Disaster Recovery Architect

Tata Consultancy Services; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual Incentive

Comprehensive Medical Coverage

Family Leave

Auto & Home Insurance

Commuter Benefits and Training Reimb.

Vacation & Holidays

401K & Financial Benefits

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Seattle, WA is seeking a Lead Disaster Recovery Architect to define, lead, and mature enterprise-wide Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery (DR), and Operational Resilience capabilities.

You will combine business continuity, DR architecture, cloud resilience, recovery automation, and operational readiness to influence enterprise decisions and drive transformational change.

Qualifications

• Over 10 years in technology architecture, infrastructure, resiliency, or continuity.
• Over 7 years leading BC/DR programs in complex enterprises.
• Experience designing enterprise resilience and recovery frameworks.
• Experience across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
• Proven ability to influence executives and drive enterprise initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise BC/DR and resilience strategies and roadmaps.
• Design DR architectures across Azure, AWS, hybrid, and on-premises setups.
• Lead BIAs, identify critical services, and set recovery priorities.
• Develop recovery strategies, runbooks, and continuity procedures.
• Drive recovery automation, IaC, and orchestration efforts.
• Align DR with cyber recovery and incident response plans.
• Lead DR testing, tabletop exercises, and resilience simulations.
• Define KPIs and executive resilience scorecards; track remediation.

Skills

Business Continuity

Disaster Recovery

Operational Resilience

Recovery Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Scripting

Cloud Resilience

Recovery Runbooks

Playbooks

Agile

Job description

Disaster Recovery Architect

Role Overview

We are seeking a Lead Business Continuity Architect to define, lead, and mature enterprise-wide Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery (DR), and Operational Resilience capabilities.

This role provides strategic and technical leadership to ensure critical business services remain available, recoverable, and resilient during technology outages, cyber incidents, third-party failures, and regional disruptions.

The successful candidate will combine expertise in business continuity, disaster recovery architecture, cloud and infrastructure resilience, recovery automation, and operational readiness with the ability to influence enterprise-wide decisions and drive transformational change.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Operational Resilience strategies, standards, governance frameworks, and roadmaps.
• Design and govern DR architectures for critical applications and services across Azure, AWS, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
• Define recovery patterns aligned with Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), availability requirements, and application dependencies.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to conduct Business Impact Analyses (BIA), identify critical services and dependencies, and establish recovery priorities.
• Develop and maintain recovery strategies, playbooks, runbooks, and continuity procedures.
• Lead recovery automation and orchestration, including repeatable failover, failback, validation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and scripting capabilities.
• Guide implementation of high availability, backup, replication, immutable backups, recovery vaults, and secure recovery environments.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to align DR capabilities with cyber recovery and incident response plans.
• Establish DR testing programs and lead tabletop exercises, technical failover tests, resilience exercises, and business continuity simulations.
• Define recovery KPIs, readiness metrics, executive resilience scorecards, and remediation initiatives.
• Ensure resilience practices align with applicable regulatory, audit, risk, and industry requirements.
• Monitor emerging threats, industry trends, and regulatory developments impacting resilience strategies.
• Serve as the enterprise subject matter expert for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, mentor technical teams, and communicate complex resilience concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requi red Qualifications

Experience

• 10+ years of technology architecture, infrastructure, resiliency, or operational continuity experience.
• 7+ years leading Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery programs within complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience developing enterprise resilience strategies and recovery frameworks.
• Experience architecting recovery solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
• Experience leading large-scale disaster recovery testing and recovery modernization programs.
• Proven ability to influence executive leadership and drive enterprise-wide initiatives.

Technical Expertise

Experience in several of the following areas:

• Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
• Disaster Recovery (DR)
• Operational Resilience
• Recovery Automation & Orchestration
• Recovery Runbooks & Playbooks
• High Availability Architecture
• Crisis Management Support
• Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
• Recovery Strategy Development
• RTO/RPO Management
• Cloud Resilience Architecture
• Infrastructure Modernization
• Cyber Recovery
• Data Protection & Replication
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Automation & Scripting
• Platform Reliability & Resilience Engineering

TCS Employee Benefits Summary:

• Discretionary Annual Incentive.
• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
• Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
• Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
• Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.
• Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.
• Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

Salary Range- $100,000-$130,000 a year

Location

Seattle, WA

Function

TECHNOLOGY

Role

Technical Architect

ID

437641

Skills

Agile

Salary Range

$100,000 - $130,000