Principal Consultant, Disaster Recovery

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Toronto, ON, CAN
Hybrid
153K-197K Annually
Expert/Leader
Fintech • Professional Services • Consulting • Energy • Financial Services • Cybersecurity • Generative AI
Be Yourself at Work, Make a Difference, and Act with Integrity are our values at Capco.
The Role
Lead development, maintenance, and execution of disaster recovery plans and tests across applications, infrastructure, data centres, and cyber scenarios. Coordinate testing, track outcomes and remediation, produce governance documentation, executive reporting, playbooks, and evidence to meet operational resilience and regulatory requirements while engaging cross-functional stakeholders.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

What You’ll Do
  • Develop, maintain, and execute disaster recovery plans for critical applications, infrastructure, systems, data, and technology services, ensuring recovery readiness across complex environments.
  • Coordinate disaster recovery planning and testing activities, defining recovery objectives, technical dependencies, recovery sequencing, test scope, execution readiness, and evidence collection.
  • Support recovery activities across technology services, including application, infrastructure, data centre, and cyber recovery scenarios while collaborating with cross-functional technology and business teams.
  • Track disaster recovery test outcomes, risks, issues, remediation activities, and unresolved gaps through to resolution or formal risk acceptance.
  • Produce disaster recovery governance documentation, executive reporting, recovery dashboards, playbooks, and evidence to support assurance, audit, and operational resilience requirements.
What We’re Looking For
  • Experience delivering Disaster Recovery or Technology Resilience programmes within financial services, banking, or highly regulated environments.
  • Strong understanding of disaster recovery planning, recovery objectives (RTO/RPO), dependency mapping, recovery testing, governance, and operational resilience principles.
  • Experience collaborating with application owners, infrastructure teams, cyber security, technology risk, business continuity, and senior stakeholders.
  • Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to present recovery readiness and risk reporting to leadership audiences.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities while delivering high-quality documentation, reporting, and recovery coordination activities.
Bonus Points For
  • Experience supporting cyber recovery exercises or data centre recovery programmes.
  • Knowledge of financial services regulatory expectations relating to operational resilience and disaster recovery.
  • Experience with enterprise governance, risk, or resilience tooling.
  • Industry certifications relating to Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Service Management, or Cloud technologies.
  • Previous consulting experience delivering technology resilience engagements for Tier 1 financial institutions.
Why Join Capco
  • Deliver high-impact technology solutions for Tier 1 financial institutions.
  • Work in a collaborative, flat, and entrepreneurial consulting culture.
  • Access continuous learning, training, and industry certifications.
  • Be part of a team shaping the future of digital financial services.
  • Help shape the future of digital transformation across Financial Services.
Benefits
  • Comprehensive Benefits Coverage – 100% company-paid health, life, and disability insurance effective from Day 1 of employment.
  • Retirement Savings Program – Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with the option of receiving a matching employer contribution.
  • Virtual Health Care and Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP) available for employees and eligible dependents.
  • Enhanced parental leave, wellness reimbursement, and a company-sponsored new parent gift.
  • Business Coach from Day 1 to support your career growth, alongside a comprehensive learning and development programme.
Why This Role Is Open

We are currently hiring for this role due to an existing vacancy within our organization. This position is open as part of our ongoing business needs, and we are actively reviewing applications to fill this role with a qualified candidate who can make an immediate impact.

Inclusion at Capco

We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible and straightforward for everyone. If you need any adjustments at any stage, just let us know – we’ll be happy to help. We value each person’s unique perspective and contribution. At Capco, we believe that being yourself is your greatest strength. Our #BeYourselfAtWork culture encourages individuality and collaboration – a mindset that shapes how we work with clients and each other every day.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in Talent Acquisition

At Capco, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support and enhance several parts of talent acquisition. This includes using AI-enabled features within LinkedIn to help source potential candidates, speeding up routine recruitment communications such as emails and creating compelling and brand-aligned job postings that accurately reflect role requirements, and AI-scheduling applications to improve the efficiency of interview coordination.

AI is used as a support tool only. All hiring decisions are made by talent acquisition and hiring teams.

Pay Transparency

The salary range for this position is listed below. Additionally, this position may also be eligible to receive an annual discretionary/variable bonus payment.


Capco is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation to our people. Our compensation policies and salary ranges are designed to allow our people to progress through the salary range as they demonstrate strong performance and develop in their role over time. The base pay offered to selected candidates will be within the salary range and the placement will vary based upon a variety of factors, including, but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills, experience and internal equity.                                                                                                   

Canada Pay Transparency
$153,000$197,000 CAD

Skills Required

  • Experience delivering Disaster Recovery or Technology Resilience programmes within financial services or highly regulated environments
  • Strong understanding of disaster recovery planning, recovery objectives (RTO/RPO), dependency mapping, recovery testing, governance, and operational resilience principles
  • Experience collaborating with application owners, infrastructure teams, cyber security, technology risk, business continuity, and senior stakeholders
  • Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills with ability to present recovery readiness and risk reporting to leadership
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities while delivering high-quality documentation, reporting, and recovery coordination activities
  • Experience supporting cyber recovery exercises or data centre recovery programmes
  • Knowledge of financial services regulatory expectations relating to operational resilience and disaster recovery
  • Experience with enterprise governance, risk, or resilience tooling (GRC/resilience tools)
  • Industry certifications relating to Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Service Management, or Cloud technologies
  • Previous consulting experience delivering technology resilience engagements for Tier 1 financial institutions

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Capco Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Healthcare Strength Health, dental, and vision coverage are described as solid with low copays and a good variety of choices, complemented by mental‑health resources, an EAP, and wellbeing events. Company materials emphasize global availability of these supports.
  • Parental & Family Support Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave are highlighted, with several months of maternity leave noted in the U.S. in some accounts. Additional paid leave is called out for life events such as pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits A global wellbeing program, coaching/mentoring, mental‑health initiatives, and wellness reimbursements (e.g., gym, fitness) are positioned as core parts of the offering. Flexible working is emphasized alongside regionally tailored wellbeing events.

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The Company
HQ: London
6,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1998

What We Do

Capco, a Wipro company, is a global management and technology consultancy specializing in driving transformation in the energy and financial services industries. Capco operates at the intersection of business and technology by combining innovative thinking with unrivalled industry knowledge to fast-track digital initiatives for banking and payments, capital markets, wealth and asset management, insurance, and the energy sector. Capco’s cutting edge ingenuity is brought to life through its award-winning Be Yourself At Work culture and diverse talent. TRUSTED ADVISORS - Our collaborative and entrepreneurial approach position us as trusted long-term partners to our clients. DEEP EXPERTISE - Clients look to us for clear guidance, proven expertise, and the support they need to set their companies up for success. DISRUPTIVE SOLUTIONS- We do not provide off -the-shelf answers to clients’ challenges. Instead, we work in close collaboration to understand the issues, and craft disruptive, bespoke solutions. ACCOUNTABILITY AND OWNERSHIP - We recognize every client has distinct needs and expectations, and we take ownership and accountability for the solutions we design, build, and deliver.

Why Work With Us

We support and encourage an inclusive culture, entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. Capco is not about organizational charts and rigid hierarchies – we want all employees to feel that Capco is their firm to own and run. We believe diversity powers innovation. Be Yourself At Work (#BYAW) is an integral and underlying part of our culture

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