Operational Resilience and Disaster Recovery Architect

Role: Operational Resilience and Disaster Recovery Architect

Location: Edison, NJ (Onsite-Hybrid)

Duration: Contract

Description:

We are seeking a highly experienced Operational Resilience and Disaster Recovery DR Architect to provide senior leadership and subject matter expertise for a largescale resilience transformation program The role will focus on defining recovery strategies assessing resilience capabilities validating application recovery requirements and ensuring alignment with operational resilience objectives The successful candidate will work with business application infrastructure and architecture teams to design and implement robust disaster recovery and resilience solutions

Key Responsibilities

Lead the resiliency workstream and define enterprise Disaster Recovery DR and recovery strategies

Review resiliency requirements for critical business services and applications

Validate application recovery strategies and ensure alignment with business continuity objectives

Assess current recovery capabilities and identify gaps against Recovery Time Objectives RTO and Recovery Point Objectives RPO

Develop recommendations and remediation plans to address resilience gaps

Design and oversee the Disaster Recovery testing framework including test scenarios success criteria validation procedures and stakeholder participation

Review application infrastructure data and service dependencies to define effective recovery sequencing

Provide expert guidance on operational resilience DR standards governance models and regulatory expectations

Ensure recovery solutions are practical scalable and aligned with enterprise resilience objectives

Support architecture reviews design governance and executive stakeholder discussions

Lead resilience assessments and provide recommendations for enhancing recovery maturity

Mentor junior consultants and resilience analysts supporting the program

MustHave Skills

Operational Resilience

Disaster Recovery DR

Business Continuity Planning BCP

Enterprise Recovery Strategy

Recovery Time Objective RTO

Recovery Point Objective RPO

Disaster Recovery Testing Validation

Recovery Governance

Critical Application Assessment

Application Dependency Mapping

Infrastructure Resilience

Risk Assessment Gap Analysis

IT Service Continuity Management ITSCM

Senior Stakeholder Management

Recovery Runbooks Procedures

Good to Have Skills

Banking Financial Services experience

Regulatory frameworks DORA PRA FCA FFIEC ISO 22301

Cloud DR Resilience Azure AWS GCP

ServiceNow CMDB

Enterprise Architecture

Cyber Resilience Crisis Management

Data Center Recovery High Availability Design

Experience

8 years in Operational Resilience Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Technology Risk or Enterprise Infrastructure

Proven experience leading enterprisewide DR and resilience programs

Experience in regulated industries such as Banking Financial Services Insurance or Capital Markets

Spanish Language is needed