Senior Specialist, Disaster Recovery and Operations Control (Montreal, Ottawa, or Toronto)

About CMHC

The work you do and the work we do together matters. We come to work every day with a common purpose: to contribute to a well-functioning housing system.

At CMHC, we hold ourselves accountable for our results and support our colleagues in their achievements. We thrive on collaboration, connecting across CMHC and involving the right people to get our work done. We have flexibility, in how, when, and where we work, within the boundaries of the business needs and the nature of your role. Our leadership style is guided by trust, where our leaders favour an adaptive approach based on the needs of their teams.

Join us and be part of a team that's committed to making a real difference and be part of something meaningful.

What’s in it for you

We’ve got the purpose, the people and the perks you need for a fulfilling career. Here’s the comprehensive and generous benefits you get when you’re a permanent employee:

• Annual Paid vacation.
• Annual individual performance incentive.
• Defined benefit pension plan.
• Comprehensive group insurance plan to support your well-being from day one.
• Support towards your personal and professional growth with training, mentorship and more. 
• An inclusive workplace culture and environment.

About the role:
Reporting to the Delivery and Operations Control team as a Senior Specialist, you will be working with various stakeholders, information technology teams, and project teams. You will be responsible for managing and maturing our Disaster Recovery capabilities that protect our assets and position us for rapid recovery of services. You will also execute oversight of change activities through established processes to render the organization’s Disaster Recovery and operational capabilities compliant to regulatory guidelines and control standards, demonstrated through measured improvements in our maturity. 
 
What you’ll do: 

• Develop, document, maintain, test, evolve, and measure the organization’s Enterprise Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Integrate disaster recovery capabilities with key processes and functions, such as Major Incident Management and response planning, Business Continuity Management, Risk Management, and Data Governance.
• Oversee technology changes (i.e. platform/software implementations and upgrades, software enhancements, decommissioning, and integration), including influencing architectural design, and oversight of implementation, ensuring operational control compliance throughout. 
• Collaborate closely with the Business Continuity function and business stakeholders through business impact analysis, exercise planning, fulfilment, and action planning based on test results.
• Lead real world major incidents (both physical and technological) to resolution based on established processes and plans, including leadership communications, and recommending DR plan activation, as appropriate.
• Respond to formal inquiries from our customers and regulators with a focus on Disaster Recovery subject matter based in evidence of our capabilities, action plans in progress, and improvement plans.
• Ensure proposed technical solutions meet the requirements of business impact analysis, such as alignment with RTO and RPO requirements.
• As a Disaster Recovery subject matter expert, partner with audit & compliance teams to deliver fact-based audit & assessment reports through interviews, provision of technical evidence, validating potential audit exceptions and recommendations to support management responses.    

What you should have:

• A bachelor’s degree in information technology, information systems, computer science, or in a related field. An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered. 
• A minimum of seven (7) years practical experience in IT infrastructure, networks, applications, and Enterprise Disaster Recovery. 
• Experience planning, exercising, and improving cloud-based and on-prem disaster recovery and major incident scenarios.
• Experience managing real world major incident scenarios through the major incident/problem/change lifecycle. 
• Demonstrated experience in overseeing the work of several IT third party providers through effective relationship management, governance, risk management, cloud operations management, compliance reporting, issues management, and IT general controls management.
• Exceptionally strong oral and written communication skills (Bilingual French and English), deep experience developing and maintaining technical documentation, communicating with internal/external stakeholders, distilling highly complex technical information into business impact terms, and briefing senior leadership. 
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements (i.e. OSFI) and industry standards related to disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Experience in application of Agile and ITIL frameworks. 

 
It would be great if you also had:

• Insurance/Financial Institution experience in complying with regulatory requirements.
• Professional designations in cloud platform and on-prem infrastructure management, disaster recovery, Microsoft Azure, other relevant designation, or certification.
• Demonstrated experience in monitoring or overseeing large scale IT programs and/or projects. 
• Experience in transformational change and managing related service area impacts.

Posting closing date: Note, the competition will remain active until filled.

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion 

We’re committed to employment equity and encourage women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, veterans and persons of all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions to apply. We also welcome applications from non-Canadians who are eligible to work in Canada.

CMHC is an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought – and of people – are recognized, valued, and considered essential to achieving our mission.

Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion 

What happens after you apply 

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