Lead Disaster Recovery & Operational Resilience Architect

Envision Technology Solutions; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Envision Technology Solutions seeks a Lead Business Continuity Architect to define, lead, and mature enterprise-wide continuity and resilience capabilities. You will guide DR strategy across Azure, AWS, hybrid, and on‑prem environments, aligning recovery with business priorities and regulatory requirements.

You will drive automation, IaC, and runbooks, lead DR tests and exercises, and influence executives to adopt resilience initiatives across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in technology architecture, resiliency, or operational continuity.
• 7+ years leading Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery programs in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience designing recovery solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on‑premises environments.

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 RTOs, RPOs, availability requirements, and application dependencies.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to conduct BIAs, 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 failover/failback, validation, 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 with cyber recovery and incident response plans.
• Establish DR testing programs and run 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 regulatory, audit, risk, and industry requirements.
• Monitor emerging threats and regulatory developments impacting resilience strategies.
• Serve as enterprise SME for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery and mentor technical teams.

Skills

BCP & DR Strategy

Enterprise Resilience

Recovery Automation

IaC & Scripting

Cloud & Hybrid Architecture

Stakeholder Influence

Regulatory & Audit Alignment

Tools

IaC Tools

Job description

Envision Technology Solutions seeks a Lead Business Continuity Architect to define, lead, and mature enterprise-wide continuity and resilience capabilities. You will guide DR strategy across Azure, AWS, hybrid, and on‑prem environments, aligning recovery with business priorities and regulatory requirements.

You will drive automation, IaC, and runbooks, lead DR tests and exercises, and influence executives to adopt resilience initiatives across the organization.