[Remote] Disaster Recovery Analyst, GRC

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Northwestern Medicine is a leader in the healthcare industry dedicated to providing exceptional service and innovative solutions. The Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Analyst plays a crucial role in ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery by participating in IS disaster response activities and maintaining policies and procedures for data integrity and recoverability.


Responsibilities

  • Work with IS and Business Continuity teams to ensure that the disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans support disaster recovery strategy and procedures
  • Maintains the overall plans for executing all DR procedures and understand their interdependencies
  • Reviews and supports critical DR parameters (RPO, RTO, Recovery Tier definitions) in line with the business needs of the institution
  • Maintains detailed DR communications and command and control plans through a change management process
  • Work with the IS architectural and technical staff to ensure that DR solutions are adequate, in place, maintained, and tested as part of the regular operational life cycle
  • Provide input in the design of systems to comply with DR requirements
  • Actively participates in change management and project prioritization (SDLC) meetings to provide input on whether DR Team’s requirements have been met in the change or project
  • Support and understand all testing necessary for a successful DR execution
  • Participate in all DR exercises. Coordinates, tests, and administers DR and resumption plans
  • Provide ongoing feedback for risk management, mitigation, and prevention
  • Provide DR cost estimated in the annual budgeting process
  • Regularly report DR activities to Team Lead and senior leadership
  • Help ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations, and ordinances
  • Must be able to take direction and work independently
  • Maintain confidentiality based on NMHC policies and regulations
  • Support critical business processes and establish resources required for the successful resumption of business operations in the event of a disaster
  • Implement a Business Impact Analysis and act as a contributor to DR plans
  • Participate in conducting business resumption interviews and planning sessions with customers
  • Comply with all recovery plans, including process and procedural standards to address routine, backup, redundancy and recovery architectures
  • Actively participate in an exercise, testing, maintenance and audit program to maintain confidence in a predictable and repeatable performance of recovery

Skills

  • 3+ years of experience in IS operations implementing and supporting application or technical solutions in a data center environment
  • Understanding of current recovery solutions, high availability architectures and virtual or converged architectures is needed, as is knowledge of crisis communication solutions
  • Must know basic IS network principles
  • Require excellent oral and written communication skills to convey plans, exercises, and activities
  • Must be able to interact with technical, non-technical, and management staff
  • Familiarity with business continuity program life cycle plans and source deliverables (e.g., risk assessments, BIAs, continuity planning) is essential
  • Knowledge of: Database management, Data storage and repository management, Microsoft Word, Access, Exchange, Excel, Project and VISIO, Disaster recovery methodologies and tools, Data network architectures including solid understanding of TCP/IP, Data processing, PC software, voice and data telecommunications
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, information protection (information security), or a related IS field
  • 3+ years of experience dedicated to disaster recovery operations and management or related IS experience
  • Familiarity with PMI standard methods and tools
  • Certification from DRII or BCI (ABCP, CBCP or CBCI is preferred)

Benefits

  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Loan forgiveness
  • 401(k) matching
  • Lifecycle benefits

Company Overview

  • Northwestern Medicine is the collaboration between Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine around a strategic vision to transform the future of health care. It was founded in 1972, and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://nm.org.

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Northwestern Medicine has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 75 in 2025, 66 in 2024, 70 in 2023, 78 in 2022, 35 in 2021, 39 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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