Technical Execution Lead

Job Title: Disaster Recovery/BCP Technical LeadDuration: 12+ Months (Possible extension)Location: New York, NY 10286Onsite Role (4 days a week)Responsibilities:Lead will manage the resiliency strategy and execution - setting governance, driving DR and contingency capabilities, and ensuring measurable readiness and rapid recovery.Establish resiliency strategy and governance, including policy frameworks, standards, control objectives, and success metrics aligned to business impact and risk appetite.Create disaster recovery roadmaps; ensure KPIs and recovery objectives (RPO/RTO) are defined, measured, and reported across platforms.Oversee design, publication and ongoing maintenance of contingency planning policies and procedures tailored to an Azure public cloud environmentEnsure adoption across lines of business and platforms.Direct development of system-specific contingency plans, setting expectations for roles/responsibilities, recovery objectives, restoration priorities, failover patterns, and executive communication protocols.Institutionalize a program for contingency training and exercises (tabletop, functional, and full-scale), including plan testing, after-action reviews, and remediation tracking with transparent ownership and target dates.Set-up executive-level resiliency testing reporting and dashboards for readiness posture, drill performance, plan coverage, corrective action closure, and remediation backlogLead continuous improvement: analyze cross-platform lessons learned, prioritize enterprise-level remediation and investments, and update policies/standards accordingly.Education/Experience:10 + years in technical management, reliability/operations, or platform engineering with 7+ years leading resiliency/DR/BCP at enterprise scale in cloud environments.Demonstrated experience designing and delivering Azure resiliency programs across multiple platforms/business lines, including architecture standards, program governance, and executive reporting.Experience with Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, cross-region replication, and hybrid DR strategies, as well as leading enterprise-wide DR testing & cloud failover exercises.Expertise in defining and enforcing KPIs/SLAs, recovery objectives (RPO/RTO), and control adherenceExperience presenting to senior leadership, risk committees, and auditors/regulators.Deep familiarity with standards and frameworks (e.g., NIST SP 800-34, ISO 22301, ISO 27031) and operational best practices (e.g., ITIL), with proven ability to translate them into actionable controls and operating procedures.Preferred:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field requiredMaster's degree strongly preferred.Advanced certifications are a plus (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert, CBCP, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer, ITIL v4).