around disaster recovery and infrastructure resilience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in technology or BCP-related functions in financial services or trading firms.
• Experience managing IT continuity in live trading or production environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise applications and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the end-to-end BCP strategy.
• Lead business impact assessments and dependency analysis.
• Coordinate with platform owners to remediate vulnerabilities.

Skills

Technology continuity planning

DevOps

Production risk management

Application resilience

Disaster recovery

Communication skills

Governance frameworks

Chaos engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GRC/BCP tools

Job description

Job Description

My client is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. A technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped the collaborative mindset, enabling them to solve the most complex challenges. They have a culture of innovation which continuously drives their ambition to deliver high quality returns for investors.

About the role

Looking to hire a Global Technology BCM Program Manager to lead the design and implementation of business continuity strategies across trading systems and infrastructure. This role blends hands-on expertise in service continuity, DevOps, and production risk with a focus on automation, scalable tooling, and close collaboration with engineering.

The ideal candidate has deep experience in application and infrastructure resilience, site reliability, and governance, along with a track record of driving risk reduction and continuity planning across complex tech environments. This is a strategic, cross-functional leadership role for a technologist focused on operational resilience and controls.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the end-to-end BCP strategy from planning through testing and recovery across applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business functions
• Lead business impact assessments (BIA), recovery time objective (RTO/RPO) planning, and dependency analysis
• Design and oversee testing regimes including DR drills, application failover, tabletop exercises, and cloud recovery
• Act as the primary liaison between Technology, Business COOs, Trading Heads, Risk, Security, and Compliance
• Work across development, support and governance teams to keep the resilience posture strong and testable
• Maintain BCP governance and ensure alignment with regulatory and internal audit expectations
• Translate recovery requirements into action: clear RTO/RPO alignment, test tracking and audit response
• Coordinate with platform owners to remediate vulnerabilities and technology risks impacting BCP execution
• Support the maintenance of recovery documentation, runbooks, dependency maps, and testing schedules

Requirements

• 10+ years in technology, infrastructure, or BCP-related functions in financial services or trading firms
• Proven experience in designing and managing IT continuity and disaster recovery programs - especially in live trading or production environments
• Strong knowledge of enterprise applications, cloud infrastructure, data center operations, and IT security controls
• Practical understanding of solution architecture, fault-tolerant systems, and high availability principles
• Experience with GRC/BCP tooling and governance frameworks
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Track record of turning governance into action and audits into outcomes
• Self-starter with a balance of technical fluency and governance
• Appreciation for continuous improvement, root-cause analysis, and data-driven resiliency decision-making
• Proven experience running technical continuity tests and integrating failover workflows into production environments
• Experience running chaos engineering experiments or reliability/fire drill exercises
• Understanding of SRE methodologies including incident response, observability, and system health metrics to proactively enhance resilience
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible) and disaster recovery automation frameworks

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Contact
If this sounds like you, or you'd like more information, please get in touch:

George Hutchinson-Binks
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