Disaster Recovery Architect

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Summary

The Disaster Recovery Architect is an evolving and exciting role that has significant impact defining and shaping the overall technical environment with a long-term perspective that delivers Disaster Recovery capabilities for BOK Financial. If you are looking for a job that combines a passion for innovation, an opportunity for growth, and a culture of teamwork, then you've come to the right place. 

Job Description

The Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Architect is a high impact individual contributor with primary responsibility for enterprise level resiliency architecture, standards, and governance across network, systems, storage, platform, and application domains. The role is accountable for defining and evolving disaster recovery, resiliency, and observability frameworks that align technology capabilities with business risk tolerance and availability expectations. This position is crucial in envisioning and overseeing a resilient technical architecture that enables BOK Financial to deliver critical financial products and services nation wide regardless of environmental hazards, infrastructure failures, cyber events, or operational disruptions. The Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Architect interfaces with end users, Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, Platform Engineering, Business Continuity, and senior IT leadership. The architect must be a thought leader who significantly influences the future technical environment through standards, patterns, and guiding principles rather than hands on implementation. This role partners with leading technology providers including network, storage, compute, telecommunications, cloud, applications and SaaS vendors to ensure capabilities align with BOK Financials' enterprise resiliency and availability objectives.

Team Culture

Our mission is to empower our company, teammates, and customers through the delivery of resilient, secure, and customer centric technology. We achieve this by combining deep technical expertise with a strong understanding of business priorities, risk tolerance, and operational resilience.

How You'll Spend Your Time

• You will define and evolve the enterprise resiliency framework, establishing standardized resiliency and disaster recovery patterns across infrastructure, platforms, and applications aligned to risk tiering and critical business services.
• You will envision and govern resilient technical architectures that enable systems to prevent outages, operate through failure, and recover within approved tolerances, rather than relying solely on reactive recovery models.
• You will establish and mature the enterprise observability framework and maturity model, ensuring monitoring, telemetry, and service health visibility are foundational components of resiliency and availability.
• You will define infrastructure and application resiliency expectations as non functional architectural requirements, including availability targets, dependency awareness, fault tolerance, and recovery patterns, and ensure they are embedded into architecture and design reviews.
• You will interface with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Platform Engineering, Business Continuity, and senior IT leaders to align resiliency standards with enterprise risk management and regulatory expectations.
• You will help develop and maintain disaster recovery testing and exercise frameworks, providing architectural guidance and best practice standards rather than executing individual tests.
• You will translate regulatory guidance, audit feedback, and business requirements into resiliency architectures, standards, and governance controls, promoting a strong culture of resiliency across the enterprise.
• You will partner with senior leaders to develop a multi year resiliency and observability roadmap that guides investment, prioritization, and platform evolution.
• You will educate technology teams on emerging resiliency, availability, and observability practices, ensuring consistency while allowing flexibility in execution.

Education & Experience Requirements

This level of knowledge is normally acquired through completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, plus 7–10 years of diverse IT experience, such as systems, infrastructure, platform, or solutions or enterprise architecture roles, or 10–14 years of equivalent enterprise IT experience with a strong emphasis on disaster recovery, resiliency architecture, availability engineering, and technology risk management.

Experience defining architecture standards, enterprise frameworks, or governance models.

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements