The Disaster Recovery Lead, leads the Bureau’s approach to ICT disaster recovery and operational resilience for critical technology services. Reporting within the Planning and Architecture program, the role is responsible for ensuring the organisation has a planned, tested and funded approach to recovering critical IT services following disruption, including cyber incidents, infrastructure failures, supplier outages and natural hazards.

The role works across business and technology teams to identify critical services, dependencies, recovery priorities, recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives, and to translate these into practical recovery strategies, plans and investment proposals. It provides leadership for disaster recovery governance, scenario testing, lessons learned and continuous improvement, ensuring arrangements are aligned with enterprise risk, cyber security, service continuity and asset planning processes.

The successful candidate will bring strong experience in disaster recovery, service continuity or infrastructure resilience, together with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams in a complex operating setting. They will exercise sound judgement, manage competing priorities and provide expert advice that supports resilient service delivery across the Bureau.

The Disaster Recovery Lead, leads the Bureau’s approach to ICT disaster recovery and operational resilience for critical technology services. Reporting within the Planning and Architecture program, the role is responsible for ensuring the organisation has a planned, tested and funded approach to recovering critical IT services following disruption, including cyber incidents, infrastructure failures, supplier outages and natural hazards.





The role works across business and technology teams to identify critical services, dependencies, recovery priorities, recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives, and to translate these into practical recovery strategies, plans and investment proposals. It provides leadership for disaster recovery governance, scenario testing, lessons learned and continuous improvement, ensuring arrangements are aligned with enterprise risk, cyber security, service continuity and asset planning processes.

The successful candidate will bring strong experience in disaster recovery, service continuity or infrastructure resilience, together with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams in a complex operating environment. They will exercise sound judgement, manage competing priorities and provide expert advice that supports resilient service delivery across the Bureau.

The key duties of the position include:

- Lead the development, maintenance and continuous improvement of the Bureau’s ICT disaster recovery framework, plans, standards and governance processes for critical technology services.
- Identify and assess critical services, systems, infrastructure, suppliers and interdependencies to determine recovery priorities, risks, recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives.
- Ensure the organisation has a planned,



tested and funded approach to recovering critical IT services following disruption, with clear recovery strategies, capability roadmaps and investment requirements.
- Coordinate disaster recovery exercises, technical failover tests and simulation activities, capturing lessons learned and driving remediation and improvement actions.
- Work with cyber security, infrastructure, architecture, service management, delivery and business stakeholders to integrate disaster recovery requirements into solution design, operational processes and change planning.
- Provide expert advice to senior leaders on resilience risks, recovery capability gaps, funding priorities and implementation options to support informed decision-making.
- Establish and monitor performance measures, compliance obligations and assurance activities for disaster recovery readiness, including reporting on plan currency, test coverage and remediation progress.
- Lead, coach and coordinate staff, vendors and project teams contributing to disaster recovery and resilience outcomes, fostering collaboration and accountability across organisational boundaries.

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