Senior Program Manager – Data Centre and Disaster Recovery

Job Summary:

The Senior Program Manager – DC/DR Resiliency is responsible for planning, managing, and overseeing the bank’s enterprise-wide Data Centre (DC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy, ensuring full compliance with regulatory and internal risk standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement the bank’s Data Centre (DC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy, ensuring alignment with business continuity and resilience objectives.
• Lead end-to-end program management for DC/DR initiatives, including planning, risk assessment, testing, and post-implementation reviews.
• Ensure the bank's resilience programs align with and comply with relevant regulations, such as those from the UAE Central Bank.
• Develop and maintain business continuity plans, and ensure the bank can recover critical services following an incident
• A strong understanding of banking operations, control assurance frameworks, and resilience methodologies is crucial.
• Define and monitor Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for all critical systems.
• Oversee periodic DR drills and failover testing, ensuring readiness and continuous improvement of resilience capabilities.
• Collaborate with technology, operations, cybersecurity, and various business units to identify and mitigate potential risks and integrate resilience practices into daily operations.
• Drive infrastructure modernization and data centre migration projects to enhance scalability, performance, and redundancy.