Lead, Infra Disaster Recovery

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

The Disaster Recovery Lead will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing our disaster recovery programs. Your expertise will be critical in identifying potential risks and developing strategies to mitigate the impact of disasters. You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure our business remains secure and resilient in the event of any unforeseen disruptions.

Key Responsibilities

As an expert, the Disaster Recovery Lead will be part of a team to deliver end-to-end technical resiliency solutions to the organization, utilizing the latest technologies and leveraging automation mechanisms for reducing recovery times. The Lead should have a solid understanding of program management and leadership skills to engage various teams. Responsibilities for this role include:

• Disaster Recovery Planning: Develop and maintain comprehensive disaster recovery plans, including risk assessments, continuity strategies, and response procedures.

• Risk Assessment: Identify potential threats and vulnerabilities, conducting risk assessments to evaluate their impact on business operations.

• Disaster Recovery Testing: Plan, execute, and evaluate regular disaster recovery exercises to validate the effectiveness of recovery plans and make necessary adjustments.

• Coordination: Collaborate with IT, security, and other relevant departments to ensure alignment between disaster recovery and security strategies.

• Documentation: Maintain accurate documentation of disaster recovery plans, procedures, and incident response protocols.

• Incident Response: Lead disaster recovery efforts in the event of a disruption, coordinating the response and recovery activities.

• Training and Awareness: Develop and provide training to employees on disaster recovery and business continuity procedures to enhance preparedness.

• Continuous Improvement: Stay updated on industry best practices, emerging technologies, and evolving threats to continually improve disaster recovery capabilities.

• Develop effective presentations for strategy and approach for management and stakeholders.

• Creation and delivery of information/plans should be convincing and professional, with use of pivots, charts, graphics to support the content/message.

• Ability to create presentations to various stakeholders like application owners and infrastructure managers.

• Ability to convert data and historic information into convincing information using presentations and charts.

• Effectively deliver content, adjusting tone to the target audience in timely manner. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• 10+ years as a technical specialist, senior business analyst, operating at enterprise scale.

• 7+ years as a Team lead or project manager role that can engage and deliver projects to completion.

• Practical experience in both technology infrastructure and application development architectures.

• Proven knowledge of disaster recovery methodologies, tools, and technologies.

• Infrastructure and service architecture & engineering experience, including functional and technical requirements gathering, and solution development.

• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration.

• Practical experience operating in an Agile development environment.

• Ability to work effectively under pressure and in high-stress situations.

• Certification such as CBCP (Certified Business Continuity Professional) or equivalent is a plus.

• Financial or Regulatory domain experience a plus

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.