Group Operational Resilience Lead

Beca; Auckland; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Immigration support

Flexible working

Professional development

Health insurance discounts

Job summary

Beca in New Zealand looks for a Group Operational Resilience Lead to strengthen how we prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruption. Reporting to the CISO, you will map dependencies, assess risks, and build practical recovery and resilience plans across the Group.

This role requires translating complex resilience concepts into actionable business guidance and partnering with business and technology leaders to embed a new enterprise capability.

Qualifications

• Experience in operational resilience, business continuity, cyber resilience, disaster recovery, or a related field.
• Practical experience conducting BIAs, resilience assessments, recovery planning and scenario testing.
• Strong understanding of technology environments, dependencies, cyber and third‑party risks.
• Ability to translate complex risk concepts into clear business language.

Responsibilities

• Establishing and developing Beca’s Critical Business Services framework.
• Identify critical services, dependencies, risks and single points of failure with leaders.
• Develop and test practical recovery plans, runbooks and disruption scenarios.
• Drive resilience improvements and support major incident recovery across the Group.

Skills

Operational resilience

Business continuity

Cyber resilience

Disaster recovery

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Facilitation

Technical concepts to business

Communication

Education

Relevant professional qualifications or certifications

BIAs and resilience assessments experience

Job description

Te whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

At Beca, we’re building a more resilient future.

As our technology and supplier grow, we’re creating a Group Operational Resilience Lead role to strengthen how we prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruption.

Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer, you’ll lead the development of Beca’s Critical Business Services framework, partnering with stakeholders across the business to identify critical processes, map technology and supplier dependencies, assess risks, and establish practical recovery and resilience plans. You’ll build a new enterprise capability, influence senior leaders, and shape Beca’s Group-wide resilience—helping us continue delivering for our clients through disruption.

This is a highly collaborative role that will see you working with business process owners, product owners, technology leaders, and operational teams across Beca. Rather than focusing solely on technology, you’ll help translate complex technical and resilience concepts into practical actions and decision‑making frameworks that enable the wider business to prepare for and manage disruption.

Key responsibilities include:

• Establishing and developing Beca’s Critical Business Services framework
• Working with business and technology leaders to identify critical services, dependencies, risks and single points of failure.
• Developing and testing practical recovery plans, operational runbooks and disruption scenarios.
• Driving resilience improvements and supporting major incident recovery across the Group.

Ko wai koe | About you

We’re looking for a resilience professional who combines strong business engagement skills with a practical understanding of technology, cyber security, and operational risk.

You may come from a business continuity, operational resilience, cyber resilience, disaster recovery, or related risk background.

You will bring:

• Demonstrated experience in operational resilience, business continuity, cyber resilience, disaster recovery, or a related field.
• Practical experience conducting Business Impact Assessments (BIAs), resilience assessments, recovery planning, and scenario testing.
• A sound understanding of technology environments, critical service dependencies, cyber risks, and third-party risks.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills with the ability to build consensus, and drive action.
• The ability to translate complex technical and risk concepts into clear, practical business language.
• Relevant professional qualifications or certifications would be advantageous but are not essential.

This role would suit an experienced resilience professional who is comfortable influencing senior leaders and outcomes, working across organisational boundaries, and building a capability from the ground up.

Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou | What we offer

A career with Beca will provide you with:

• Professional development opportunities.
• A supportive and caring work environment where you can bring your whole self to work.
• Support with relocation and immigration to suitable applicants.
• Flexible working arrangements to balance your personal / family commitments.
• Opportunities to learn from our industry experts and technical gurus across the Asia Pacific.
• A highly supportive environment of sharing and collaboration.
• Excellent benefits provided to all staff – including discounted health insurance, discounts on gym memberships, and a number of social club events.

Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture – open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.