Senior Director, IT Enterprise Resilience

NXP Semiconductors NV; Texas; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors NV is seeking a senior leader to own enterprise disaster recovery governance for the technology estate, drive the Minimum Viable Company program, and define cold start capabilities. You will chair the Recovery Owners' Council, manage the enterprise recovery calendar, and align IT recovery standards with business resilience priorities.

In this role you will coordinate across CIO towers, information security, operations, and audit stakeholders to deliver measurable readiness

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Information Technology, 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.
• Strong understanding of business impact analysis, recovery objectives, dependency mapping, and recovery validation methods.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional programs across CIO, CISO, business, manufacturing/site, legal, communications, audit, risk, and executive leadership.
• Crisis management, incident command concepts, playbooks, and executive reporting during disruptive events.
• Ability to translate complex dependencies into clear executive decisions, priorities, and action plans.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise disaster recovery governance for the technology estate, including recovery standards, dependencies, RTOs/RPOs, sequencing, ownership, validation, and exceptions.
• Lead the Minimum Viable Company program for technology recovery with cross-tower and site inputs from CIO teams and stakeholders.
• Define, maintain, and validate cold start capabilities to restore essential technology services when environments are degraded.
• Chair the quarterly Recovery Owners' Council to align standards, risks, findings, remediation actions, and readiness metrics.
• Build and manage the enterprise recovery exercise calendar (tabletop, simulation, full-scale, failover, cyber recovery, tests).
• Set IT recovery standards and validate them through exercises, after-action reviews, audits, and management reviews.
• Coordinate with Business Resilience & Crisis Management leaders to align disaster recovery, business continuity, crisis readiness, and playbooks.
• Lead recovery and restoration during incidents, ensuring objectives, resources, dependencies, risks, and decisions are clear.
• Report resilience readiness, recovery risks, exercise outcomes, audit results, and remediation progress to executives and audit committees.
• Drive continuous improvement of enterprise resilience through KPIs, lessons learned, and risk-reduction priorities.

Skills

Disaster recovery governance

Crisis management

Incident command

Stakeholder coordination

Information security

Risk management

Executive reporting

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Information Technology degree

15+ years leadership experience

Tools

ISO standards familiarity

CISSP/CISM/CBCP knowledge

Job description

Role Summary:

• Accountable for disaster recovery governance, business continuity alignment, the Minimum Viable Company program, cold start capability, crisis readiness, and the enterprise recovery exercise calendar.
• Coordinate Minimum Viable Company activity across CIO towers and sites on behalf of the CISO and CIO, translating business resilience priorities into technology recovery standards and measurable readiness outcomes.
• During disruptive events, lead recovery and restoration as the coordinated peer to the Incident Commander, providing disciplined execution, single-source recovery status, and clear reporting to the CISO, CIO, and audit stakeholders.

Job Responsibility:

• 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.

Job Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree or above in Information Technology, 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 tabletops, 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.
• Proven ability to lead through ambiguity and pressure, maintain calm and credible communications, and coordinate multiple teams toward measurable recovery outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; able to engage technical teams, senior executives, auditors, and external stakeholders with clarity and credibility.
• Collaborative, pragmatic leadership style with the ability to influence without direct authority across global teams, sites, and technology towers.
• Relevant certifications are preferred, such as CBCP, MBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer/Auditor, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, ITIL, or comparable credentials.
• Willingness to participate in crisis response, exercises, and time-sensitive recovery coordination across global time zones as business needs require.

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