Databarracks
Business Resilience Consultant (IT Continuity)
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Business Resilience Consultant (IT Continuity)
Senior Consultant – Business & IT Resilience
Location: Battersea, London (Hybrid) Salary: £45,000 – £55,000 + Benefits Hours: 37.5 per week Language: English (Required) Travel: UK-wide client visits (2–3 days/month)
About the Role
Ready to bridge the gap between business strategy and IT resilience? Join Databarracks as a Senior Consultant—the critical link that ensures businesses can thrive when disruption strikes.
This is no traditional business continuity role. You’ll deliver measurable resilience programmes, blending boardroom strategy with server-level execution. Your challenge: translate technical resilience requirements into effective business solutions—and simplify complex concepts for C-suite decision-makers.
Key Responsibilities
Client-Facing Excellence (70%)
- Lead resilience assessments, combining business continuity (BC) and IT service continuity (ISC) perspectives.
- Design and facilitate crisis management exercises to test business processes and technology recovery.
- Develop integrated BC/DR strategies ensuring alignment between business objectives and IT capabilities.
- Present to executives on resilience maturity and propose actionable recommendations.
- Mentor client teams on best practices in business-technology resilience integration.
Business Development & Innovation (20%)
- Contribute to proposals and tenders, leveraging technical BC/DR expertise to win new client work.
- Identify opportunities to expand client relationships through comprehensive resilience solutions.
- Support pre-sales activities with whitepaper research and client journey refinement.
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Internal Excellence (10%)
- Collaborate with engineering and support teams to ensure seamless resilience service delivery.
- Contribute to methodologies and intellectual property, refining company knowledge assets.
- Mentor junior consultants on advanced technical aspects of resilience.
Requirements
Essential Experience
- 2–5 years in business continuity, crisis management, or IT service continuity.
- Strong grasp of IT infrastructure, cloud resilience (AWS, Azure, GCP), and disaster recovery.
- Experience facilitating resilience exercises and delivering training to diverse audiences.
- Demonstrable project management skills managing complex, multi-stakeholder engagements.
- Ability to produce clear, compelling reports that influence business-critical decisions.
Technical Skills
- Deep understanding of RTO/RPO principles and their business-IT translation.
- Familiarity with ITIL, ISO 22301 (BCMS), and ideally ISO 27031 (IT Resilience).
- Knowledge of backup, replication, and recovery technologies (configuration is not mandatory).
- Broadcast awareness of ransomware preparedness and emerging digital threats.
Professional Qualities
- CBCI qualified or committed to achieving certification within 12 months.
- Natural curiosity in leveraging technology to achieve business outcomes.
- Diplomatic assertiveness—capable of challenging clients constructively.
- Thrives in a fast-evolving environment with a growth mindset.
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Why Work Here?
Professional Growth
- Clear career progression from Senior Consultant → Principal → Director, with structured competency development and regular one-on-ones.
Variety & Impact
- dynamic projects, from banking resilience testing to manufacturing boardroom strategy.
- Work alongside industry peers recognised for thought leadership in IT resilience.
Flexible Hybrid Model
- Autonomy over schedule + comprehensive benefits including private medical insurance and professional development budget.
About Databarracks
Databarracks is a tech-enabled BC/DR managed services provider based in London. We empower clients to focus on growth by ensuring systems (and, by extension, their operations) recover swiftly after disruption.
Culture: A flat hierarchy, hands-on mentorship, and recognition for individual initiative. Some of our CIOs and Managing Directors once held entry-level positions here—now you can too.
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