Principal Consultant, Disaster Recovery

📋 Description

• Develop, maintain, and execute disaster recovery plans for critical applications, infrastructure, systems, data, and technology services, ensuring recovery readiness across complex environments.
• Coordinate disaster recovery planning and testing activities, defining recovery objectives, technical dependencies, recovery sequencing, test scope, execution readiness, and evidence collection.
• Support recovery activities across technology services, including application, infrastructure, data centre, and cyber recovery scenarios while collaborating with cross-functional technology and business teams.
• Track disaster recovery test outcomes, risks, issues, remediation activities, and unresolved gaps through to resolution or formal risk acceptance.
• Produce disaster recovery governance documentation, executive reporting, recovery dashboards, playbooks, and evidence to support assurance, audit, and operational resilience requirements.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience delivering Disaster Recovery or Technology Resilience in financial services.
• Strong RTO/RPO, dependency mapping, testing, governance, and resilience principles.
• Experience collaborating with application owners, infra, cyber, risk, and continuity.
• Analytical, communication, and stakeholder skills to present recovery readiness to leadership.
• Able to manage multiple priorities with quality documentation and recovery coordination.
• Experience supporting cyber recovery exercises or data centre recovery.
• Knowledge of regulatory expectations for operational resilience and DR.
• Experience with enterprise governance, risk, or resilience tooling.
• Industry certifications in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Service Management, or Cloud technologies.
• Previous consulting experience delivering technology resilience engagements for Tier 1 financial institutions.

🎁 Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits Coverage – 100% company-paid health, life, and disability insurance effective from Day 1 of employment.
• Retirement Savings Program – RRSP with the option of receiving a matching employer contribution.
• Virtual Health Care and EFAP available for employees and eligible dependents.
• Enhanced parental leave, wellness reimbursement, and a company-sponsored new parent gift.
• Business Coach from Day 1 to support your career growth, alongside a comprehensive learning and development programme.