Disaster Recovery Architect

Key Responsibilities: Define enterprise Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and Operational Resilience strategies, standards, and roadmaps. Design DR architectures across Azure, AWS, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Define and manage Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), application dependencies, and recovery priorities. Conduct Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and develop recovery strategies, runbooks, and playbooks. Architect high availability, backup, replication, immutable backup, and secure recovery solutions. Lead DR automation and orchestration, including failover, failback, recovery validation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and scripting. Integrate cyber recovery strategies with cybersecurity and incident response processes. Plan and lead DR testing, tabletop exercises, failover simulations, and business continuity exercises. Establish recovery KPIs, resilience metrics, audit controls, and remediation plans. Collaborate with business, infrastructure, cloud, security, and application teams to improve enterprise resilience. Provide technical leadership, governance, and guidance on industry standards, regulatory requirements, and resilience best practices.

Required Qualifications: 10+ years of experience in technology architecture, infrastructure, disaster recovery, or operational resilience. 7+ years of experience leading enterprise Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery programs. Proven experience designing DR solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Strong knowledge of BIA, recovery strategies, RTO/RPO management, and application dependency mapping. Experience with large-scale DR testing, recovery automation, and resilience modernization. Strong stakeholder management, technical leadership, and communication skills.