Senior Operational Resilience Manager

Expedia Expedia · Hospitality · London, Austin Domain 11, United Kingdom

This role focuses on designing, developing, and implementing an Operational Resilience Framework, including Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery programs, aligned with industry standards and regulatory requirements. It involves leading the DR program, establishing governance, driving dependency mapping, and embedding resilience by design with engineering, platform, and security teams. The role also includes facilitating simulations and developing team members.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support the design, development and implementation of the Operational Resilience Framework (ORF) outlining Business Continuity (BCM) and Disaster Recovery (DR) program requirements based on the organizations targeted maturity state and aligned with industry standards (ISO 22301, NIST, SOC2) and applicable regulatory requirements.
  2. Ensure the development of required policies relating to IT Disaster Recovery, the update of existing policies and standards, ensuring that they aligned across stakeholder's and partner programs.
  3. Lead the continued development and delivery of the Disaster Recovery (DR) program and support wider Operational Resilience workstreams to ensure alignment and enable technology teams to develop a deeper customer centric posture in managing disruptions
  4. Establish the overarching governance, structure, strategy development, planning and delivery of IT Disaster Recovery ensure iterative, foundation improvements that drive maturity and results.
  5. Drive conversations with technology teams focused on dependency mapping across applications, infrastructure, and operations to establish accountability, push progress and create alignment and momentum along a path to maturity

Skills

Required

  • significant experience in a lead role across one or more of the following areas: Technology Risk Management, Operational Resilience, Business Continuity Management, Incident Management and Crisis Management, IT Disaster Recovery
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders.
  • effective influencer, comfortable engaging with technical teams, business leaders, security professionals, risk and compliance teams and executive leadership
  • highly adaptable, skilled at identifying opportunities for collaboration and understand the importance of prioritising key pieces of work based on value and situation
  • skilled at building and implementing effective governance frameworks that drive accountability, awareness and embed a resilience culture
  • team first professional, highly collaborative with a learner mindset and strong focus on delivery
  • driven by challenges and the opportunity to apply your knowledge, learn constantly and adapt your approach where necessary to ensure the best outcome for the organization

Nice to have

  • 8+ years' experience in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Operational Resilience, Technology Risk or related discipline
  • proven success building and/or leading Disaster Recovery, programs in large-scale, real-time environments (preferably eCommerce)
  • successful track record of delivering results with proven and demonstratable high level of adaptability to meet the organizations needs
  • experience across technical and non-technical continuity practices and can break down operational silos by offering perspective, and clarity on ROI to drive collaborative and successful program outcomes
  • can learn, adapt and recalibrate your approach at speed with the ability to identify opportunities and risks
  • experienced and have worked within external compliance and audit frameworks (ISO 22301, NIST 800-34, SOC2, GDPR) and skilled in preparing evidence for assessments

What the JD emphasized

  • regulatory requirements
  • ISO 22301
  • NIST
  • SOC2