Technology Business Continuity and Resilience Analyst

Request Technology, LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Job summary

A prestigious financial company is seeking a Technology Business Continuity and Resilience Analyst to enhance its technology resiliency program, ensuring disaster recovery plans are current and tested. This role involves evaluating testing results, managing impact assessments, and liaising with IT to ensure compliance. Ideal candidates will have audit experience, strong project management skills, and a bachelor's degree, with a preference for financial services sector knowledge. A competitive salary and bonuses are offered for this full-time position in Chicago.

Qualifications

• Audit experience or vendor assessments required.
• 2 to 5+ years of relevant experience typical.
• Professional certification in business continuity or related area required or must be obtained within 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Administer and manage the DR Plan.
• Assess testing results and identify gaps in RTO/RPO.
• Monitor capabilities for Operational Recovery Enclave.

Skills

Audit experience

Project/time management

Communication skills

Relationship-building skills

Technical writing

Process analysis/improvement

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Technology Business Continuity and Resilience Analyst

Prestigious Financial Company is currently seeking a Technology Business Continuity and Resilience Analyst. Candidate will support the Director, Business & Technology Resiliency in maturing our technology resiliency program through monitoring planning, capabilities, and testing of our disaster recovery team as a second line function. This role would also be accountable for ensuring that DR plans are updated and tested as required by policy and conducting Technology Impact Assessments.

Base pay range $90,000–$115,000 per year. Additional compensation includes annual bonus. This position is bonus eligible and is not eligible for sponsorship.

Responsibilities:

• DR Plan Administration and Management
• Hold IT accountable for updates
• Assess testing results
• Identify gaps in RTO/RPO
• Technology Impact Assessment development and coordination
• Data collection and analysis
• Ongoing TIA support (data gathering and follow up)
• Testing recovery from cyber events
• Ongoing validation of BMR capabilities and ensuring proper systems are in scope
• Incorporate cyber threat results into resiliency risk for applications and business processes (link back to BMR capabilities)
• Participate and monitor DR exercises
• Control Self Testing as assigned
• Monitor capabilities for Operational Recovery Enclave (VDI in the Cloud?)
• Monitor risk of provisioned access, credentials, privilege and key availability

Qualifications:

• Audit experience or experience conducting vendor assessments is required
• Strong project/time management, communication, and relationship-building skills are essential
• Experience with Technology Impact Assessments or Business Impact Assessments
• Strong documentation, technical writing, and process analysis/improvement skills are essential
• Understanding of the financial services sector and the markets is preferred
• Experience with Microsoft Office desktop tools (Project, Word, Excel)
• Experience with Emergency Notification Systems
• Experience with Business Continuity Management Systems
• Bachelor’s degree required
• 2 to 5+ years of relevant experience is typical
• Professional certification in business continuity, disaster recovery, security, audit, crisis management or related area is required or must be obtained within 12 months (ABCP, CBCP, CISSP, CISA, and similar)

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology