Head of IT Enterprise Resilience & Recovery

NXP Semiconductors NV; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors NV is seeking a seasoned leader to own enterprise disaster recovery governance and the Minimum Viable Company program for technology recovery in a large, global environment.

The role requires cross-functional coordination across CIO/CISO, legal, audit, and executive leadership to ensure readiness, standards, and measurable resilience outcomes. Strong communication and crisis management skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in IT, cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Continuity, Risk Management, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience across technology resilience, disaster recovery, business continuity, information security, infrastructure, enterprise IT operations, risk management, or crisis management.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise disaster recovery or cyber recovery programs for complex, global technology environments, including critical infrastructure, applications, network, identity, cloud, endpoint, data, and collaboration services.
• Strong understanding of business impact analysis, recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, dependency mapping, operational resilience, service continuity, and recovery validation methods.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional programs across CIO, CISO, business, manufacturing/site, legal, communications, audit, risk, and executive leadership stakeholders.
• Practical knowledge of crisis management, incident command concepts, playbooks, communications protocols, after-action reviews, and executive reporting during disruptive events.
• Ability to translate complex technical dependencies and recovery constraints into clear executive-level decisions, priorities, risk statements, and action plans.
• Experience designing and executing tabletop, simulation, full-scale, failover, backup and recovery, cyber recovery, and out-of-band communication exercises.
• Familiarity with international resilience, continuity, crisis, incident, and risk management standards such as ISO 22301, ISO 22316, ISO 22320, ISO 22361, ISO 31000, COSO ERM, and relevant industry requirements.
• Strong governance discipline with experience establishing standards, metrics, remediation tracking, audit evidence, management reporting, and continuous improvement mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise disaster recovery governance for the technology estate, including recovery standards, critical technology dependencies, recovery time objectives, recovery sequencing, ownership, validation expectations, and exception handling.
• Lead the Minimum Viable Company program for technology recovery, coordinating cross-tower and site-level inputs from CIO teams, information security, operations, business resilience, and other critical stakeholders.
• Define, maintain, and validate cold start capabilities that enable NXP to restore essential technology services when primary environments, identity, network, collaboration, or tooling capabilities are degraded or unavailable.
• Chair the quarterly Recovery Owners' Council to align recovery owners on standards, risks, dependencies, exercise findings, remediation actions, and readiness metrics.
• Build and manage the enterprise recovery exercise calendar, including tabletop, simulation, full-scale, failover, backup and recovery, cyber recovery, out-of-band communications, and site/tower-specific tests.
• Set IT recovery standards that CIO towers build to, and validate those standards through exercises, tests, after-action reviews, audit findings, management reviews, and measurable corrective actions.
• Coordinate with Business Resilience & Crisis Management leaders to align disaster recovery, business continuity, crisis readiness, playbooks, BIAs, ORAs, rosters, communication protocols, reporting, and Fusion platform data where applicable.
• During incidents or crises, lead recovery and restoration activities as a coordinated peer to the Incident Commander, ensuring recovery objectives, resource needs, dependencies, risks, and executive decision points are clear.
• Report resilience readiness, recovery risks, exercise outcomes, audit results, and remediation progress to the CISO, CIO, Management Team stakeholders, and audit committee forums as required.
• Drive continuous improvement of enterprise resilience capability through KPIs, lessons learned, third-party or internal audit inputs, regulatory and standards alignment, and pragmatic prioritization of risk reduction across technology services.

Skills

Disaster recovery

Business continuity

Crisis management

Incident command

Executive reporting

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Audit readiness

Tabletop exercises

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in IT or related field

Job description

NXP Semiconductors NV is seeking a seasoned leader to own enterprise disaster recovery governance and the Minimum Viable Company program for technology recovery in a large, global environment.

The role requires cross-functional coordination across CIO/CISO, legal, audit, and executive leadership to ensure readiness, standards, and measurable resilience outcomes. Strong communication and crisis management skills are essential.