Job Title: Sr Lead - BCP Architect
About GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world’s most inspired technology companies. With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GlobalFoundries makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets. For more information, visit www.gf.com.
Introduction
This role will be within the Infrastructure Solutions Delivery (ISD) organization at GlobalFoundries IT. The ISD organization's primary focus is on building, developing, and delivering infrastructure that effectively addresses business requirements and opportunities, while ensuring a robust, sustainable, and standardized platform for Operations to manage.
Your Job:
As a Senior Lead – Business Continuity Architect within the Infrastructure Solutions Delivery (ISD) organization, you will be responsible for defining, governing, and advancing GlobalFoundries’ IT Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) strategy. This role ensures critical business services and technology platforms are resilient, recoverable, and aligned with corporate risk management objectives. You will partner with infrastructure, application, cybersecurity, operations, and business stakeholders to design and maintain continuity capabilities that minimize operational disruption and support rapid recovery from adverse events.
Define and maintain enterprise-wide IT Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery architecture, standards, and governance.
Ensure critical business services and technology platforms meet recovery objectives, regulatory requirements, and risk management expectations.
Drive resilience-by-design principles across infrastructure, cloud, network, storage, compute, and application environments.
Lead business impact analysis (BIA), recovery strategy development, and continuity planning activities across the organization.
Establish and validate recovery capabilities through testing, exercising, and continuous improvement programs.
Collaborate with technology and business leaders to reduce operational risk and improve organizational resilience against outages, cyber incidents, and disaster scenarios.
Key Responsibilities
BC/DR Strategy Development: Develop and maintain the enterprise IT Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategy, roadmap, standards, and reference architectures aligned with business and regulatory requirements.
Business Impact Analysis (BIA): Lead BIA initiatives to identify critical business functions, technology dependencies, recovery priorities, and recovery objectives (RTO/RPO).
Recovery Architecture: Design resilient infrastructure and recovery solutions across datacenter, cloud, network, storage, virtualization, and application environments to meet defined recovery targets.
Continuity Planning: Establish and maintain Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs), Technology Recovery Plans (TRPs), and supporting continuity documentation for critical services.
Testing & Exercise Management: Plan, coordinate, and execute disaster recovery tests, tabletop exercises, cyber recovery simulations, and failover/failback validation activities.
Risk Assessment & Mitigation: Identify continuity risks, single points of failure, recovery gaps, and operational vulnerabilities, and drive remediation plans with technology teams.
Governance & Compliance: Ensure continuity programs comply with corporate policies, audit requirements, industry frameworks, and relevant regulatory standards.
Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with business leaders, infrastructure teams, application owners, and executive management to align continuity planning with organizational priorities.
Continuous Improvement: Drive ongoing enhancements to continuity processes, recovery automation, testing methodologies, and operational readiness based on lessons learned and evolving business requirements.
Required Qualifications
A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience of 10+ years of experience.
Strong knowledge of networking concepts and protocols.
Familiarity with VMware.
Familiarity with enterprise storage systems and technologies (NetApp)
Problem-Solving: Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.
Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical information clearly and effectively.
GlobalFoundries is an equal opportunity employer, cultivating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We believe having a multicultural workplace enhances productivity, efficiency and innovation whilst our employees feel truly respected, valued and heard. As an affirmative employer, all qualified applicants are considered for employment regardless of age, ethnicity, marital status, citizenship, race, religion, political affiliation, gender, sexual orientation and medical and/or physical abilities. All offers of employment with GlobalFoundries are conditioned upon the successful completion of background checks, medical screenings as applicable and subject to the respective local laws and regulations.
To ensure that we maintain a safe and healthy workplace for our GlobalFoundries employees, please note that offered candidates who have applied for jobs in India will have to be fully vaccinated prior to their targeted start date. For new hires, the appointment is contingent upon the provision of a copy of their COVID-19 vaccination document, subject to any written request for medical or religious accommodation.
Information about our benefits you can find here: https://gf.com/about-us/careers/opportunities-asia
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent (10+ years) experience.
- Strong knowledge of networking concepts and protocols.
- Familiarity with VMware virtualization technologies.
- Familiarity with enterprise storage systems and technologies (NetApp).
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
GlobalFoundries Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GlobalFoundries and has not been reviewed or approved by GlobalFoundries.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and mental health support is presented as a meaningful part of the package. Wellness programs and an Employee Assistance Program add to the sense of broad health coverage.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with matching from day one and access to an employee stock purchase program are positioned as notable financial benefits. Retirement provisions are repeatedly framed as a strong counterweight to other compensation concerns.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off provisions are described as generous, including high annual vacation accrual, dedicated sick time, and additional personal days. Extended paid parental leave frameworks are also outlined as a substantial leave benefit.
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What We Do
GlobalFoundries (GF) is one of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers. GF is redefining innovation and semiconductor manufacturing by developing and delivering feature-rich process technology solutions that provide leadership performance in pervasive high growth markets. GF offers a unique mix of design, development, and fabrication services. With a talented and diverse workforce and an at-scale manufacturing footprint spanning the U.S., Europe and Asia, GF is a trusted technology source to its worldwide customers. For more information, visit www.gf.com. GlobalFoundries is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) employer Minorities/Female/Disabled/Veteran (M/F/D/V).#CB
