Senior Director, IT Enterprise Resilience

NXP Semiconductors • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Accountable for disaster recovery governance, business continuity alignment, the Minimum Viable Company program, cold start capability, crisis readiness, and the enterprise recovery exercise calendar. Coordinate Minimum Viable Company activity across CIO towers and sites on behalf of the CISO and CIO, translating business resilience priorities into technology recovery standards and measurable readiness outcomes. During disruptive events, lead recovery and restoration as the coordinated peer to the Incident Commander, providing disciplined execution, single-source recovery status, and clear reporting to the CISO, CIO, and audit stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Continuity, Risk Management, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience across technology resilience, disaster recovery, business continuity, information security, infrastructure, enterprise IT operations, risk management, or crisis management.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise disaster recovery or cyber recovery programs for complex, global technology environments, including critical infrastructure, applications, network, identity, cloud, endpoint, data, and collaboration services.
• Strong understanding of business impact analysis, recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, dependency mapping, operational resilience, service continuity, and recovery validation methods.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional programs across CIO, CISO, business, manufacturing/site, legal, communications, audit, risk, and executive leadership stakeholders.
• Practical knowledge of crisis management, incident command concepts, playbooks, communications protocols, after-action reviews, and executive reporting during disruptive events.
• Ability to translate complex technical dependencies and recovery constraints into clear executive-level decisions, priorities, risk statements, and action plans.
• Experience designing and executing tabletops, simulation, full-scale, failover, backup and recovery, cyber recovery, and out-of-band communication exercises.
• Familiarity with international resilience, continuity, crisis, incident, and risk management standards such as ISO 22301, ISO 22316, ISO 22320, ISO 22361, ISO 31000, COSO ERM, and relevant industry requirements.
• Strong governance discipline with experience establishing standards, metrics, remediation tracking, audit evidence, management reporting, and continuous improvement mechanisms.
• Proven ability to lead through ambiguity and pressure, maintain calm and credible communications, and coordinate multiple teams toward measurable recovery outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; able to engage technical teams, senior executives, auditors, and external stakeholders with clarity and credibility.
• Collaborative, pragmatic leadership style with the ability to influence without direct authority across global teams, sites, and technology towers.
• Willingness to participate in crisis response, exercises, and time-sensitive recovery coordination across global time zones as business needs require.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree preferred.
• Relevant certifications are preferred, such as CBCP, MBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer/Auditor, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, ITIL, or comparable credentials.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise disaster recovery governance for the technology estate, including recovery standards, critical technology dependencies, recovery time objectives, recovery sequencing, ownership, validation expectations, and exception handling.
• Lead the Minimum Viable Company program for technology recovery, coordinating cross-tower and site-level inputs from CIO teams, information security, operations, business resilience, and other critical stakeholders.
• Define, maintain, and validate cold start capabilities that enable NXP to restore essential technology services when primary environments, identity, network, collaboration, or tooling capabilities are degraded or unavailable.
• Chair the quarterly Recovery Owners' Council to align recovery owners on standards, risks, dependencies, exercise findings, remediation actions, and readiness metrics.
• Build and manage the enterprise recovery exercise calendar, including tabletop, simulation, full-scale, failover, backup and recovery, cyber recovery, out-of-band communications, and site/tower-specific tests.
• Set IT recovery standards that CIO towers build to, and validate those standards through exercises, tests, after-action reviews, audit findings, management reviews, and measurable corrective actions.
• Coordinate with Business Resilience & Crisis Management leaders to align disaster recovery, business continuity, crisis readiness, playbooks, BIAs, ORAs, rosters, communication protocols, reporting, and Fusion platform data where applicable.
• During incidents or crises, lead recovery and restoration activities as a coordinated peer to the Incident Commander, ensuring recovery objectives, resource needs, dependencies, risks, and executive decision points are clear.
• Report resilience readiness, recovery risks, exercise outcomes, audit results, and remediation progress to the CISO, CIO, Management Team stakeholders, and audit committee forums as required.
• Drive continuous improvement of enterprise resilience capability through KPIs, lessons learned, third-party or internal audit inputs, regulatory and standards alignment, and pragmatic prioritization of risk reduction across technology services.

Benefits

• NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior