Participate in effective planning, design, conduct, and evaluation of both internal and external resiliency simulations and testing in accordance with the firm’s business and technology resiliency standards as well as global regulatory frameworks
Support across all aspects of exercise project management, spanning the entire engagement lifecycle (i.e., plan, design, conduct, and assess) to include scheduling meetings, reserving venues, facilitating discussions, and providing senior leader project updates
Coordinate with key stakeholders across the firm to develop tailored, all-hazards simulation scenarios that achieve business, resiliency, technology, and/or cyber incident response objectives
Support post-exercise after-action analysis, reporting, and assessment, synthesize corrective actions, implement tracking/monitoring of progress, and design future simulations to validate improvements
Identify and address opportunities in process, procedures, tooling and knowledge management
Support overall team strategy and capability uplift initiatives to drive rapid maturity
Key Qualifications
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple, parallel, complex engagements collaboratively with a diverse set of stakeholders, subject matter experts, and senior leaders to build requirements and execute across a core set of project milestone
Preferred 3+ years of experience in planning, developing, and coordinating incident response playbooks, runbooks, or other key operational processes across a large organization. Knowledge of, and experience working within, the financial services sector is preferred
Familiarity with how key international financial systems operate, to include an understanding of the current threat landscape, operational resiliency considerations, and possible systemic risk scenarios. Experience formulating and/or interpreting threat and risk analyses of cyber adversary techniques, technology disruptions, terrorist attacks, severe weather, and other major hazards
Experience developing and presenting briefings to senior leaders in addition to large group meeting facilitation and logistics planning
Excellent writing skills and ability to communicate effectively. Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office and related technologies. Background in metrics development, data analysis & visualization, and automation is a plus.
The ideal candidate must demonstrate exceptional organizational skills necessary to plan, design, and coordinate the development of simulations and data center tests to help ensure crisis management and incident response procedures are integrated across the firm
Ability to perform occasional weekend work to support data center testing events