Resilience Testing Team Lead

3 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Northern Trust Corporation Full time

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust Corporation is a globally recognized financial institution with a rich history dating back to 1889. We pride ourselves on providing innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions.

Role/Department

The Operational Resilience Manager will play a critical role in supporting the Operational Resiliency Program and will be part of a global team responsible for managing resiliency testing processes and activities. This will involve oversight of the development and enhancement, execution, and design of various resilience testing and exercise scenarios.

The key responsibilities of the role:

  • Manage and provide oversight on the development, execution, and design of complex Operational Resiliency tests and exercises to assess and enhance Northern Trust's ability to respond and recover from disruptions.
  • Integrate Operational Resiliency testing and exercises into the existing landscape of testing and exercises and understand how Northern Trust's various testing regimes promote Enterprise Resiliency.
  • Oversee the development and design of a comprehensive scenario inventory of severe but plausible scenarios.
  • Lead the design and execution of IBS Capability Testing Methodology including test objectives, scope, and success criteria.
  • Evaluate and analyze the results of end-to-end resilience exercises and tests and provide recommendations for identified resilience gaps.
  • Escalate gaps identified from resilience tests and exercises in a timely and effective manner.
  • Provide training and support to business unit leaders and other stakeholders on resilience scenario testing and methodology.
  • Coordinate and oversee exercises performed with 3rd parties and external partners.
  • Determine quality objectives, standards, and levels, with input from stakeholders, to establish the basis for quality outcomes.

Skills/Experience

  • Substantial experience in leading and performing testing and exercises with experience in Enterprise Resilience Tests and Exercises, business continuity and/or disaster recovery.
  • Extensive experience with Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning and high-level understanding of the threat landscape.
  • Previous experience of people management.
  • Deep knowledge of resilience testing and exercise methodologies including table-top exercises, functional exercises, isolated recoveries, and full-scale simulations.
  • Ability to consume functional and non-functional requirements and ensure complete test coverage.
  • Experience developing testing scorecards, and effectively and efficiently communicating test status at different levels of the organization.
  • Ability to lead test strategy, test plan, and test case compilation, ensuring that testing artifacts are complete, consistent, comprehensible, traceable, and feasible, that they confirm to standards, and that they provide complete coverage including positive, negative, functional, non-functional, performance, and security testing.
  • Demonstrated understanding of business and technology operations, resources, priorities, and policies.
  • Ability to lead teams and develop/maintain relationships with stakeholders from various lines of business and functional areas.
  • In-depth knowledge of Financial Services' business capabilities, applications, processes, and infrastructure required to deliver end-to-end capability.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies.

We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.



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