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Accountabilities
- Perform DR planning, development, program execution, maintenance and testing.
- Manage risk, controls and compliance management, supporting BC/DR audit and examination activities, and
development & maintenance of policies, standards & procedures that are aligned with BNM requirement and
the best industry standards.
- To coordinate with all business and support teams bank-wide in any DR related activities.
- Ensure that IT DR for all critical applications have been fully documented and tested based on their respective
DR cycle requirement.
- Review and maintenance of disaster recovery policy, strategy, standards and processes that can be used to
recover all the critical system within required time frames.
- Provide periodic or ad-hoc reporting and tracking of disaster recovery related issues and remediation
activities.
- Coordinate with all the relevant support teams and business to be able to support the recovery objectives of
the organization.
- Assist Head DR in designing, coordinate and execute BCP/DR annual test exercises for critical business
processes, and produce test reports including lessons learned. Coordinate follow up on lessons as required
based on the Post Test Report.
- Review the Business Criticality Definition (BCD), recovery priorities, timelines, and strategy for proper
sequence of recovery components.
- Continuously (minimally yearly) review existing and proposed plans for recoverability effectiveness and
identify opportunities for improvement.
- Assist Crisis Management / Incident Management teams during service disruption events and contribute to process improvement initiatives.
Job Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields.
- Relevant Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery certification, i.e. CBCP/ABCP or DRCS etc.
- Experience in any of the following BCP framework components:
- Business Resumption Planning
- Crisis Management Planning
- Incident Response Planning
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Plan Exercising/Testing
- Conducting BIAs
- Financial Services/Banking industry experience is advantageous
- Knowledge and experience in performing assessments aligned with the best practices
- Ability to work independently, effectively manage competing demands and priorities
- Ability to interact with a variety of internal and external people in a professional manner that creates
confidence in his/her knowledge and abilities and helps foster mutually satisfactory resolution to control gaps
and issues
- Ability to build positive relationships across multiple stakeholders, senior leadership team, and department
heads, etc.
- Must be a critical thinker, with strong problem-solving skills
