Principal Consultant, Disaster Recovery

Capco • Toronto, ON

2d • CA$153,000 - CA$197,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Capco is seeking a Disaster Recovery Consultant to join our Banking & Payments practice in Toronto. In this role, you will help clients strengthen their technology resilience by developing, maintaining, and validating disaster recovery capabilities across business-critical applications, infrastructure, and technology services. You will work closely with technology, cyber, infrastructure, operational resilience, and business stakeholders to ensure recovery strategies are robust, well-tested, and aligned with regulatory expectations.

Requirements

• Experience delivering Disaster Recovery or Technology Resilience programmes within financial services, banking, or highly regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of disaster recovery planning, recovery objectives (RTO/RPO), dependency mapping, recovery testing, governance, and operational resilience principles.
• Experience collaborating with application owners, infrastructure teams, cyber security, technology risk, business continuity, and senior stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to present recovery readiness and risk reporting to leadership audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while delivering high-quality documentation, reporting, and recovery coordination activities.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting cyber recovery exercises or data centre recovery programmes.
• Knowledge of financial services regulatory expectations relating to operational resilience and disaster recovery.
• Experience with enterprise governance, risk, or resilience tooling.
• Industry certifications relating to Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Service Management, or Cloud technologies.
• Previous consulting experience delivering technology resilience engagements for Tier 1 financial institutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute disaster recovery plans for critical applications, infrastructure, systems, data, and technology services, ensuring recovery readiness across complex environments.
• Coordinate disaster recovery planning and testing activities, defining recovery objectives, technical dependencies, recovery sequencing, test scope, execution readiness, and evidence collection.
• Support recovery activities across technology services, including application, infrastructure, data centre, and cyber recovery scenarios while collaborating with cross-functional technology and business teams.
• Track disaster recovery test outcomes, risks, issues, remediation activities, and unresolved gaps through to resolution or formal risk acceptance.
• Produce disaster recovery governance documentation, executive reporting, recovery dashboards, playbooks, and evidence to support assurance, audit, and operational resilience requirements.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits Coverage – 100% company-paid health, life, and disability insurance effective from Day 1 of employment.
• Retirement Savings Program – Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with the option of receiving a matching employer contribution.
• Virtual Health Care and Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP) available for employees and eligible dependents.
• Enhanced parental leave, wellness reimbursement, and a company-sponsored new parent gift.
• Business Coach from Day 1 to support your career growth, alongside a comprehensive learning and development programme.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed