Principal Consultant, Disaster Recovery

<p></p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Capco is seeking a Disaster Recovery Consultant to join our Banking & Payments practice in Toronto. In this role, you will help clients strengthen their technology resilience by developing, maintaining, and validating disaster recovery capabilities across business-critical applications, infrastructure, and technology services. You will work closely with technology, cyber, infrastructure, operational resilience, and business stakeholders to ensure recovery strategies are robust, well-tested, and aligned with regulatory expectations.</p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h2> <ul data-spread="false"> <li>Develop, maintain, and execute disaster recovery plans for critical applications, infrastructure, systems, data, and technology services, ensuring recovery readiness across complex environments.</li> <li>Coordinate disaster recovery planning and testing activities, defining recovery objectives, technical dependencies, recovery sequencing, test scope, execution readiness, and evidence collection.</li> <li>Support recovery activities across technology services, including application, infrastructure, data centre, and cyber recovery scenarios while collaborating with cross-functional technology and business teams.</li> <li>Track disaster recovery test outcomes, risks, issues, remediation activities, and unresolved gaps through to resolution or formal risk acceptance.</li> <li>Produce disaster recovery governance documentation, executive reporting, recovery dashboards, playbooks, and evidence to support assurance, audit, and operational resilience requirements.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></h2> <ul data-spread="false"> <li>Experience delivering Disaster Recovery or Technology Resilience programmes within financial services, banking, or highly regulated environments.</li> <li>Strong understanding of disaster recovery planning, recovery objectives (RTO/RPO), dependency mapping, recovery testing, governance, and operational resilience principles.</li> <li>Experience collaborating with application owners, infrastructure teams, cyber security, technology risk, business continuity, and senior stakeholders.</li> <li>Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to present recovery readiness and risk reporting to leadership audiences.</li> <li>Ability to manage multiple priorities while delivering high-quality documentation, reporting, and recovery coordination activities.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Bonus Points For</strong></h2> <ul data-spread="false"> <li>Experience supporting cyber recovery exercises or data centre recovery programmes.</li> <li>Knowledge of financial services regulatory expectations relating to operational resilience and disaster recovery.</li> <li>Experience with enterprise governance, risk, or resilience tooling.</li> <li>Industry certifications relating to Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Service Management, or Cloud technologies.</li> <li>Previous consulting experience delivering technology resilience engagements for Tier 1 financial institutions.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Why Join Capco</strong></h2> <ul data-spread="false"> <li>Deliver high-impact technology solutions for Tier 1 financial institutions.</li> <li>Work in a collaborative, flat, and entrepreneurial consulting culture.</li> <li>Access continuous learning, training, and industry certifications.</li> <li>Be part of a team shaping the future of digital financial services.</li> <li>Help shape the future of digital transformation across Financial Services.</l