Operational Resilience Lead

CAUSEWAY CONSTRUCTION LIMITED; Gerrards Cross; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension (4% matched)

Income protection

Private Medical Insurance

EAP (wellbeing support)

Study leave

Job summary

Causeway Construction Limited is seeking an Operational Resilience Lead to drive the Technology Resilience framework across critical systems and processes. You will work closely with product, engineering and IT functions to embed resilience into services and manage risk across the organisation.

The role focuses on planning, testing and reporting resilience metrics, with leadership responsibility and collaboration with stakeholders to ensure business continuity during disruptions.

Qualifications

• Experience in Business Continuity and Operational Resiliency, incl. BIAs, BC plans, disaster recovery, recovery strategy, exercises, incident management, monitoring and reporting.
• Operational experience with at least one public cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP) and VMs.
• Knowledge of ISO 22301, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials.
• Development and testing of large-scale business recovery plans.
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in a medium to large enterprise with multiple stakeholders.
• Risk management, process design and change management.
• Experience in ITSM environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the implementation of Causeway’s Technology Resilience framework across critical systems, processes and technology.
• Collaborate with product, engineering and IT to embed resilience in products and services.
• Quantify, document and report resilience metrics; design tests and validation scenarios.
• Develop improvement plans from test outcomes and lessons learned.
• Prepare resilience reports for senior management and governance forums.
• Drive continuous improvement of DR service quality, cost efficiency and effectiveness.

Skills

Business continuity

Operational resiliency

Leadership

Incident management

Disaster recovery

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

ITSM

VMs

Education

Relevant degree

CBCI or equivalent

Tools

ITSM tools

Cloud management tools

Job description

Gerrards Cross or Middlesbrough - Hybrid

Do you want to help shape software that affects thousands of lives?

Who are we?

We are ranked as the UK’s #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle.

If you are looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, US, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion.

We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.

Purpose

The Operational Resilience Lead is responsible for driving the delivery of Causeway’s Technology Resilience framework, promoting and embedding resilience and continuity best practices across the organisation. The role is accountable for identifying critical business functions – including those involving Causeway’s products and services – and ensuring they can continue to operate during a disruption. Working closely with the Crisis Management team, the role develops plans to recover from disruptions and return to normal operations as quickly as possible.

Key Responsibilities

Resilience and Continuity

• Own the implementation of Causeway’s Technology Resilience framework across critical systems, business processes, and technology.
• Evaluate and assess current resilience status, categorise services based on business criticality, and develop a roadmap to reduce risks, increase uptime, and prevent avoidable outages.
• Work collaboratively with product, engineering, and IT teams, ensuring appropriate resilience is designed into Causeway’s products and services.
• Provide subject matter expertise on continuity and resilience considerations for supplier onboarding processes, ensuring appropriate risk management throughout Causeway’s supply chain.
• Work with product owners and critical process owners to quantify, document, and report on resilience metrics.
• Design scenarios and run tests to verify and validate the effectiveness of continuity and recovery plans.
• Develop and implement improvement plans based on lessons learnt from test scenarios.
• Design and implement resilience reporting and MI, including the identification and escalation of material resilience vulnerabilities.
• Prepare and present resilience reports, lessons learnt from any invocation, and progress updates to the compliance management forum.
• Support a culture of continuous improvement within the IT function by identifying and implementing changes to enhance DR service quality, cost efficiency, and effectiveness.
• Communicate regularly with stakeholders, including system owners, Head of GRC, and senior management, providing updates on DR performance and other relevant information.

Essential Requirements

Key Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Experience in Business Continuity and Operational Resiliency, including BIAs, BC plans, disaster recovery, recovery strategy, exercises, incident management, monitoring and reporting.
• Operational experience working with at least one public cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP) and VM's.
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant regulations and standards, e.g. ISO 22301, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials.
• Development and testing of large-scale business recovery plans.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of working in a medium to large enterprise with multiple stakeholders to manage.
• Risk management experience, process design and a track record in change management.
• Demonstrable experience of operating within an ITSM.

Desirable Skills

• A relevant degree or professional continuity and resilience qualification (such as CBCI), or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Operational experience working with at least one public cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to see tasks through to completion and produce high-quality, auditable deliverables.

Our Values

We are United. As part of a team, we’re better together.

We are Agile. Be the change, we’re on a journey.

We are Trusted. Do the right thing, we own this.

We are Driven. Get stuck in, we make it happen.

Benefits

As a leader in employee engagement and people management, there are fantastic benefits and rewards at Causeway. We strive, year on year, to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that our employees love. We’ve selected just a few of the many benefits available below to show you how we take care of our Causeway stars.

• 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service.
• 4% matched pension.
• Income protection and life assurance.
• Access to our award-winning benefits platform.
• We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7.
• £100 allowance towards a fitness club.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Paid study leave + volunteering days.
• Electric Car Scheme.

Like all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year-on-year.