Technology Group Manager​/Director Resiliency & Availability

Position: Technology Group Manager / Director Resiliency & Availability
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Role Overview The Principal Technologist - Resiliency & Availability serves as Infrastructure Technology’s recognized authority for resiliency, availability, cyber recovery, disaster recovery, and data protection capabilities.

This role is responsible for assessing, advancing, and continuously challenging Infrastructure Technology’s resiliency, recovery, data protection, and availability capabilities across servers, storage, networking, databases, middleware, platform services, mainframe, and cloud technologies.

The position partners closely with architects, engineers, technology leaders, and application teams to ensure capabilities remain effective, aligned with evolving business requirements, and capable of meeting modern expectations for reliability, recoverability, and operational readiness.

The Principal Technologist maintains an enterprise-wide view of resiliency and recovery capabilities, identifying gaps, opportunities, and emerging risks while driving adoption of modern, best-in-class resiliency and recovery capabilities. The role serves as the authoritative source for understanding and communicating Infrastructure Technology’s resiliency posture, operational readiness, planned improvements, and recovery effectiveness.

The position also plays a key role in supporting audit, regulatory, and risk management activities, while helping ensure capabilities can be clearly demonstrated, validated, and continuously improved.

What You’ll Do Maintain a comprehensive understanding of resiliency, availability, cyber recovery, disaster recovery, and data protection capabilities across Infrastructure Technology.

Assess capability maturity and identify opportunities to improve resilience, recoverability, operational readiness, and customer outcomes.

Drive adoption of modern, best-in-class resiliency, recovery, and availability capabilities.

Partner with architects, engineers, technology leaders, and application teams to evolve capabilities as technologies, threats, customer expectations, and business requirements change.

Identify capability gaps, operational weaknesses, emerging risks, and improvement opportunities across infrastructure domains.

Influence strategic roadmaps and investment priorities that strengthen resiliency and recovery outcomes.

Develop business cases supporting resiliency, availability, cyber recovery, and data protection investments.

Quantify business value, operational benefits, customer impact, and risk reduction associated with improvement initiatives.

Create executive presentations, strategy documents, maturity assessments, capability guides, standards mappings, and supporting documentation.

Translate complex technical capabilities into clear, consumable content for executive, business, audit, risk, and regulatory audiences.

Serve as the primary authority for explaining current-state capabilities, planned improvements, operational effectiveness, and recovery readiness.

Challenge technology domains to…