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Senior Advisor, IT Disaster Recovery and Resilience
Posted 2 days ago
About the role
- Senior IT resilience advisor governing disaster recovery, continuity, and technology risk. Strengthening recovery capabilities for iA Financial Group’s insurance and wealth-management services.
Responsibilities
- Act as owner of the IT recovery framework and influential leader of the corporate technology recovery program
- Establish, maintain, and evolve the IT recovery governance framework, roles, responsibilities, RACI, and escalation mechanisms
- Align the program with business continuity, risk management, cybersecurity, and operational resilience objectives
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, internal control frameworks, and industry best practices
- Present program progress, risks, and issues to governance bodies
- Maintain the master IT recovery strategy for critical infrastructure, cloud environments, and strategic vendors
- Align business objectives, RTO/RPO targets, and technology capabilities
- Assess resilience and recovery capabilities of critical vendors
- Define standards, templates, and practices for IT recovery plans
- Support development and updating of recovery plans for critical platforms and assets
- Maintain dependency mapping across applications, infrastructure, technology platforms, and critical business services
- Establish annual exercise calendars, disaster scenarios, and success criteria
- Coordinate backup, failover, and recovery testing with internal teams and strategic vendors
- Oversee post-exercise reviews and follow-up action plans
- Develop performance indicators, executive dashboards, and program maturity metrics
- Monitor platform strategies, recovery playbooks, and recovery guides
- Coordinate risk assessments, audit reporting, and mitigation initiatives
- Serve as primary contact during operational resilience, business continuity, and IT recovery audits
- Support decision-making during major incidents affecting critical technology services
- Evolve recovery strategies following cyber incidents with information security teams
Requirements
- More than 10 years of experience in information technology, particularly in infrastructure, IT operations, architecture, and business continuity
- At least 5 years of experience in disaster recovery or operational resilience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Technology Administration, or another relevant field
- Influential leadership and ability to mobilize diverse stakeholders
- Rigor, organizational skills, and ability to manage complex cross-functional initiatives
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent communication, writing, and presentation skills with technical, business, and executive audiences
- Proven experience coordinating cross-functional programs involving multiple teams, business units, and strategic vendors
- Strong knowledge of Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, RTO/RPO, Risk Management, Cybersecurity, ITSM, and IT Governance concepts
- Understanding of hybrid technology environments including VMware, Azure, SaaS, PaaS solutions, and outsourced technology services
- Excellent command of French, written and spoken
- Intermediate English proficiency
- Knowledge of the financial services and insurance industry is considered an asset
- CBCP or MBCI certification is considered a significant asset
Benefits
- Competitive employee benefits
- Employee experience focused on well-being
- Professional development opportunities
- Career growth
- Autonomy and initiative
- Collaborative culture and knowledge sharing
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