Principal Business Continuity Specialist

Principal Business Continuity Specialist

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In this hybrid role based at our Chicago Headquarters, you will serve as an advisor and leader to drive the organizational resilience, lead the second line of defense oversight of the Business Continuity Program (BCP). Ensure the BCP is aligned with industry best practices and regulatory requirements including Business Impact Analyses (BIA) and Recovery Plan development, Critical Business Process Testing, Incident Response and 2nd Line Disaster Recovery Governance.

Serve as the primary on‑call individual for incident response and lead on discussions during regulatory exams as it relates to BCP and Incident Response.

• Lead the development and continuous improvement of BIA and recovery plans, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities.
• Demonstrate judgement and critical thinking to business continuity tasks, challenging process tiering while balancing regulatory, financial, reputational risks, and technology dependencies to support restoration.
• Evaluate and leverage internal recovery solutions and external vendor capabilities to ensure resilience of critical business processes.
• Lead strategic initiatives to advance BCP maturity.
• Drive cross‑functional alignment with the technology division to ensure alignment between disaster recovery and business continuity programs.
• Assist technology team in critical business process testing program including test script development, test coordination, and reporting.
• Review and validate final technology reporting results from internal disaster recovery exercises, 3rd party vendors and service providers.
• Lead incident response efforts, making critical decisions and guiding executive teams through complex scenarios.
• Partner with lines of business on incident response tabletop exercises involving the incident response and executive management team.
• Deliver monthly metrics for executive management committee reporting such as preparing risk appetite scorecard metrics for the enterprise risk committee and monthly reporting to BRGC.
• Represent the organization in business continuity‑related regulatory and audit discussions, provide documentation and follow‑ups at meetings, and promote program awareness through meetings, workshops, and exercises.
• Stay abreast of emerging Business Continuity industry standards and evolving regulatory expectations.

Minimum – High School or Equivalent

Preferred – 4 Years Bachelor’s Degree in Business Continuity, Technology, Business Management, Business Operations or related

Minimum – 10 Years in Business Continuity, Incident Response, Disaster Recovery, Project Management or related

Preferred – Business Continuity Certification, ISO 22301 Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) or related

Typical hiring range: $95,100.00 to $ annually. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skills and knowledge.

Benefits include health care, vision, dental, 401k with employer match, annual performance bonus, work from home up to 3 days a week, paid parental leave, employee discount programs, paid personal and sick days, 11 paid holidays, education reimbursement.

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Seniority level:
Mid‑Senior level

Employment type:

Full‑time

Job function:
Information Technology, Strategy/Planning, and Consulting

Industries:
Banking, Capital Markets, and Financial Services