Senior Disaster Recovery Architect - Cyber Resiliency

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Position Purpose: Defines, leads, and executes enterprise-scale cyber and operational resilience capabilities. This includes ownership from initial assessment through implementation of scalable, repeatable processes and tools. This role ensures that critical services can withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents, technology failures, and data integrity events while meeting regulatory and audit expectations.

The architect partners across security, infrastructure, application, cloud, and business teams to embed resilience by design throughout the technology landscape and can influence the adoption of resilient practices at scale.

  • Plans and maintains a comprehensive IT disaster recovery (DR) program

  • Plans, designs, implements, and organizes testing of DR strategies

  • Conducts Business Impact Analysis (BIA) exercises to ensure all DR plans are kept in line with changing business requirements

  • Completes IT DR recovery procedures and work with technical teams to co-create IT DR recovery strategies, architectures and procedures

  • Conducts IT DR awareness sessions. Identify and make recommendations for improvement of existing processes and procedures

  • Manages the IT DR calendar, incorporating the activities designed to monitor the effectiveness of the IT DR framework

  • Collaborates with business unit staff members and external business partners for the purpose of planning, directing, controlling, and maintaining an effective testing plan

  • Provides leadership in assessing, and communicating recovery environment requirements

  • Manages risk mitigation processes, and facilitate resource contingency planning sessions with business teams

  • Leads discussions with vendors and suppliers. Develop, manage, execute contracts and agreements with vendors and suppliers

  • Performs other duties as assigned

  • Complies with all policies and standards

Education/Experience: A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science) and Requires 4 – 6 years of related experience.

Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.

Technical Skills:

  • Desired:

  • Proven leadership in Cyber Resilience and Operational Resilience programs

  • Direct experience designing and implementing data protection capabilities, tools, and processes to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber-attacks, including hands-on recovery from destructive malware or ransomware events

  • Deep and current knowledge of emerging cyber threats, their impact on critical services/applications/data, and experience influencing risk-based solutions across a large enterprise

  • Enterprise data protection, backup, and scalable recovery strategy development and execution

  • Cyber risk governance and regulatory compliance

  • Incident preparedness and cyber crisis management enablement

  • Experience with hybrid and multi-cloud cyber resilience (AWS, Azure, GCP)

  • Understanding of third-party (supply chain/cloud provider) cyber risk and recovery assurance capabilities

  • Development of cyber risk metrics, KPIs, and data quality governance

  • Familiarity with industry standards such as NIST and active participation in industry forums to influence evolving practices

Soft Skills:

  • Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty

  • Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions

  • Ability to work independently

  • Demonstrated analytical skills

  • Demonstrated project management skills

  • Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure

  • Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills

License/Certification:

  • EC-Council's Disaster Recovery Professional (EDRP)

  • Mile2's Certified Disaster Recovery engineer (C/DRFE)

  • ISO 22301 Certified Business Continuity Manager (CBCM)

Pay Range: $102,900.00 - $190,500.00 per yearCentene offers a comprehensive benefits package including: competitive
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