Senior Tech Resilience Lead

Dis-Chem Pharmacies Limited; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical aid

Provident fund

Staff account

Job summary

Dis-Chem Pharmacies Limited is seeking a Technology Resilience Lead to design and drive the organization’s strategy ensuring critical technology services are robust, secure, and recoverable during disruptions.

The role leads enterprise-wide resilience planning across disaster recovery, business continuity, and technology risk, partnering with technology, cybersecurity, and business leaders to embed resilience into architecture and operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, engineering or related field.
• ISO 22301 Lead Implementer/Auditor advantageous.
• CBCP (Certified Business Continuity Professional) advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of disaster recovery (DR) and continuity-of-operations capabilities.
• Oversee resilience posture assessments and drive remediation plans across infrastructure, applications, and third-party technology providers.
• Establish and manage crisis response and technology incident management processes in coordination with cybersecurity and business continuity stakeholders.
• Ensure technology resilience requirements are embedded into architecture standards, change management, and system development lifecycles.
• Partner with business units to validate recovery requirements, conduct impact analyses, and ensure alignment with critical business services.
• Lead organization-wide resilience testing, simulation exercises, and after-action reviews.
• Monitor regulatory developments and ensure compliance with relevant resilience, operational risk, and cyber regulations.
• Provide executive reporting that communicates resilience risks, readiness, trends, and performance metrics.
• Cultivate a culture of resilience awareness through training, communications, and stakeholder engagement.

Skills

Disaster recovery planning

Business continuity

Regulatory compliance

Incident management

Stakeholder engagement

Cloud architectures

Cybersecurity basics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/Engineering or related field

Job description

Dis-Chem Pharmacies Limited is seeking a Technology Resilience Lead to design and drive the organization’s strategy ensuring critical technology services are robust, secure, and recoverable during disruptions.

The role leads enterprise-wide resilience planning across disaster recovery, business continuity, and technology risk, partnering with technology, cybersecurity, and business leaders to embed resilience into architecture and operations.