SQM-GPS-Infra-DR Test Lead

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 worlds 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 22000 partners we serve the worlds 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:1014 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.

Wed love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the worlds 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 .

We hope youre 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 3000 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 2024 they volunteered more than 10000 hours into the communities where they live and work. Learn more.