Infrastructure Resilience Lead – Enterprise BC/DR & HA

Information Technology Senior Management Forum; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 151,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an exceptional consulting leader to serve as our Infrastructure Resiliency Lead, a senior role with enterprise-wide ownership of IT resiliency strategy and execution. This position reports to CIO-level stakeholders and drives BC/DR, HA architecture, and geo-resilience across the firm's global infrastructure.

You'll lead executive engagements with CIOs and CROs, own P&L for resiliency engagements, and guide crisis management design, regulatory compliance, and emerging

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure, operational resilience, or technology risk, with a demonstrable specialty in BC/DR and HA architecture.
• Minimum 10+ years in senior leadership roles with direct ownership of resiliency strategy, regulatory compliance, or crisis response for large, complex enterprises.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.

Responsibilities

• Own IT resiliency end-to-end — setting strategy, governing architecture, and driving execution across BC/DR, HA design, operational resilience, and geo-resilience programs.
• Serve as the primary executive point of accountability for DORA compliance, operational-resilience regulatory requirements, and related supervisory expectations across financial services and other regulated industries.
• Lead crisis management design and response frameworks — including crisis simulation, runbook governance, and executive escalation protocols.
• Design and oversee geo-resilience architectures — active-active, active-passive, and multi-region failover models.
• Sell and shape resiliency engagements at the CIO and CRO level — leading pursuits, authoring executive proposals, and presenting to boards, regulators, and senior risk committees.
• Maintain personal accountability for the commercial and delivery performance of sold engagements — including P&L ownership, risk management, and client satisfaction for the resiliency portfolio.
• Provide thought leadership on emerging resilience trends — including AI-driven resilience testing, chaos engineering, third-party concentration risk, and evolving regulatory frameworks (DORA, FRB SR 20-4, APRA CPS 230).
• Build and lead a high-performing resiliency practice — attracting talent, developing next-generation leaders, and scaling Accenture's go-to-market proposition in infrastructure resilience.

Skills

IT infrastructure

Operational resilience

BC/DR architecture

Crisis management

Executive leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Accenture is seeking an exceptional consulting leader to serve as our Infrastructure Resiliency Lead, a senior role with enterprise-wide ownership of IT resiliency strategy and execution. This position reports to CIO-level stakeholders and drives BC/DR, HA architecture, and geo-resilience across the firm's global infrastructure.

You'll lead executive engagements with CIOs and CROs, own P&L for resiliency engagements, and guide crisis management design, regulatory compliance, and emerging