About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.  

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

WHO WE ARE

Northern Trust provides innovative financial services and guidance to corporations, institutions and affluent families and individuals globally. With over 130 years of financial experience and over 20,000 employees – we call partners – we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service. (Insert BU specific details)

WHO YOU ARE

As an IT Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Lead, you are a hands-on continuity leader who ensures technology resilience for mission-critical services in a dynamic, regulated global environment. You have experience in disaster recovery planning, failover testing, and cloud/hybrid resiliency strategies. You thrive under pressure, think beyond the playbook, and can translate technical risk into actional plans that keep the business running during any disruption.

You combine technical depth with leadership and governance expertise, ensuring compliance while enabling innovation. If planning and coordinating real-world and imagined failover tests, point in time recovery exercises of complex platforms and technologies excites you, this role is for you.

• YOU BRING
• Education & Certification
  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field
  • CBCP (Certified Business Continuity Professionals)
  • ITIL v3/v4 Foundation certification required; advanced certifications are a plus.
  • Cloud Certifications (Azure/AWS) désirable
• Experience
  • 8+ years of IT Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
  • Proven experience coordinating failover and recovery testing for on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments.
  • Experience with data recovery techniques including Point in Time Recovery (PiTR) exercises.
  • Strong understanding of information security services
  • Experience working in financial services or regulated industries strongly preferred.
• Knowledge & Skills
  • Expertise in disaster recovery planning, impact analysis, and resiliency architecture
  • Familiarity with VMware, cloud-native DR tools (Cutover), back-up solutions and orchestration platforms
  • Knowledge of network failover, replication strategies, and monitoring tools
  • Strong understanding of ITSM processes, especially change and incident management.
  • Exceptional planning and execution skills for DR stimulation and tabletop exercises
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management-able to influence executives and technical teams.
  • Analytical thinker with the ability to balance risk, resource availability and resiliency objectives.
  • You possess strong people skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with relevant regulations and standards related to business continuity, disaster recovery, and information security.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a partner on the Service Delivery & Operations (SD&O) team, you will be an integral part of a team focused on information security and technology. We cherish and nourish our diverse and inclusive culture and welcome you to help us further grow our community.

As an IT Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Lead, your key responsibilities will include:

• Lead Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Efforts for Cybersecurity
  • Develop and maintain BCDR goals and objectives aligned with Enterprise controls and standards.
  • Own BCDR governance for security platforms and critical applications
• Drive Testing & Validation
  • Coordinate failover and recovery testing for on-prem, hybrid and cloud systems for Cybersecurity as part of the enterprise led testing.
  • Conduct point in time recovery tabletop exercises for in scope security technology and platforms.
  • Facilitate BC, DR, and PiTR tabletop exercises.
• Ensure Operational Resilience
  • Partner with engineering, application owners and cloud teams to design resilient architectures.
  • Validate backup and replication strategies for data integrity and compliance.
  • Monitor emerging risks and recommend improvements to resiliency posture.
• Governance & compliance
  • Maintain BCDR documentation, SOPs, and audit ready evidence for regulatory compliance.
  • Ensure alignment with IT Tech controls and governance frameworks.
• Stakeholder Engagement
  • Serve as the primary liaison for risk, compliance, and executive leadership on BCDR matters.
  • Provide reports, dashboards, and executive updates on program health and test outcomes.
• Innovation & Transformation
  • Introduce automation, orchestration, and cloud-native DR solutions to reduce recovery time objectives (RTOs).
  • Support the global follow the sun operating model with consistent resiliency processes.
• Process Improvement:
  • Continuously evaluate and optimize BCDR processes to improve efficiency and reduce risks. 
  • Identify opportunities for automation within the BCDR playbooks. 
  • Monitor metrics and KPIs to identify areas for improvement and implement corrective actions.

Our tech stack: OKTA / CyberArk/ ServiceNow / Azure ADO/ Confluence / SharePoint / Power BI / Pivotal Cloud Foundry / Salesforce

Salary Range:

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Working with Us: 

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater 

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

 
We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.