Business Resilience Engineer

Regions Bank; Birmingham (AL); Remote; USD 107,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank is seeking a Business Resilience Engineer to enhance strategies for business continuity and disaster recovery. The role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure operational resilience against cyber threats and other disruptions. Candidates should have extensive experience in IT risk management and relevant certifications are preferred. This position primarily allows remote work from selected locations.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in Business Continuity, Cyber Security, or IT Risk Management.
• Relevant certifications preferred: CBCP, CISSP, CISA, or CISM.

Responsibilities

• Enhances Business Impact Analysis methodology and leads sessions.
• Develops and tests cyber recovery strategies.
• Coordinates resilience exercises with business leaders.

Skills

Analytical

Leadership

Problem Resolution

Decision-Making

Communication

Project Management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems

Tools

SharePoint

JIRA

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Thank you for your interest in a career at Regions. At Regions, we believe associates deserve more than just a job. We believe in offering performance-driven individuals a place where they can build a career --- a place to expect more opportunities. If you are focused on results, dedicated to quality, strength and integrity, and possess the drive to succeed, then we are your employer of choice.

At Regions, the Business Resilience Engineer helps the organization prepare and adapt to business disruptions from cyber threats to natural disasters, while maintaining critical bank operations, and safeguarding people, processes, and tools. Assists with the design and implementation of resilience strategies that improve the organization's ability to evolve, anticipate, withstand, and recover from cyber-attacks or other disruptions that impact critical business operations. Supports high-profile incident response and recovery activities for business or technology disruptions, including those cause by cyber-attacks, natural disaster, man-made disaster, and other crises scenarios. Takes direction and works closely with the Business Resilience manager to support the collaboration and testing of business process resilience plans. Drives the team’s analyses and testing of Information Technology’s response and recovery activities for technology disruptions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Enhances the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) methodology and leads BIA sessions with business units throughout the company to help the organization prepare and adapt to business disruptions, including cyber security
• Partners with business process and technology owners to develop advanced cyber recovery strategies along with traditional strategies; test these strategies and technology recovery capabilities
• Identifies Business Units’ process interdependencies (between processes, data, and applications) and determines Regions’ critical path
• Plans, coordinates, and administers resilience exercises with business leaders to ensure soundness of operational and cyber resilience.
• Develops and updates process maps for resiliency management activities that reflect the department’s efforts to identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover from potential cyber threats and maintain situational awareness
• Ensures all frameworks, processes, procedures, and exercise methods meet or exceed regulations established by the FFIEC
• Assists in the development of communications including proposals, reports, presentations, and procedures (including recommendations) to all levels of management
• Develops and maintains detailed measurements on business resiliency, readiness, crisis, and incident reporting
• Develops comprehensive reporting including scheduling, tracking, and reporting on resiliency and the evaluation of test deficiencies and development of follow-up action plans
• Researches and remains current on the latest business resilience trends and assess applicability to Regions Bank
• May serve as a resource to associates with less experience

This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical/business field
• Eight (8) years of experience in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Incident Management/Response, Cyber Security, IT Risk Management, IT Audit or a combination of other directly related experience

Preferences

• Relevant Certification strongly preferred: Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), or Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
• Experience in performing business impact analyses, cyber risk assessments, advanced recovery strategies and developing resiliency documentation
• Experience with light automation and reporting tools (e.g. SharePoint, JIRA, Power BI, Tableau, etc.)

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to develop and maintain relationships with employees of all levels
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, problem resolution, and decision-making skills
• Strong influencing skills and ability to drive the Business Resilience agenda
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Strong process and project management skills with the ability to improve process efficiency and effectiveness

This position is currently offsite in Birmingham AL, Nashville TN, Atlanta GA, or Charlotte NC and associates will work from their home primarily. They may be expected to go on site for meetings or other events as needed.

This position may be filled at a higher level depending on the candidate's qualifications and relevant experience.

Compensation Details

Pay ranges are job specific and are provided as a point-of-market reference for compensation decisions. Other factors which directly impact pay for individual associates include: experience, skills, knowledge, contribution, job location and, most importantly, performance in the job role. As these factors vary by individuals, pay will also vary among individual associates within the same job.

The target information listed below is based on the Metropolitan Statistical Area Market Range for where the position is located and level of the position.

Job Range Target:

Minimum:

$107,571.75 USD

50th Percentile:

$130,580.00 USD

Incentive Pay Plans:

This job is not incentive eligible.

Location:

Atlanta, Georgia

Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans

Job applications at Regions are accepted electronically through our career site for a minimum of five business days from the date of posting. Job postings for higher-volume positions may remain active for longer than the minimum period due to business need and may be closed at any time thereafter at the discretion of the company.