Operational Resilience and Disaster Recovery Architect
Contract W2
Contract Corp To Corp
Contract Independent
12 Months
No Travel Required
Hybrid
Depends on Experience


ThinkNorth LLC
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Job Details
Skills
- Operational
- Resilience
- Architect
- Disaster Recovery
Summary
Hi,
Role: Operational Resilience and Disaster Recovery Architect
Location: Edison, NJ (Onsite Hybrid)
Duration: 12+ Months
Note: Spanish language fluency is must.
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly experienced Operational Resilience and Disaster Recovery DR Architect to provide senior leadership and subject matter expertise for a largescale resilience transformation program The role will focus on defining recovery strategies assessing resilience capabilities validating application recovery requirements and ensuring alignment with operational resilience objectives The successful candidate will work with business application infrastructure and architecture teams to design and implement robust disaster recovery and resilience solutions
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the resiliency workstream and define enterprise Disaster Recovery DR and recovery strategies
- Review resiliency requirements for critical business services and applications
- Validate application recovery strategies and ensure alignment with business continuity objectives
- Assess current recovery capabilities and identify gaps against Recovery Time Objectives RTO and Recovery Point Objectives RPO
- Develop recommendations and remediation plans to address resilience gaps
- Design and oversee the Disaster Recovery testing framework including test scenarios success criteria validation procedures and stakeholder participation
- Review application infrastructure data and service dependencies to define effective recovery sequencing
- Provide expert guidance on operational resilience DR standards governance models and regulatory expectations
- Ensure recovery solutions are practical scalable and aligned with enterprise resilience objectives
- Support architecture reviews design governance and executive stakeholder discussions
- Lead resilience assessments and provide recommendations for enhancing recovery maturity
- Mentor junior consultants and resilience analysts supporting the program
MustHave Skills
- Operational Resilience
- Disaster Recovery DR
- Business Continuity Planning BCP
- Enterprise Recovery Strategy
- Recovery Time Objective RTO
- Recovery Point Objective RPO
- Disaster Recovery Testing Validation
- Recovery Governance
- Critical Application Assessment
- Application Dependency Mapping
- Infrastructure Resilience
- Risk Assessment Gap Analysis
- IT Service Continuity Management ITSCM
- Senior Stakeholder Management
- Recovery Runbooks Procedures
Good to Have Skills
- Banking Financial Services experience
- Regulatory frameworks DORA PRA FCA FFIEC ISO 22301
- Cloud DR Resilience Azure AWS Google Cloud Platform
- ServiceNow CMDB
- Enterprise Architecture
- Cyber Resilience Crisis Management
- Data Center Recovery High Availability Design
Experience
- 8 years in Operational Resilience Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Technology Risk or Enterprise Infrastructure
- Proven experience leading enterprisewide DR and resilience programs
- Experience in regulated industries such as Banking Financial Services Insurance or Capital Markets
Best Regards,
Sam
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- Posted 3 days ago
Company Info
About ThinkNorth LLC
ThinkNorth is a full-service provider of contingent staffing in support of technology solutions for industry leading Enterprise Technology Projects.

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