Disaster Recovery Program Lead

Nutrien

Job Location:

Saskatoon - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Nutrien is a leading provider of crop inputs and services and our business results make a positive impact on the world. Our purposeFeeding the Future is the reason we come to work each day. Were guided by our culture of care and our core values: We put safety first. We act with integrity. We are stronger together. We deliver with excellence.

Through the collective expertise of our nearly 26000 employees we operate a world-class network of production distribution and ag retail facilities. We efficiently serve growers needs and strive to provide a more profitable sustainable and secure future for all stakeholders. Help us raise the expectation of what an agriculture company can be and grow your career with Nutrien.

We are looking for an experienced technically strong Disaster Recovery Program Lead to own and mature our enterprise Disaster Recovery strategy framework and execution model. You will establish and govern the Disaster Recovery program across the organization including standards templates testing frameworks measurement reporting and continuous improvement.

This is a technical leadership role (individual contributor no direct reports). The ideal candidate excels at influencing technical and business stakeholders to align Disaster Recovery readiness to our risk posture operational expectations and executive priorities.

This role does not manage Backup Services backups are just one of many tools in the Disaster Recovery toolbox. The Disaster Recovery Program Lead ensures that recovery capabilities processes and decision making extend far beyond backup technology alone.

What Youll Do:

Disaster Recovery Strategy Framework & Governance

Define maintain and continuously improve the enterprise Disaster Recovery framework standards and policies
Establish governance models compliance expectations and Disaster Recovery accountability across application infrastructure and business teams
Build and maintain Disaster Recovery templates playbooks runbooks and repeatable processes that scale across both cloud and on-prem workloads
Ensure DR practices align with enterprise availability objectives risk tolerances compliance standards and audit requirements

Program Ownership & Execution

Lead a cross functional multi-team Disaster Recovery program ensuring enterprise-wide alignment of recovery objectives (RPO/RTO) and testing cadence
Develop and govern Disaster Recovery testing strategies including tabletop exercises functional failovers full scale Disaster Recovery tests and cloud-native recovery patterns
Drive enterprise adoption of Disaster Recovery requirements and standards through stakeholder engagement enablement (guidance and training) and change management; partner with teams to close gaps and meet compliance expectations
Measure Disaster Recovery readiness and maturity across teams; deliver meaningful metrics dashboards and executive reports

Technical Leadership & Influence

Serve as the subject matter expert for all aspects of Disaster Recovery business system resiliency and recovery tooling
Guide application and service owners through scenario planning recovery architecture decisions and prioritization of gaps and remediations
Evaluate multiple technical options for recovery and recommend the most resilient and cost-effective approach including backup replication automation cloud-native recovery patterns and platform services
Partner closely with infrastructure cloud security and business continuity teams to ensure alignment across organizational boundaries

Continuous Improvement & Modernization

Drive adoption of modern Disaster Recovery approaches for hybrid cloud multi-region architectures and containerized or distributed applications
Identify operational gaps systemic risks and opportunities to leverage automation and orchestration for faster recovery
Maintain up-to-date industry knowledge of Disaster Recovery best practices cloud resiliency strategies and evolving threat landscapes
Act as a trusted advisor who challenges the status quo and raises the organizational bar for resilience

What Youll Bring:

Required Qualifications

710 years of hands-on experience in Disaster Recovery infrastructure resiliency cloud architecture or related areas
Proven experience designing governing or leading Disaster Recovery programs for complex hybrid enterprise environments
Strong technical background in data center infrastructure cloud services (AWS/Azure) networking compute storage and application dependencies
Experience building Disaster Recovery frameworks standards templates exercises and measurement dashboards
Strong understanding of RTO/RPO planning dependency mapping recovery prioritization and system criticality classification
Demonstrated ability to influence without authority across technology operations and business teams
Excellent communication skills with confidence presenting to both technical teams and senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with cloud-native Disaster Recovery patterns (e.g. cross-region failover managed replication IaC-driven recovery)
Experience coordinating Disaster Recovery activities across regulated mission-critical or multi-site industrial environments
Familiarity with Business Continuity Planning (BCP) concepts
Certifications such as ITIL CBCP AWS or Azure architecture certifications or similar resiliency-related credentials

Key Competencies

Strong leadership presence without formal authority
Systems thinker with the ability to break down complex environments
Highly organized structured and disciplined in execution
Confident facilitating workshops tests and post-mortems
Persistent resilient and able to hold teams accountable to enterprise expectations

Why This Role Matters

Resiliency has never been more this role you will establish the foundation that ensures our business can continue operating through outages incidents and unexpected disruptions. You will shape a Disaster Recovery program that is modern measurable repeatable and trustedsafeguarding our enterprise systems and the customers and operations they support.

Ready to make an impact with us Apply today!

The estimated salary that Indeed Glassdoor and LinkedIn lists does not represent Nutriens compensation structure. Nutrien is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status and other legally protected characteristics.

This job will remain posted until accordance with Nutrien policies you will be required to undergo a background check and may be required to undergo a substance test. While we appreciate all applications we receive only candidates under consideration will be must meet minimum age requirements as permitted by law.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

Nutrien is a leading provider of crop inputs and services and our business results make a positive impact on the world. Our purposeFeeding the Future is the reason we come to work each day. Were guided by our culture of care and our core values: We put safety first. We act with integrity. We are str...