Lead Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Analyst

Location: San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; or West Los Angeles, CA will be considered.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Lead Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Analyst to lead enterprise BC/DR and operational resilience programs. This role will manage business impact assessments, recovery planning, risk assessments, testing, third-party continuity, issue remediation, metrics, and executive reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead annual BC/DR program activities, including BIA, BRP, DR plans, risk assessments, testing, and governance reporting.
• Maintain RTOs, RPOs, MADs, dependencies, recovery strategies, plans, and program documentation.
• Coordinate tabletop exercises, disaster recovery tests, failover exercises, and incident response activities.
• Evaluate testing results, identify gaps, track corrective actions, and ensure remediation.
• Perform BC/DR risk assessments and provide recommendations to improve operational resilience.
• Review third-party BC/DR plans, testing evidence, recovery capabilities, and residual risks.
• Develop dashboards, metrics, test summaries, issue reports, and executive-ready presentations.
• Partner with business, Technology, Information Security, Risk, Operations, and other stakeholders.
• Support audit and regulatory readiness and serve as a BC/DR subject matter expert.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Operational Resilience, Technology Risk, Information Security, Audit, or related areas.
• Strong knowledge of BIA, BRP, DRP, RTO, RPO, MAD, dependency mapping, recovery strategies, and DR testing.
• Experience coordinating with technology teams on application/infrastructure recovery, failover testing, and backup/recovery.
• Knowledge of FFIEC, NIST, GLBA, SOC, PCI, or related regulatory frameworks.
• Experience facilitating exercises, documenting results, collecting evidence, and tracking remediation.
• Strong communication, analytical, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and provide executive-ready reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Fusion Risk Management, LogicGate, Jira, ServiceNow, or other GRC/resilience platforms.
• Financial services, banking, payments, fintech, or other regulated-industry experience.
• BC/DR certifications such as CBCP, MBCP, CBCI, CISA, CISSP, CISM, or CRISC.

Education

• Bachelor s degree in Business Continuity, Emergency Management, Information Systems, IT, Risk Management, Business Administration, or related field.
• Equivalent relevant experience may be considered.