AVP, Disaster Recovery & Enterprise Resilience

LPL Financial Corp; Fort Mill (SC, FL); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

LPL Financial in Fort Mill, SC seeks an AVP of Disaster Recovery to lead the enterprise DR program, strategy, and testing efforts. You will partner with infrastructure, security, risk, and business teams to ensure rapid recovery aligned with regulatory requirements and business objectives.

You will drive governance, metrics, and executive communications while guiding DR engineers and related technology teams through complex recovery scenarios.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in disaster recovery, technology resilience, infrastructure, or related enterprise tech disciplines.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale DR programs within large, complex technology environments.
• Experience across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments (AWS/Azure).

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the enterprise disaster recovery program and strategy.
• Establish DR standards, governance, testing practices, and recovery expectations aligned with objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Review BIAs and risk assessments to identify critical systems and establish RTO/RPO requirements.
• Lead the enterprise DR testing program, including tabletop exercises and large-scale simulations.
• Assess DR testing results, identify risks and remediation priorities, drive accountability for resolution.
• Provide leadership during outages and coordinate recovery activities and stakeholder communications.

Skills

Leadership

Executive communication

Cloud experience

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science / IT / Business Administration

Job description

LPL Financial in Fort Mill, SC seeks an AVP of Disaster Recovery to lead the enterprise DR program, strategy, and testing efforts. You will partner with infrastructure, security, risk, and business teams to ensure rapid recovery aligned with regulatory requirements and business objectives.

You will drive governance, metrics, and executive communications while guiding DR engineers and related technology teams through complex recovery scenarios.