Disaster Recovery Architect

BOK Financial•Tulsa, OK

11d•Onsite

About The Position

The Disaster Recovery Architect is an evolving and exciting role that has significant impact defining and shaping the overall technical environment with a long-term perspective that delivers Disaster Recovery capabilities for BOK Financial. If you are looking for a job that combines a passion for innovation, an opportunity for growth, and a culture of teamwork, then you've come to the right place. The Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Architect is a high impact individual contributor with primary responsibility for enterprise level resiliency architecture, standards, and governance across network, systems, storage, platform, and application domains. The role is accountable for defining and evolving disaster recovery, resiliency, and observability frameworks that align technology capabilities with business risk tolerance and availability expectations. This position is crucial in envisioning and overseeing a resilient technical architecture that enables BOK Financial to deliver critical financial products and services nation wide regardless of environmental hazards, infrastructure failures, cyber events, or operational disruptions. The Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Architect interfaces with end users, Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, Platform Engineering, Business Continuity, and senior IT leadership. The architect must be a thought leader who significantly influences the future technical environment through standards, patterns, and guiding principles rather than hands on implementation. This role partners with leading technology providers including network, storage, compute, telecommunications, cloud, applications and SaaS vendors to ensure capabilities align with BOK Financials' enterprise resiliency and availability objectives.

Requirements

Completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, plus 7–10 years of diverse IT experience, such as systems, infrastructure, platform, or solutions or enterprise architecture roles, or 10–14 years of equivalent enterprise IT experience with a strong emphasis on disaster recovery, resiliency architecture, availability engineering, and technology risk management.
Experience defining architecture standards, enterprise frameworks, or governance models.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve the enterprise resiliency framework, establishing standardized resiliency and disaster recovery patterns across infrastructure, platforms, and applications aligned to risk tiering and critical business services.
Envision and govern resilient technical architectures that enable systems to prevent outages, operate through failure, and recover within approved tolerances, rather than relying solely on reactive recovery models.
Establish and mature the enterprise observability framework and maturity model, ensuring monitoring, telemetry, and service health visibility are foundational components of resiliency and availability.
Define infrastructure and application resiliency expectations as non functional architectural requirements, including availability targets, dependency awareness, fault tolerance, and recovery patterns, and ensure they are embedded into architecture and design reviews.
Interface with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Platform Engineering, Business Continuity, and senior IT leaders to align resiliency standards with enterprise risk management and regulatory expectations.
Help develop and maintain disaster recovery testing and exercise frameworks, providing architectural guidance and best practice standards rather than executing individual tests.
Translate regulatory guidance, audit feedback, and business requirements into resiliency architectures, standards, and governance controls, promoting a strong culture of resiliency across the enterprise.
Partner with senior leaders to develop a multi year resiliency and observability roadmap that guides investment, prioritization, and platform evolution.
Educate technology teams on emerging resiliency, availability, and observability practices, ensuring consistency while allowing flexibility in execution.