Business Continuity and Operational Resilience Specialist

Business Continuity and Operational Resilience Specialist Job Snapshot
- Role:
Business Continuity and Operational Resilience Specialist

- Location:

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Industry: Banking
- Function:
Risk Management-Compliance

- Experience:

Minimum 7 years
- Job Type: Full Time
- Work Arrangement:
On-site

Dicetek LLC is seeking an experienced Business Continuity and Operational Resilience Specialist to support business continuity planning, operational resilience assessments and recovery preparedness in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The role focuses on strengthening organisational resilience through business impact analysis (BIA), critical service identification, dependency mapping, scenario testing and remediation governance. The successful candidate will maintain business continuity plans, establish impact tolerances, coordinate resilience exercises and track identified gaps through to remediation or management risk acceptance.

The position also involves supporting crisis-management governance, maintaining regulatory evidence and preparing operational resilience reports for relevant stakeholders. Candidates should have strong knowledge of business continuity management, operational resilience and scenario-based testing, together with experience working across technology, risk and business functions. Experience with in regulated financial services is preferred.

Country:
United Arab Emirates
- City:
Abu Dhabi
- Industry: Banking
- Function:
Risk Management-Compliance
- Salary:
Not disclosed
- Gender: No Preference
- Candidate Nationality:
Not specified
- Job Type: Full Time
- Work Arrangement:
On-site
- Required

Start Date:

Not specified

• Maintain and update business impact analyses for relevant business services and activities.
• Document operational impacts associated with potential business disruptions.
• Maintain business continuity plans and supporting recovery information.
• Identify critical business services and associated operational dependencies.
• Define and document impact tolerances for relevant services.
• Coordinate with business and technology stakeholders to validate continuity requirements.
• Support consistent documentation of recovery priorities and dependencies.
• Identify end-to-end dependencies supporting critical business services.
• Maintain dependency maps covering relevant business processes, technology and supporting services.
• Assess potential resilience gaps associated with critical service dependencies.
• Support alignment between business impact assessments and recovery planning.
• Document resilience requirements and identified areas requiring improvement.
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to maintain accurate dependency information.
• Plan and coordinate business continuity and operational resilience exercises.
• Develop scenario-testing activities based on relevant disruption risks.
• Coordinate simulations involving appropriate business and technology stakeholders.
• Support validation of continuity arrangements and recovery dependencies.
• Document exercise observations, outcomes and identified weaknesses.
• Facilitate lessons-learned reviews following completed exercises.
• Translate testing findings into practical remediation recommendations.
• Identify and maintain records of operational resilience gaps.
• Track corrective actions arising from impact assessments and scenario exercises.
• Coordinate remediation activities with responsible stakeholders.
• Monitor outstanding resilience risks and action completion.
• Maintain documentation of management risk acceptance decisions.
• Escalate unresolved resilience concerns through appropriate governance channels.
• Support ongoing visibility of remediation progress and residual risks.
• Support crisis-management governance…