Disaster Recovery Technical Lead

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Disaster Recovery (DR) Technical Lead to lead the end-to-end technical delivery of a cloud-based DR enablement program across business-critical applications. The role is responsible for driving the overall DR strategy, technical governance, cloud resiliency, alignment, dependency coordination, and successful execution of DR enablement activities while acting as the primary technical interface between business, application, and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical execution of the DR enablement program across multiple applications.
• Define and validate target state DR architecture aligned to business RTO/RPO objectives.
• Drive technical decisions across cloud resiliency, recovery architecture, and dependency management.
• Review existing DR maturity and recommend recovery improvements.
• Lead current state assessments covering application architecture, dependencies, cloud resiliency, and recovery readiness.
• Review high availability, Multi-AZ deployment, tagging standards, and Infrastructure-as-Code readiness.
• Define implementation roadmap and phased DR progression strategy.
• Review and approve technical deliverables, designs, and recovery procedures.
• Govern execution across assessment, design, lower environment enablement, production progression, and validation phases.
• Coordinate activities across cloud platform, database, network, security, and application teams.
• Track technical risks, dependencies, design decisions, and implementation issues.
• Drive milestone completion and technical quality throughout the engagement.
• Lead walkthroughs, failover planning, dependency validation, and recovery exercises.
• Ensure fit-for-purpose functional recoverability validation following DR implementation.
• Review production readiness, runbooks, failback approach, and operational procedures.
• Act as the primary technical contact for customer architects, application owners, and delivery teams.
• Conduct technical governance meetings, design reviews, and executive status updates.
• Support technical decision-making throughout the engagement lifecycle.

Requirements

• Strong experience in Disaster Recovery architecture and implementation.
• Azure Cloud architecture and operations.
• High Availability and Multi-AZ design patterns.
• Cloud resiliency and business continuity planning.
• Application dependency mapping and recovery planning.
• Infrastructure-as-Code concepts (Terraform, ARM, Bicep).
• Azure services, including Compute, Networking, Storage, AKS, and PaaS services.

Skills

• Cloud DevOps, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD concepts.
• Deployment automation and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Cloud governance, tagging standards, and operational best practices.
• Application Integration.
• Enterprise application architecture (NET preferred).
• API and integration dependency analysis.
• Recovery runbook development and validation.

Preferred Skills

• Experience leading enterprise DR transformation programs.
• Financial Services or Insurance domain experience.
• Multicloud or hybrid cloud environments.
• Azure Site Recovery, Backup, and cloud resiliency solutions.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical teams.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical Plan (covering Medical, Dental, Vision).
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability Coverage.
• 401(k) Plan with Company match.
• Life Insurance.
• Vacation Time, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays.
• Paid Paternity and Maternity Leave.

Pay

This position includes a bonus or variable payout component based on individual and organizational performance. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, performance, and internal equity.