AVP, Disaster Recovery

LPL Financial•Charlotte, NC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The AVP, Disaster Recovery leads the development, implementation, and ongoing improvement of LPL Financial’s enterprise disaster recovery program. The role provides leadership across technology and business teams to ensure critical systems, applications, infrastructure, and data can be recovered within established business and regulatory requirements. It leads enterprise recovery strategy, testing, risk identification, governance, and organizational readiness, partnering with infrastructure, application development, security, business continuity, risk, and business teams. The AVP also provides leadership during significant technology disruptions and communicates disaster recovery capabilities, risks, and performance to senior stakeholders. The position oversees recovery capabilities across data centers, cloud environments, applications, infrastructure, databases, networks, and third-party services. This is a hybrid role requiring onsite presence at the Fort Mill, South Carolina office two to three days per week.

Requirements

At least 10 years of progressive experience in disaster recovery, technology resilience, infrastructure, business continuity, or related enterprise technology disciplines.
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale disaster recovery programs in large, complex technology environments.
Extensive knowledge of disaster recovery strategy, architecture, RTO/RPO, risk assessment, recovery testing, and enterprise technology resilience.
Experience leading disaster recovery capabilities across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure.
Demonstrated experience leading major disaster recovery exercises, technology recovery events, risk remediation, and executive-level communications.
Strong knowledge of infrastructure architecture, including networks, compute, storage, databases, virtualization, cloud platforms, and application environments.
Strong understanding of enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery frameworks and regulatory expectations.
Experience reviewing business impact analyses and translating business requirements into technology recovery strategies.
Experience establishing and overseeing enterprise disaster recovery testing programs.
Ability to identify, assess, prioritize, and communicate technology recovery risks.
Experience establishing program metrics, KPIs/KRIs, reporting, and remediation tracking.
Strong leadership and decision-making skills during high-impact technology incidents.
Ability to influence technology and business leaders across organizational boundaries.
Experience partnering with risk, compliance, audit, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application organizations.
Excellent executive-level written, verbal, and presentation skills.
Strong organizational and program leadership skills, including the ability to manage competing priorities.
Experience managing third-party technology or recovery service providers.
Strong understanding of technology risk management and control environments.
Ability to translate complex technical recovery concerns into clear business risk and impact.

Nice To Haves

Experience within the financial services industry, particularly at a highly regulated financial institution.
Advanced knowledge of FFIEC, NIST, ISO 22301, and related disaster recovery or business continuity frameworks.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
Relevant certifications such as CBCP, MBCP, AWS, Azure, CISSP, or comparable technology or resilience credentials.
Experience supporting regulatory examinations or internal or external audits involving disaster recovery and operational resilience.
Experience with large-scale cloud transformation and cloud resiliency programs.
Experience leading disaster recovery programs supporting geographically distributed, highly available enterprise technology environments.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the enterprise disaster recovery program and strategy.
Establish disaster recovery standards, governance, testing practices, and recovery expectations aligned with business objectives, technology strategy, and regulatory requirements.
Review business impact analyses and risk assessments to identify critical systems and applications and establish appropriate RTO and RPO requirements.
Lead the enterprise disaster recovery testing program, including tabletop exercises, functional recovery tests, technical exercises, and large-scale simulations.
Assess testing results, identify material risks and recovery gaps, establish remediation priorities, and drive accountability for resolution.
Partner with technology architecture, infrastructure, application development, security, risk, and business teams to incorporate recoverability and resilience into technology solutions.
Provide oversight and direction for disaster recovery capabilities spanning data centers, cloud environments, applications, infrastructure, databases, networks, and third-party services.
Lead during significant outages and disaster events, coordinating recovery activities, priorities, escalation, and stakeholder communications.
Establish metrics and reporting to measure disaster recovery readiness, recovery performance, testing outcomes, risks, exceptions, and remediation.
Prepare and present program status, material risks, recovery capabilities, and performance to senior management and key stakeholders.
Manage relationships with third-party vendors supporting disaster recovery services, technology, and recovery capabilities.
Monitor regulatory requirements, industry standards, emerging risks, and technology trends and incorporate relevant changes into the program.
Partner with risk, compliance, audit, and technology teams to support regulatory examinations and address disaster recovery-related findings.
Develop organizational awareness, training, and guidance so teams understand their responsibilities during recovery events.
Provide leadership and technical or program guidance to disaster recovery engineers and partner technology teams.