Senior Disaster Recovery Architect

Centene Corporation

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members by using technology to improve health outcomes around the world. As a diversified, national organization, Centene's technology professionals have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility. Position Purpose: Leads the design, implementation, and communication of enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery plans and processes that ensure the security and integrity of company data, databases, information systems, and technology. Conducts enterprise risk analysis to identify critical operations and systems that are core to continued business operations in the event of a disruption. Monitors and tests the plans and backup systems. Develops and deploys training, documentation, and communication of disaster procedures to the organization. Develops service level recovery standards and agreements with vendors. Owns resilience-related data governance within the System of Record and CMDB, ensuring accuracy, standardization, and authoritative sources for continuity and recovery data Leads and maintains a comprehensive IT disaster recovery (DR) program Architects, designs, and governs implementation testing of DR strategies Completes IT DR recovery procedures and work with technical teams to co-create IT DR recovery strategies, architectures and procedures Conducts IT DR awareness sessions. and drives for improvement of resilience practices Manages the IT DR calendar, incorporating the activities designed to monitor the effectiveness of the IT DR framework Collaborates with business and technology leaders and external business partners for the purpose of planning, directing, controlling, and maintaining an effective testing plan Provides architectural leadership in assessing, and communicating recovery environment requirements Leads risk mitigation processes, and facilitate resource contingency planning sessions with business teams Leads strategic discussions with vendors and suppliers. Develop, manage, execute contracts and agreements with vendors and suppliers Performs other duties as assigned Complies with all policies and standards

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science) and Requires 4 – 6 years of related experience. Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.
• Experience with traditional infrastructure and cloud technologies and architecture. required.
• Experience with resilient systems design principals. required.
• Knowledge of development toolset to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with administration, configuration, implementation of application systems or software in the healthcare domain preferred.
• One or more of the following skills are desired. Experience with Business Continuity Planning; Disaster Recovery
• Experience rationalizing, modeling, and governing large sets of structured data; defining authoritative sources, data quality controls, and ownership models.
• Ability to create and maintain standardized resilience taxonomies, metadata models, and reference data aligned across technology and business teams.
• Technical and business service mapping, Business Impact Analysis (BIA), and understanding of upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Working knowledge of industry frameworks and standards (e.g., ISO 22301, NIST, FFIEC, cloud resilience best practices).
• Translating regulatory and risk requirements into technical controls, standards, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience with resilience, continuity, CMDB, or GRC tools and platforms used to support Systems of Record.
• Intermediate - Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty
• Intermediate - Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Intermediate - Ability to work independently
• Intermediate - Demonstrated analytical skills
• Intermediate - Demonstrated project management skills
• Intermediate - Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure
• Intermediate - Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills

Responsibilities

• Leads the design, implementation, and communication of enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery plans and processes that ensure the security and integrity of company data, databases, information systems, and technology.
• Conducts enterprise risk analysis to identify critical operations and systems that are core to continued business operations in the event of a disruption.
• Monitors and tests the plans and backup systems.
• Develops and deploys training, documentation, and communication of disaster procedures to the organization.
• Develops service level recovery standards and agreements with vendors.
• Owns resilience-related data governance within the System of Record and CMDB, ensuring accuracy, standardization, and authoritative sources for continuity and recovery data
• Leads and maintains a comprehensive IT disaster recovery (DR) program
• Architects, designs, and governs implementation testing of DR strategies
• Completes IT DR recovery procedures and work with technical teams to co-create IT DR recovery strategies, architectures and procedures
• Conducts IT DR awareness sessions. and drives for improvement of resilience practices
• Manages the IT DR calendar, incorporating the activities designed to monitor the effectiveness of the IT DR framework
• Collaborates with business and technology leaders and external business partners for the purpose of planning, directing, controlling, and maintaining an effective testing plan
• Provides architectural leadership in assessing, and communicating recovery environment requirements
• Leads risk mitigation processes, and facilitate resource contingency planning sessions with business teams
• Leads strategic discussions with vendors and suppliers.
• Develop, manage, execute contracts and agreements with vendors and suppliers
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Benefits

• Centene offers a comprehensive benefits package including: competitive pay, health insurance, 401K and stock purchase plans, tuition reimbursement, paid time off plus holidays, and a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees