About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Role Summary
The DR Testing Delivery Lead is responsible for end-to-end ownership of Disaster Recovery testing strategy, planning, execution, governance, and stakeholder communication across business-critical applications and infrastructure. This role ensures organizational resilience by validating recoverability, meeting RTO/RPO objectives, and aligning DR capabilities with regulatory, audit, and business expectations.
Key Responsibilities
Define and own
enterprise DR testing strategy, roadmap, and operating model
Ensure alignment with
BCP, IT Risk, Cyber Resilience, and Regulatory requirements
Establish
standardized DR test frameworks, runbooks, success criteria, and reporting
Drive continuous improvement based on test outcomes, incidents, and audits
Lead
DR simulation, failover, and failback testing
(technology-led and business-led)
Coordinate
end-to-end DR exercises
across applications, infrastructure, cloud, and third-party vendors
Validate
RTO, RPO, MTD, and data consistency
across DR events
Ensure testing coverage for
planned, unplanned, and cyber-driven DR scenarios
Act as
single point of accountability
for DR testing delivery
Partner with
Application, Infrastructure, Security, Network, Cloud, and Business teams
Manage executive-level communications, dashboards, and risk escalations
Support
internal/external audits, regulatory reviews, and compliance attestations
Identify DR gaps, risks, and dependencies; drive remediation plans
Ensure audit-ready documentation and evidence management
Support incident post-mortems and lessons learned integration
Mandatory Technical Skills
Experience:
10–14 years total IT experience, with 5+ years in DR / IT Resilience / BCP delivery leadership.
Disaster Recovery & BCP
DR strategies (Active-Active, Active-Passive, Pilot Light, Backup & Restore)
RTO, RPO, MTD definitions and validation
DR runbooks, playbooks, and recovery sequencing
Infrastructure & Platforms
Data Centers, Virtualization (VMware), Storage replication
Network DR (DNS, load balancers, firewalls)
Backup and recovery tools (Commvault, NetBackup, Rubrik, Veeam)
Cloud & Hybrid DR
DR for
Azure
workloads
Cloud-native DR patterns (ASR, AWS Elastic DR, snapshots, multi-region)
Hybrid DR integrations
Application & Data
DR for Tier-1 / Tier-2 applications
Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, NoSQL)
Data integrity, consistency, and reconciliation validation
Good-to-Have Technical Skills
Ransomware recovery, clean-room recovery concepts
Integration with SOC, IR, and Cyber teams
DR test automation and orchestration tools
Scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash)
CMDB, ITSM, ServiceNow DR modules
Soft & Leadership Skills
Strong
delivery ownership and decision-making
Executive-level
communication and stakeholder management
Risk-based thinking and escalation judgment
Ability to manage
cross-functional, geographically distributed teams
Structured problem-solving and incident leadership
High attention to documentation, compliance, and governance
Coaching and mentoring DR coordinators and junior leads
Change management and organizational influence
Vendor and third-party DR governance
Certifications (Preferred / Nice to Have)
ISO 22301 / ISO 27001
ITIL, COBIT
Cloud certifications (Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Architect)
BCP/DR certifications (CBCP, MBCI – preferred)
Working with Us:
As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.
Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.
We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater
Reasonable accommodation
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at
MyHRHelp@ntrs.com
.
We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.
Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.
About Our Pune Office
The Northern Trust Pune office, established in 2016, is now home to over 3,000 employees. The office handles various functions, including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management, as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe.
Our Pune team takes our commitment to service to heart. In 2024, they volunteered more than 10,000+ hours into the communities where they live and work.
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