Business Resiliency Specialist III

CareSource Management Services; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CareSource Management Services seeks a Business Resiliency Specialist III to develop and sustain policies for continuity, disaster recovery, and incident management. You will partner with business and IT leaders to assess risks, coordinate response, and validate readiness through training and exercises.

You will lead post-incident reviews, track corrective actions, and drive improvements to prevent disruptions while maintaining critical services and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; equivalent years of relevant work experience may be accepted.
• Minimum five years in Business Continuity/Resiliency, Disaster Recovery, and Incident/Crisis Management.
• Health plan, Managed care, process improvement and/or business analysis experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain resiliency policies, incident and disaster recovery plans, playbooks, and documentation.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to define roles, escalation, and communication for resilience.
• Conduct business impact analyses and risk assessments of processes, vendors, and tech.
• Develop and maintain business continuity plans to sustain critical functions.
• Lead training, tabletop exercises, and disaster recovery tests to validate readiness.
• Coordinate incident and crisis response from activation through recovery and return to normal operations.
• Lead post-incident reviews, document lessons learned, and drive corrective actions.
• Maintain metrics and reports tracking preparedness and recoverability of services.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Critical thinking

Decision making

Project management

Troubleshooting

Problem solving

Organizational skills

Prioritization

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Summary:

The Business Resiliency Specialist III develops and maintains policies, plans, and procedures for business continuity, disaster recovery, and incident and crisis management to sustain critical operations and restore services following disruptions. The role partners with business and technology stakeholders to assess business impacts, risks, and third-party dependencies; coordinate response and recovery; and validate readiness through training, exercises, and testing. Responsibilities include monitoring emerging risks and applicable requirements, supporting compliance, reporting on preparedness and recoverability, and implementing improvements through lessons learned and corrective actions. The specialist also provides guidance, training, and work direction to less experienced personnel.

Essential Functions:

• Develop, implement, review, and maintain business resiliency policies and incident management, crisis management, and disaster recovery plans, procedures, playbooks, and supporting documentation. Work with stakeholders to establish roles, responsibilities, escalation paths, communication protocols, and decision-making structures, and oversee adherence to requirements.
• Conduct or support business impact analyses and risk assessments to identify critical functions, dependencies, threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigation strategies. Evaluate how changes to business processes, technology, facilities, vendors, and operating models affect response, continuity, and recovery. Work with vendor owners to assess third-party preparedness and address resiliency risks.
• Develop, implement, review, and maintain business continuity plans with business owners to sustain critical functions during disruptions and guide short- and long-term recovery and business resumption.
• Partner with Information Technology, Facilities, Legal, Compliance, Communications, Security, business leaders, project managers, and other stakeholders to integrate business resiliency and response programs and maintain the availability and integrity of applications, data, systems, and networks.
• Coordinate the design, implementation, and maintenance of disaster recovery processes for systems, applications, data, infrastructure, networks, and operating environments.
• Develop and deliver training, tabletop exercises, annual disaster simulations, and disaster recovery tests to validate plans, reinforce responsibilities, and improve readiness and service restoration.
• Coordinate incident, crisis, emergency, and business disruption response from escalation and plan activation through recovery, business resumption, and return to normal operations. Coordinate decision-making, resources, and stakeholder communications, and maintain timely, accurate records of decisions, actions, risks, impacts, and recovery status.
• Lead post-incident and post-exercise reviews, analyze results, document lessons learned, and track corrective actions. Use findings, risk assessments, and industry practices to recommend and implement improvements aimed at preventing incidents and disasters, reducing impacts, strengthening response and recovery, resolving production issues, and improving operational efficiency.
• Develop and maintain technical and scalability documentation, metrics, and reports to track preparedness, plan currency, exercise results, corrective actions, and recoverability of critical services, systems, and applications.
• Monitor emerging risks, security alerts, threats, regulations, standards, and industry practices relevant to resiliency and response. Ensure equipment, systems, services, and facilities meet disaster recovery requirements, and support compliance with organizational policies, regulations, and applicable standards, including ISO 22301 and NIST SP 800-34.
• Provide guidance, training, and work direction to less experienced business resiliency, business continuity, disaster recovery, and incident management personnel.
• Perform other job-related duties as requested.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree is required
• Equivalent years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of required education
• Five (5) years' experience in Business Continuity/Business Resiliency, Disaster Recovery, and Incident/Crisis Management
• Health plan, Managed care, process improvement and/or business analysis experience preferred

Competencies, Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong knowledge of business resiliency standards and best practices, with experience implementing industry standards such as NIST 800-34.
• Familiarity with disaster recovery tools and techniques.
• Advanced computer skills.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with advanced decision-making, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities and attention to detail.
• Process and/or workflow planning and design skills, with demonstrated success developing and implementing new practices and controls that deliver specific improvements.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong organizational, prioritiza