Business Resilience Engineer [See location in posting]

Regions Financial Corporation; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 126,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Business Resilience Engineer, where you will play a key role in enhancing the organization’s ability to withstand and recover from disruptions. This position involves designing resilience strategies against cyber threats and natural disasters, ensuring operational continuity. You will collaborate with various teams to assess risks, develop recovery plans, and conduct resilience exercises. With a focus on innovation and excellence, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact within a dynamic environment. If you are passionate about resilience and risk management, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Paid Vacation/Sick Time

401K with Company Match

Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits

Disability Benefits

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Account

Life Insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Associate Volunteer Program

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, or Cyber Security.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required.

Responsibilities

• Lead Business Impact Analysis sessions and develop cyber recovery strategies.
• Plan and coordinate resilience exercises with business leaders.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem Resolution

Decision-Making Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Project Management

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems

Bachelor’s degree in a related technical/business field

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.

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Job Description:

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 caused by cyber-attacks, natural disasters, man-made disasters, and other crisis 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

• Leads the enhancement of 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.
• Develops 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.
• Collaborates with management to ensure that team technical knowledge or skills gaps are addressed, and effective training procedures are developed.
• Offers advice and guidance to junior engineers as a subject-matter expert.

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.
• Ten (10) 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.
• 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.

As a member of the team, you will provide advice and oversight of our resilience and supplier risk framework associated policies, and support the business implementation of frameworks. You will support the continued embedment of the operational resilience and outsourcing regulatory requirements. In addition, you will assist in the development of analytics, drive risk profile monitoring and metrics for Senior Management, support the ongoing review of operational resilience issues and incidents, and conduct thematic reviews over critical operations and material third party suppliers.

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.

Position Type

Full time

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: $126,150.20 USD

Median: $157,710.00 USD

Incentive Pay Plans:

Benefits Information

Regions offers a benefits package that is flexible, comprehensive and recognizes that "one size does not fit all" for benefits-eligible associates. Listed below is a synopsis of the benefits offered by Regions for informational purposes, which is not intended to be a complete summary of plan terms and conditions.

• Paid Vacation/Sick Time
• 401K with Company Match
• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Disability Benefits
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Associate Volunteer Program

Please note, benefits and plans may be changed, amended, or terminated with respect to all or any class of associate at any time. To learn more about Regions’ benefits, please click or copy the link below to your browser.

https://www.regions.com/welcometour/benefits.rf

Location Details

Atlanta Midtown

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.