Director – Advanced Resiliency Operations

Jobtailor; Kentucky; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior resiliency leader to steer enterprise-wide recovery, continuity planning and disaster recovery programs. You will coordinate with business units and IT to map dependencies and drive remediation progress at scale.

You will analyze risk exposures, lead continuous improvement, and communicate complex concepts to executives while guiding incident response and recovery activities across technology, operations, and vendors.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years demonstrated ability and familiarity with a range of technology platforms and environments such as cloud services, open/distributed systems, and mainframe.
• Experience collaborating across business units and products including third parties to analyze and test response capabilities.
• Exposure to defining and setting architecture standards, and the ability to review technical configurations.
• You understand the interaction across the technology stack from an application, middleware, database, server, router, network, and storage devices.
• Familiarity with data replication technologies and methods as well as cloud and hybrid cloud configurations and solutions.
• Experience in Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity or Risk related programs.
• Functional knowledge and experience with emergency response and crisis management (preferred).
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Information Systems, Engineering, Data Analytics or Risk Management Discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead the facilitation of enterprise-level resiliency, results gathering, analysis, and reporting of results to applicable management teams.
• Engage key business operations and/or technology stakeholders to discuss current and emerging risk exposures.
• Articulate the need and options to remediate gaps, and drive the overall TRR Program forward through continuous improvement.
• Coordinate the creation and maintenance of Fidelity recovery capabilities at mass scale for firm-wide recovery.
• Partner with BUs to define, inventory and sequence critical business services.
• Partner with IT product and support teams to map application dependencies to critical business services.
• Assess effectiveness and validate documented architecture patterns.
• Identify architecture pattern deviations, track and escape remediations.
• Respond to emerging technology resiliency challenges and changes.
• Solve complicated problems, demonstrate confidence with unanticipated situations, and help find innovative ways to mitigate risk using advanced analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Participate in the incident response program and recovery activities for business operations, technology or vendor disruptions.

Skills

cloud services

open/distributed systems

mainframe

data replication technologies

cloud configurations

hybrid cloud solutions

Disaster Recovery

Business Continuity

Risk Management

architecture standards

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead the facilitation of enterprise-level resiliency, results gathering, analysis, and reporting of results to applicable management teams.
• Engage key business operations and/or technology stakeholders to discuss current and emerging risk exposures.
• Articulate the need and options to remediate gaps, and drive the overall TRR Program forward through continuous improvement.
• Coordinate the creation and maintenance of Fidelity recovery capabilities at mass scale for firm-wide recovery.
• Partner with BUs to define, inventory and sequence critical business services.
• Partner with IT product and support teams to map application dependencies to critical business services.
• Assess effectiveness and validate documented architecture patterns.
• Identify architecture pattern deviations, track and escape remediations.
• Respond to emerging technology resiliency challenges and changes.
• Solve complicated problems, demonstrate confidence with unanticipated situations, and help find innovative ways to mitigate risk using advanced analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Participate in the incident response program and recovery activities for business operations, technology or vendor disruptions.

Requirements

• 10-15 years demonstrated ability and familiarity with a range of technology platforms and environments such as cloud services, open/distributed systems, and mainframe.
• Experience collaborating across business units and products including third parties to analyze and test response capabilities.
• Exposure to defining and setting architecture standards, and the ability to review technical configurations.
• You understand the interaction across the technology stack from an application, middleware, database, server, router, network, and storage devices.
• Familiarity with data replication technologies and methods as well as cloud and hybrid cloud configurations and solutions.
• Experience in Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity or Risk related programs.
• Functional knowledge and experience with emergency response and crisis management (preferred).
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Information Systems, Engineering, Data Analytics or Risk Management Discipline.

Hard Skills

• cloud services
• open/distributed systems
• mainframe
• data replication technologies
• cloud configurations
• hybrid cloud solutions
• Disaster Recovery
• Business Continuity
• Risk Management
• architecture standards

Soft Skills

• analytical skills
• critical thinking
• problem-solving
• communication
• collaboration
• confidence
• innovation
• continuous improvement
• stakeholder engagement
• incident response

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree