Technology resilience leader challenging recovery capabilities at Sun Life, a global financial security and health company. Advising governance teams on disaster recovery, cloud resilience, and systemic technology risk.
Responsibilities
Provide independent challenge of technology resilience across infrastructure, applications, data, cloud/hybrid environments, and critical service dependencies
Assess alignment between business impact tolerances, RTO/RPO expectations, disaster recovery design, recovery architecture, and demonstrated recovery capability
Identify systemic technology resilience risks, including architecture vulnerabilities, single points of failure, recoverability gaps, and untested dependencies
Challenge the design, realism, and completeness of technology recovery testing, including end-to-end, failover/failback, production-like load, and manual recovery testing
Validate recoverability evidence, including test results, recovery runbooks, backup/restoration evidence, application dependency mapping, and remediation artifacts
Document challenge outcomes and require formal issue capture for capability gaps, unsupported assumptions, or recovery weaknesses
Establish and monitor technology resilience KRIs, RAS measures, thresholds, escalation triggers, and trend analysis
Prepare insights for senior governance forums on resilience posture, systemic issues, remediation progress, and accountable risk decisions
Support regulatory, audit, and management reporting by linking technical recovery evidence to business criticality and operational resilience outcomes
Partner with DBTS, Cyber, Enterprise Architecture, Operational Resilience, BCM, Crisis Management, TPRM, and Business Group Risk teams
Advise on major technology change, cloud transformation, outsourcing, and architecture decisions affecting resilience or recoverability
Provide technical coaching and quality review to managers and SMEs performing domain-specific DR and backup/data resilience challenge
Requirements
University degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
Typically 10+ years of experience in technology risk, disaster recovery, technology resilience, infrastructure/application recovery, operational resilience, cyber resilience, or related disciplines
Professional certifications such as CBCP/MBCI, CRISC, CISM, CISSP, ITIL, PMP, AWS/Azure architecture/resilience, or equivalent are assets
Strong technical expertise in application recovery, infrastructure resilience, DR architecture, cloud/hybrid recovery, production-like testing, data resilience, and cyber recovery
Strong understanding of operational resilience, BCM/DR lifecycle, OSFI E-21, OSFI B-13, risk appetite, KRIs, issue management, and 2LOD challenge practices
Ability to review technical evidence and translate findings into business risk, remediation actions, and governance decisions
Excellent stakeholder management, written communication, presentation, and constructive challenge skills
Benefits
Hybrid work arrangement with flexibility to work from the office and virtually
Sabbatical Program offering up to 6 weeks off every five years
Care Days for self-care or care of others
Sick Days
Supportive, flexible, and inclusive work environment
Opportunities to learn, grow, and succeed
Participation in various incentive plans for eligible employees, with payment subject to individual and company performance
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