IT Service Continuity, Disaster Recovery & Testing Manager

Job Description

IT Service Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Testing Manager - Financial Services

Sterlings are partnered with an Investment Bank who are currently seeking an experienced IT Service Continuity and Testing Manager with a strong focus on ensuring resilience in line with regulation including Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).

This role will help strengthen the operational resilience by ensuring Disaster Recovery and Scenario Testing Events are systematically managed and risks highlighted and mitigated with lessons learned.

This person will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that IT processes, controls, and practices align with regulatory requirements, helping safeguard our digital platform and maintain compliance across all IT operations.

Key Requirements:

* Capability to develop and run Scenario Testing in line with regulatory expectations.

* Experience of working in a financial regulated environment

* Sufficient depth technical infrastructure knowledge and experience needed to be able to interpret and provide feedback of DR recovery plan

* Experience and understanding of the principles of what different types of technology do and how they work with each other, such as, but not limited to , networking, Virtual servers , data replication , databases and backup technology

* Ability to make quick and rational decisions (up to authorised level) during DR testing

* Ability to propose remedial/mitigation options for any issues/risk that enables management decisions