Assistant Vice President - Business Continuity and Cyber Resiliency

EXL Talent Acquisition Team; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Cyber Resiliency and Business Continuity leadership role focusing on defining recovery objectives, enabling resilient operations, and leading crisis management.

Responsibilities include coordinating with cyber, technology, infrastructure, and governance teams, implementing ISO 22301-aligned frameworks, conducting BIA and risk assessments, and ensuring resilience across processes, technology, and third parties.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Cyber, Technology, Infrastructure, Application Owners, Cloud, and third parties to define cyber recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) and dependency mapping.
• Lead adoption of cyber resiliency practices, immutable and air-gapped backups, clean-room recovery, secure identity recovery, and restoration validation.
• Ensure cyber crisis response playbooks are integrated across Incident Response, Crisis Management, DR, Legal, Compliance, Communications, and Executive leadership.
• Drive regular cyber recovery simulations (table-top and technical); track actions through closure and report readiness to governance forums.
• Lead implementation of enterprise Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Cyber Resiliency frameworks aligned to ISO 22301.
• Act as primary contact for client assurance, regulatory reviews, audits, RFPs/RFIs, and resilience capability demonstrations.
• Drive organization-wide BIAs, risk assessments, and threat modeling to identify critical services and vulnerabilities.
• Identify and remediate SPOFs across business processes, technology, people, and third‑party dependencies.
• Lead and coordinate large-scale enterprise crisis response as core Crisis Management Team member during high-impact events.
• Manage crises including cyber incidents, outages, infrastructure failures, civil disturbances, disasters, and geopolitical disruptions with controlled escalation.
• Oversee development, testing, and execution of Crisis Management Plans, Emergency Response Plans, and Command Center protocols.

Job description

Cyber Resiliency

• Partner with Cyber, Technology, Infrastructure, Application Owners, Cloud, and third parties to define cyber recovery objectives (RTO/RPO), prioritized service recovery, and dependency mapping.
• Lead adoption of cyber resiliency practices, immutable and air‑gapped backups, clean‑room recovery, secure identity recovery, and restoration validation.
• Ensure cyber crisis response playbooks are fully integrated across Incident Response, Crisis Management, DR, Legal, Compliance, Communications, and Executive leadership.
• Drive regular cyber recovery simulations (table‑top and technical); track corrective actions through closure and report readiness to governance forums

Business Continuity

• Lead implementation, and continuous enhancement of enterprise Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Cyber Resiliency frameworks aligned to ISO 22301 and leading resilience standards
• Act as a primary point of contact for client assurance, regulatory reviews, audits, RFPs/RFIs, and resilience capability demonstrations
• Drive organization-wide Business Impact Assessments (BIA), risk assessments, and threat modeling to identify critical services, recovery priorities, and systemic vulnerabilities.
• Identify and remediate Single Points of Failure (SPOFs) across business processes, technology, people, and third‑party dependencies.

Crisis Management

• Lead and coordinate large‑scale enterprise crisis response, acting as a core member of the Crisis Management Team during high‑impact events.
• Manage crises including cyber incidents, technology outages, infrastructure failures, civil disturbances, natural disasters, and geopolitical disruptions, ensuring controlled escalation and decision‑making

• Oversee development, testing, and execution of Crisis Management Plans, Emergency Response Plans, and Command Center protocols