Disaster Recovery Architect

Job Details:
Role: Disaster Recovery Architect

Location: Stamford CT

Position Summary
(DR) Architect designs implements and continuously matures Brands enterprise disaster recovery program across its hybrid application portfolio including SAP on-premises data centers and cloud environments. This role works with technical leaders in Infrastructure to architect backup replication and recovery strategies and translates that architecture into actionable runbooks inventories and executive-level reporting.

Key Responsibilities
Design and maintain DR architecture and recovery strategies across heterogeneous platforms (on-prem databases SAP cloud infrastructure and business-critical applications such as SCADA and MobileFrame) . Own and evolve enterprise DR runbooks including procedure tables escalation paths and recovery time/point objectives (RTO/RPO).

Assess and document backup landscape coverage across tools such as Cohesity and Azure Backup/Veeam identifying gaps and driving remediation plans

Build and maintain detailed technical inventories (application database and infrastructure dependencies) to support recovery planning and audit readiness.

Partner with database infrastructure and application teams to validate recovery procedures through regular DR testing and tabletop exercises

Track legacy platform risk (e-g- unsupported database versions) and drive modernization or compensating controls

Define and enforce DR standards policies and governance across the application portfolio.

Serve as a technical escalation point during actual DR events or failover exercises

Required Qualifications
Hands-on experience with enterprise backup platforms (Cohesity Veeam Azure Backup or equivalent)

Strong knowledge of database recovery strategies across at least one major RDBMS (Oracle SOL Server)

Experience supporting DR for SAP or other large-scale ERP environments

Familiarity with hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises data centers and cloud (Azure preferred)

Ability to translate complex technical detail into clear executive communication

Strong documentation discipline - runbooks inventories dependency mapping

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with manufacturing industrial or SCADA/OT environments

Exposure to compliance/audit frameworks tied to business continuity (SoX INIST)

Prior experience building DR dashboards or status reporting tools

Required Skills:

Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Enterprise Backup SAP ERP Veeam Scada Azure Backup Cohesity DR Architect DR Ops.