Disaster Recovery & Availability Program Manager

Guidacent is a boutique consulting firm that helps clients solve complex business and technology challenges through experienced leadership, pragmatic execution, and a hands‑on delivery approach. We specialize in large-scale transformation initiatives, technology modernization, program leadership, and operational excellence.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Program Manager to lead a high-profile Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability (HA) program for a large enterprise client undergoing a significant data center modernization and resiliency transformation.

Guidacent is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead a large-scale Disaster Recovery and High Availability program focused on enhancing enterprise resiliency, business continuity, and operational readiness.

This role will oversee the migration and activation of a new colocation facility that will serve as a critical component of the client’s disaster recovery strategy. The engagement includes the migration of business‑critical applications and infrastructure, establishment of governance and operating standards, and implementation of repeatable DR and HA capabilities across the organization.

The successful candidate will provide end‑to‑end program leadership across application, infrastructure, network, operations, and business teams while driving planning, execution, governance, risk management, and organizational adoption.

This position requires an accomplished program leader with both strong business acumen and technical depth who can coordinate multiple work streams, manage complex dependencies, facilitate executive decision‑making, and drive successful outcomes in a highly visible environment.

• Lead the Disaster Recovery and High Availability program from initiation through operational transition.
• Develop and maintain an integrated program roadmap, execution strategy, milestones, and dependencies.
• Drive stakeholder alignment, program kickoff activities, charter development, and governance establishment.
• Establish program operating rhythms, executive communications, and reporting structures.
• Facilitate steering committee meetings and governance forums.
• Provide overall accountability for successful program delivery.

• Develop and promote enterprise‑wide DR and HA standards and best practices.
• Establish repeatable approaches for resiliency, failover, recovery validation, and operational readiness.
• Drive alignment on Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
• Partner with technical teams to ensure solutions align with business continuity requirements.
• Support the maturation and adoption of disaster recovery capabilities across the organization.

• Lead a structured, wave‑based migration approach that balances risk, readiness, and business impact.
• Coordinate migration sequencing across application, infrastructure, network, and operational teams.
• Drive readiness assessments, dependency validation, change planning, cutover preparation, and post‑migration support.
• Ensure migration activities are supported by documented runbooks, rollback strategies, testing plans, and operational procedures.

• Establish and maintain a comprehensive governance framework.
• Develop RACI models that clearly define ownership and accountability.
• Implement stage‑gate reviews and readiness checkpoints.
• Coordinate with Change Advisory Boards (CABs) and governance bodies to ensure controlled execution.
• Monitor program health through metrics, reporting, and risk management processes.

• Align stakeholders across application, infrastructure, network,…