Senior Lead, Infrastructure Disaster Recovery

Northern Trust Corp; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement benefits (401k)

Health and welfare benefits

Job summary

Northern Trust Corp is seeking a Sr Lead, Infra Disaster Recovery to design, implement, and manage enterprise DR programs across technology teams in the United States. You will identify risks, develop mitigations, and drive governance, testing, and automation to ensure resilience during disruptions.

The role requires deep infrastructure and application-architecture experience, 7+ years leading projects, and a track record with Agile delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years as a technical specialist or senior business analyst at enterprise scale.
• 7+ years leading teams or managing projects.
• Strong infrastructure and application architecture experience.
• Deep knowledge of DR methodologies, tools, and technologies.
• Experience with Agile delivery.
• Strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills.
• CBCP or similar certification preferred.
• Financial services or regulatory experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain DR plans, risk assessments, continuity strategies, and response procedures.
• Drive DR governance, metrics, compliance, risk, and issue remediation.
• Develop resiliency engineering solutions and automate recovery workflows.
• Influence architecture to improve recoverability and reduce recovery times.
• Implement DR orchestration tooling.
• Lead DR testing exercises and validate recovery capabilities.
• Coordinate with IT, Security, and application teams.
• Lead recovery efforts during actual disruptions.
• Deliver DR training and awareness programs.
• Continuously improve DR capabilities and processes.

Skills

Technical leadership

Team leadership

Agile delivery

Analytical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

CBCP certification (preferred)

Job description

Northern Trust Corp is seeking a Sr Lead, Infra Disaster Recovery to design, implement, and manage enterprise DR programs across technology teams in the United States. You will identify risks, develop mitigations, and drive governance, testing, and automation to ensure resilience during disruptions.

The role requires deep infrastructure and application-architecture experience, 7+ years leading projects, and a track record with Agile delivery.