Associate Principal, Technology Resilience

*****THIS POSITION IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR VISA SPONSORSHIP*****

Summary

Directly support the Director, Business & Technology Resiliency in maturing our technology resiliency program through monitoring planning, capabilities, and testing of our disaster recovery team as a second line function. This role would also be accountable for ensuring that DR plans are updated and tested as required by policy and conducting Technology Impact Assessments.  

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Leads Technology Resiliency Function 

• DR Plan Administration and Management

• Holds IT Accountable for updates

• Assess testing results

• Identifies gaps in RTO/RPO

• Ensures plan ownership

• Technology Impact Assessment

• Development

• Coordination

• Data Collection

• Analysis

• Ongoing TIA Support (data gathering and follow up)

• Testing OCC recovery from Cyber Events

• Ongoing validation of BMR capabilities and ensuring proper systems are in scope

• Incorporate cyber threats result in resiliency risk for applications and business processes (link back to BMR capabilities)

• Participates and monitors DR exercises

• Control Self Testing as assigned

• Monitor Capabilities for Operational Recovery Enclave (VDI in the Cloud)?

• Monitor risk of provisioned access, credentials, privilege and key availability

Supervisory Duties

• N/A

Qualifications

• Audit Experience or Experience Conducting Vendor Assessments is required

• Strong project/time management, communication, and relationship-building skills are essential

• Technology Impact Assessments or Business Impact Assessments

• Strong documentation, technical writing and process analysis/improvement skills are essential

• Understanding of the financial services sector and the markets is preferred

• Strong project/time management, communication, and relationship-building skills are essential

Technical Skills

• Experience with Microsoft Office desktop tools (Project, Word, Excel).

• Experience with Emergency Notification Systems

• Experience with Business Continuity Management Systems

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree Required

• 2 to 5+ Years Relevant Experience is Typical

Certificates and/or Licenses

• Professional certification in business continuity, disaster recovery, security, audit, crisis management or related area is required or must be obtained within 12 months (ABCP, CBCP, CISSP, CISA, and similar)

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

Benefits

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
• Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
• Generous PTO and Parental leave
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information.

Compensation

• The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education.
• In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
• We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers
• All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed.

Salary Range

$97,200.00 - $134,500.00

Incentive Range

This position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award, for which the target range is listed above (see Incentive Range). The amount of such award, if any, will be based on various factors, including without limitation, both individual and company performance.

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Step 3
If you are called in for an interview, a representative from OCC will contact you to set up a date, time, and location. 

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer