Assistant Vice President - Business Continuity and Cyber Resiliency

Reposted 2 Months Ago
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Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, IND
Hybrid
Senior level
Information Technology • Database • Consulting
The Role
Lead enterprise business continuity, disaster recovery, and cyber resiliency programs. Define RTO/RPO, drive BIAs and threat modeling, implement ISO 22301-aligned frameworks, coordinate crisis management and cyber recovery simulations, and serve as primary contact for audits, regulatory reviews, and client assurance.
Summary Generated by Built In

Cyber Resiliency 

 

  • Partner with Cyber, Technology, Infrastructure, Application Owners, Cloud, and third parties to define cyber recovery objectives (RTO/RPO), prioritized service recovery, and dependency mapping. 
  • Lead adoption of cyber resiliency practices, immutable and air‑gapped backups, clean‑room recovery, secure identity recovery, and restoration validation. 
  • Ensure cyber crisis response playbooks are fully integrated across Incident Response, Crisis Management, DR, Legal, Compliance, Communications, and Executive leadership. 
  • Drive regular cyber recovery simulations (table‑top and technical); track corrective actions through closure and report readiness to governance forums

Business Continuity

  • Lead implementation, and continuous enhancement of enterprise Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Cyber Resiliency frameworks aligned to ISO 22301 and leading resilience standards
  • Act as a primary point of contact for client assurance, regulatory reviews, audits, RFPs/RFIs, and resilience capability demonstrations
  • Drive organization-wide Business Impact Assessments (BIA), risk assessments, and threat modeling to identify critical services, recovery priorities, and systemic vulnerabilities.
  • Identify and remediate Single Points of Failure (SPOFs) across business processes, technology, people, and third‑party dependencies.

Crisis Management

  • Lead and coordinate large‑scale enterprise crisis response, acting as a core member of the Crisis Management Team during high‑impact events. 
  • Manage crises including cyber incidents, technology outages, infrastructure failures, civil disturbances, natural disasters, and geopolitical disruptions, ensuring controlled escalation and decision-making
  • Oversee development, testing, and execution of Crisis Management Plans, Emergency Response Plans, and Command Center protocols


Responsibilities

yber Resiliency 

 

  • Partner with Cyber, Technology, Infrastructure, Application Owners, Cloud, and third parties to define cyber recovery objectives (RTO/RPO), prioritized service recovery, and dependency mapping. 
  • Lead adoption of cyber resiliency practices, immutable and air‑gapped backups, clean‑room recovery, secure identity recovery, and restoration validation. 
  • Ensure cyber crisis response playbooks are fully integrated across Incident Response, Crisis Management, DR, Legal, Compliance, Communications, and Executive leadership. 
  • Drive regular cyber recovery simulations (table‑top and technical); track corrective actions through closure and report readiness to governance forums

Business Continuity

  • Lead implementation, and continuous enhancement of enterprise Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Cyber Resiliency frameworks aligned to ISO 22301 and leading resilience standards
  • Act as a primary point of contact for client assurance, regulatory reviews, audits, RFPs/RFIs, and resilience capability demonstrations
  • Drive organization-wide Business Impact Assessments (BIA), risk assessments, and threat modeling to identify critical services, recovery priorities, and systemic vulnerabilities.
  • Identify and remediate Single Points of Failure (SPOFs) across business processes, technology, people, and third‑party dependencies.

Crisis Management

  • Lead and coordinate large‑scale enterprise crisis response, acting as a core member of the Crisis Management Team during high‑impact events. 
  • Manage crises including cyber incidents, technology outages, infrastructure failures, civil disturbances, natural disasters, and geopolitical disruptions, ensuring controlled escalation and decision-making
  • Oversee development, testing, and execution of Crisis Management Plans, Emergency Response Plans, and Command Center protocols
Qualifications

8–15 years of overall experience, with hands‑on experience in working closely with Information Security, Cyber Defense, SOC and Incident Response

Proven experience managing complex, high‑pressure, multi‑stakeholder crisis events, including cyber incidents.

