Senior Domain Lead – Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

The client, a major organization operating in the critical infrastructure sector, is seeking an expert to provide strategic oversight and governance for its resilience capabilities. The role focuses on maintaining validated disaster recovery strategies and business continuity arrangements while balancing technical feasibility with business priorities. A key objective is to drive maturity improvement across processes and frameworks to ensure robust operational resilience.

Responsibilities include: defining and maintaining disaster recovery strategy and standards to ensure requirements are embedded in technical architecture; providing pragmatic guidance and cost-benefit analysis for recovery options, including failover patterns and replication strategies; aligning business continuity principles with resilience needs and contractual obligations across the organization; monitoring and reporting on resilience posture through dashboards, key risk indicators, and the review of recovery test results; coaching stakeholders on disaster recovery responsibilities and promoting a culture of resilience and documentation best practices; assessing current maturity levels using recognized models and defining a roadmap for continuous improvement and automation.

Requirements: 15+ years of professional experience in IT; 5+ years of proven experience in IT Resilience, Disaster Recovery, or Business Continuity; Master's degree or equivalent through professional experience; experience providing a formal letter of recommendation demonstrating a successful track record in establishing resilience environments; strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence without direct authority; fluency in English, French, and Dutch with a native level in either French or Dutch.

Nice to haves: knowledge of disaster recovery frameworks such as ISO 27031 or NIST 800-34; familiarity with business continuity management standards like ISO 22301; experience with multi-site and hybrid-cloud architectures; understanding of network, storage, replication, and failover patterns; awareness of NIS 2 resilience obligations.

Offer: start date 14/12/2026, duration until 31/12/2027, full-time, location Brussels, working model hybrid (up to 5 days per week onsite), contract open to both permanent employees and freelancers.