Expert Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Consultant

Spectraforce Technologies, Inc.; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies, Inc. in Oakland, CA is seeking an Expert Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Consultant for a 14-month engagement with potential conversion.

The role is hybrid—onsite in Oakland as needed, with local candidates preferred. You will conduct BIA and recovery requirements analyses across critical functions, partnering with leaders, application teams, architects, cybersecurity, disaster recovery and continuity stakeholders to strengthen operational resilience and business

Qualifications

• Experience leading Business Impact Analysis projects.
• Ability to facilitate workshops with business and technology teams.
• Strong focus on resilience, recovery, and continuity.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide BIA projects and assessments.
• Engage leaders, owners, architects, and teams to map dependencies.
• Evaluate impacts across financial, operational, regulatory and reputational areas.
• Document RTOs, RPOs, MTD, and recovery priorities.
• Contribute to strategic resilience and continuity initiatives.

Skills

BIA methodology

Stakeholder engagement

Recovery planning

Project leadership

Job description

Expert Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Consultant

14 Months (Potential of conversion)

Oakland, CA (Hybrid - onsite as needed)

*Looking for local candidates to be onsite as needed*

Position Summary

• The Expert Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Consultant will be responsible for conducting Business Impact Analysis assessments and recovery requirements analysis across critical business and technology functions. This position partners with business leaders, application teams, architects, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and continuity stakeholders to evaluate operational impacts, identify critical dependencies, establish recovery requirements, and support enterprise resilience initiatives.


• This role is heavily project-focused and is responsible for leading complex assessments, facilitating stakeholder engagements, driving strategic resiliency initiatives, and delivering actionable recommendations that strengthen operational resilience, disaster preparedness, cyber recovery, and business continuity capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Business Impact Analysis & Resiliency Assessments

• Lead enterprise-wide Business Impact Analysis (BIA) projects and assessments.


• Facilitate workshops with business leaders, application owners, architects, and technology teams to identify critical business functions and supporting technology dependencies.


• Evaluate financial, operational, customer, regulatory, safety, and reputational impacts associated with service disruptions.


• Determine and document Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD), and recovery priorities.


• Analyze end-to-end business processes, application dependencies, infrastructure dependencies, and third-party service relationships.

Project Delivery & Strategic Initiatives

• Lead large-scale resilience, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, and operational readiness initiatives.


• Develop project plans, schedules, milestones, executive communications, and status reporting.


• Manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and remediation activities.


• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery and achievement of program objectives.


• Support enterprise transformation efforts that impact recoverability, continuity, and resilience capabilities.

Recovery Strategy & Operational Resilience

• Translate BIA findings into actionable recovery and resiliency recommendations.


• Partner with Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Cyber Recovery, and Infrastructure teams to align recovery strategies with business requirements.


• Support application recoverability assessments and recovery prioritization activities.


• Evaluate critical business services and supporting technology capabilities to identify resiliency improvement opportunities.


• Recommend process improvements, automation opportunities, and governance enhancements.

Governance, Compliance & Reporting

• Maintain BIA methodologies, standards, procedures, templates, and governance processes.


• Support internal audits, regulatory reviews, compliance initiatives, and resilience assessments.


• Develop executive dashboards, metrics, reports, and presentations for senior leadership.


• Ensure assessment results and recovery requirements remain current and aligned with business objectives.


• Identify operational risks and resilience improvement opportunities across the enterprise.

Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory Services

• Serve as the enterprise BIA subject matter expert and trusted advisor.


• Build relationships with business leaders, technology organizations, risk management, cybersecurity, emergency preparedness, and continuity teams.


• Present findings, recommendations, roadmap activities, and risk assessments to leadership and governance committees.


• Coach and educate stakeholders on resilience planning methodologies, standards, and best practices.