Strong working knowledge of ISO 22301, BCM lifecycle, cyber recovery models, and integrated crisis response

Certifications such as ISO 22301, CISSP, CISM,CBCI, MBCI or equivalent strongly preferred.

Executive‑level communication skills with the ability to operate confidently during crisis situations.

About Us
EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) is a leading data analytics and digital operations and solutions company. We partner with clients using a data and AI-led approach to reinvent business models, drive better business outcomes and unlock growth with speed. EXL harnesses the power of data, analytics, AI, and deep industry knowledge to transform operations for the world’s leading corporations in industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, media and retail, among others. EXL was founded in 1999 with the core values of innovation, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect. We are headquartered in New York and have more than 54,000 employees spanning six continents. For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.


EXL never requires or asks for fees/payments or credit card or bank details during any phase of the recruitment or hiring process and has not authorized any agencies or partners to collect any fee or payment from prospective candidates. EXL will only extend a job offer after a candidate has gone through a formal interview process with members of EXL’s Human Resources team, as well as our hiring managers.
About the TeamEXL is the indispensable partner for leading businesses in data-led industries such as insurance, banking and financial services, healthcare, retail and logistics. We bring a unique combination of data, advanced analytics, digital technology and industry expertise to help our clients turn data into insights, streamline operations, improve customer experience, and transform their business. Our partnerships with clients are built on a foundation of collaboration – and we’ve been chosen as a partner by nine of the top ten leading US insurance companies, nine of the top 20 global banks, and six of the top ten US health care payers. We function as one team to make your goals our goals, whether that’s unlocking the value of generative AI or embedding analytics into workflows that reduce risk or power your growth. Clients choose EXL as their transformation partner for many reasons. Our geographic diversity make talent all over the world instantly accessible. Digital accelerators enable unmatched speed-to-value, letting you realize results fast. It’s our people that truly set us apart, though, including the 1,500 data scientists we have dedicated to our generative AI practice. And our more than twenty years of experience in delivering business services, garnering stellar client references, and maintaining a solid balance sheet are reassuring to our C-suite clients. Find out for yourself why clients, employees, and analysts think we’re some of the best in the business. Contact us to see how we can help you achieve your goals.

Skills Required

  • 8-15 years of overall experience
  • Hands-on experience working closely with Information Security, Cyber Defense, SOC and Incident Response
  • Proven experience managing complex, high-pressure, multi-stakeholder crisis events, including cyber incidents
  • Strong working knowledge of ISO 22301, BCM lifecycle, cyber recovery models, and integrated crisis response
  • Certifications such as ISO 22301, CISSP, CISM, CBCI, MBCI or equivalent
  • Executive-level communication skills with the ability to operate confidently during crisis situations
  • Experience leading Business Impact Assessments (BIA), risk assessments, and threat modeling
  • Experience with cyber recovery practices: immutable and air‑gapped backups, clean‑room recovery, secure identity recovery, and restoration validation
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
30,246 Employees
Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

Choosing a digital partner is about more than capabilities — it’s about collaboration and character. Unrealistic overhauls and off-the-shelf products ignore what matters most — your unique needs, culture, goals, and your legacy data and technology environments. At EXL, our collaboration is built on ongoing listening and learning to adapt our methodologies. We’re your business evolution partner—tailoring solutions that make the most of data to make better business decisions and drive more intelligence into your increasingly digital operations. Whether your goals are scaling the use of AI and digital, redesign operating models, or driving better and faster decisions, we’re here to partner with you to help you gain—and maintain—competitive advantage with efficient, sustainable models at scale. Our expertise in transformation, data science, and change management helps make your business more efficient and effective, improve customer relationships and enhance revenue growth. Instead of focusing on multi-year, resource- and time-intensive platform designs or migrations, we look deeper at your entire value chain to integrate strategies with impact. We use our specialization in analytics, digital interventions, and operations management—alongside deep industry expertise — to deliver solutions that help you outperform the competition. At EXL, it’s all about outcomes—your outcomes—and delivering success on your terms. Share your goals with us and together, we’ll optimize how you leverage data to drive your business forward. For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.

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