Disaster Recovery Expert

Role Overview

Disaster Recovery Expert – Supervisor/Lead at TAWANTECH. This role leads and oversees Disaster Recovery, IT Resilience, and Business Continuity activities for critical banking systems and technology services.

Role Purpose

Lead and oversee Disaster Recovery, IT Resilience, and Business Continuity activities for critical banking systems and technology services, ensuring recovery capabilities remain operational, compliant, and ready for execution.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Planning

• Develop and maintain DR strategies, plans, procedures, and recovery runbooks.
• Define and maintain RTO/RPO for critical systems.
• Conduct risk assessments and Business Impact Analysis (BIA) for DR readiness.

Operations & Testing

• Lead DR drills, simulations, failover/failback, and recovery testing.
• Ensure DR environments, backup, replication, high availability, and recovery capabilities are operational and compliant.
• Conduct root-cause analysis for DR issues.

Coordination & Stakeholder Management

• Coordinate with infrastructure, network, cybersecurity, application, database, cloud, and business teams.
• Manage DR vendors.

Governance & Compliance

• Ensure alignment with banking regulations, audit requirements, and IT governance.

Reporting & Leadership

• Provide regular readiness and risk reports to management.
• Lead and mentor DR and technical teams.

Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ years in Disaster Recovery, IT Resilience, Infrastructure, or Business Continuity.
• Mandatory banking or financial services experience.
• Previous Lead or Supervisor experience preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong knowledge of DR architecture, data centers, cloud, virtualization, backup, replication, and high availability.