Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, VP - Technology Resilience and Enterprise Technology

About the role

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager with over $1.3 trillion in assets under management across real estate, private equity, credit, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, secondaries and hedge funds. Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTI) is the technology organization at the core of Blackstone’s businesses and growth initiatives. We design and deliver enterprise platforms and services that manage risk, create efficiency, and improve transparency across the firm and its global community of investors and portfolio companies. BXTI operates with an entrepreneurial mindset—collaborative, fast‑moving, and outcome‑driven—while maintaining the rigor required to support a complex global enterprise. We value leadership, accountability, and continuous improvement, and we expect our leaders to help the firm maintain its competitive edge.

Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTI) is seeking a highly experienced and strategic Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Leader to establish, drive, and continuously grow the firm’s technology resilience capabilities across infrastructure, applications, platforms, cloud services, and end-user technology. This role is responsible for ensuring that technology services can withstand, respond to, and recover from operational disruptions, cyber incidents, infrastructure failures, third-party outages, and other business-impacting events. This role includes being accountable for the overarching frameworks, processes, recovery strategies, and governance structures, while working closely with each technology tower to ensure adherence to program. Reporting into the firm’s Enterprise Technology function with a dotted line into the firm’s global Business Continuity Leader, this position owns technology recovery readiness across the technology estate and serves as the primary leader for technology continuity and disaster recovery governance. The successful candidate will build a culture of resilience, establish measurable recovery capabilities, drive accountability with service owners, and ensure that continuity planning evolves alongside the firm’s technology modernization efforts.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the technology resilience strategy, roadmap, standards, and operating model.
• Establish governance frameworks, policies, and controls that align business continuity, disaster recovery, operational resilience, cyber recovery, and crisis management capabilities.
• Define technology resilience metrics, key risk indicators, and executive reporting.
• Ensure resilience requirements are embedded into architecture reviews, platform design decisions, cloud adoption initiatives, and technology transformation programs.
• Drive continuous improvement based on testing outcomes, incidents, audits, and emerging threats.
• Ensure and track that every critical application, platform, infrastructure service, and technology team has documented, maintained, and approved recovery plans.
• Establish standards for Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), service criticality classifications, recovery dependencies, and minimum viable operating levels.
• Support the maintenance and validation of a technology service inventory that