IT Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery (BC / DR) Lead (Chicago)

IT Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Lead

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.

As an IT Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Lead, you are a hands-on continuity leader who ensures technology resilience for mission-critical services in a dynamic, regulated global environment. You have experience in disaster recovery planning, failover testing, and cloud / hybrid resiliency strategies. You thrive under pressure, think beyond the playbook, and can translate technical risk into actional plans that keep the business running during any disruption.

You combine technical depth with leadership and governance expertise, ensuring compliance while enabling innovation. If planning and coordinating real-world and imagined failover tests, point in time recovery exercises of complex platforms and technologies excites you, this role is for you.

You Bring

• Education & Certification

Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field

8+ years of IT Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role

Expertise in disaster recovery planning, impact analysis, and resiliency architecture

As a partner on the Service Delivery & Operations (SD&O) team, you will be an integral part of a team focused on information security and technology. We cherish and nourish our diverse and inclusive culture and welcome you to help us further grow our community.

As an IT Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Lead, your key responsibilities will include :

Develop and maintain BCDR goals and objectives aligned with Enterprise controls and standards.

Coordinate failover and recovery testing for on-prem, hybrid and cloud systems for Cybersecurity as part of the enterprise led testing.

Partner with engineering, application owners and cloud teams to design resilient architectures.

Maintain BCDR documentation, SOPs, and audit ready evidence for regulatory compliance.

Serve as the primary liaison for risk, compliance, and executive leadership on BCDR matters.

Introduce automation, orchestration, and cloud-native DR solutions to reduce recovery time objectives (RTOs).

Continuously evaluate and optimize BCDR processes to improve efficiency and reduce risks.

Our tech stack : OKTA / CyberArk / ServiceNow / Azure ADO / Confluence / SharePoint / Power BI / Pivotal Cloud Foundry / Salesforce

Salary Range : $114,700 - 194,900 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

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.

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.