Disaster Recovery Testing Lead - Resilience Delivery

001 The Northern Trust Company

Chicago (IL)

On-site

USD 96,000 - 162,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

The Northern Trust Company seeks a Disaster Recovery Testing Delivery Lead to own end-to-end DR testing strategy, plans, and governance across critical applications and infrastructure. You will ensure recoverability, meet RTO/RPO objectives, and align DR capabilities with regulatory and business expectations.

Lead cross-functional teams, drive continuous improvement, and coordinate enterprise DR exercises with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

Extensive experience leading enterprise DR testing programs.
Strong knowledge of DR governance, compliance, and audit support.
Experience coordinating cross-functional, geographically distributed teams.

Responsibilities

Define and own enterprise DR testing strategy, plans, and operating model.
Ensure alignment with BCP, IT Risk, Cyber Resilience, and regulatory requirements.
Establish standardized DR test frameworks, runbooks, success criteria and reporting.
Drive continuous improvement based on tests, incidents and audits.
Lead DR simulation, failover and failback testing (technology- and business-led).
Coordinate end-to-end DR exercises across applications, infrastructure, cloud, and third-party vendors.
Validate RTO, RPO, MTD, and data consistency across DR events.
Ensure testing coverage for planned, unplanned, and cyber-driven DR scenarios.
Act as single point of accountability for DR testing delivery.
Partner with Application, Infrastructure, Security, Network, Cloud, and Business teams.
Manage executive-level communications, dashboards, and risk escalations.
Support audits and compliance attestations; drive remediation plans.