IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) Consultant

Are you an experienced IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) Consultant with a passion for resilience, governance, and enterprise risk management? We re partnering with a leading organisation in Riyadh to hire an ITDR Consultant who will play a key role in strengthening enterprise resilience by assessing, designing, and governing Disaster Recovery capabilities across the organisation. This is a strategic advisory role focused on governance, operating models, risk assessment, documentation, and stakeholder engagement rather than hands-on infrastructure implementation. What You ll Be Doing: • Lead enterprise-wide IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) risk assessments and maturity evaluations. • Design and develop comprehensive Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs) aligned to business-critical services. • Define recovery strategies, Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), and application recovery priorities. • Perform technology dependency analysis and develop end-to-end recovery workflows and procedures. • Establish and implement a Disaster Recovery Incident Management Framework (DRIMF), including incident governance, escalation models, crisis communications, and executive reporting. • Develop an enterprise IT Disaster Recovery Operating Model covering governance structures, organisational roles, KPIs, KRIs, service metrics, and continuous improvement. • Facilitate workshops with business and technology stakeholders to identify critical systems, dependencies, and recovery requirements. • Produce high-quality documentation, governance artefacts, standards, policies, and operating procedures. • Ensure Disaster Recovery capabilities align with international best practices and Saudi regulatory requirements. • Support the development of Disaster Recovery maturity roadmaps and ongoing governance initiatives. • Proven experience delivering enterprise IT Disaster Recovery strategy, governance, and advisory engagements. • Strong understanding of ITDR Risk Assessments and Business Impact Analysis (BIA). • Experience developing Disaster Recovery Plans, recovery procedures, and governance frameworks. • Knowledge of: • Recovery strategies and recovery workflows • RTO/RPO definition and management • Critical application recovery mapping • Technology dependency analysis • Disaster Recovery governance and operating models • Incident lifecycle management and escalation frameworks • Incident classification, severity models, and crisis communication • RACI matrices, executive reporting, and regulatory reporting requirements • Lessons Learned processes and continual service improvement • Experience designing enterprise operating models, governance structures, steering committees, KPIs, KRIs, and service metrics. • Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and documentation skills. • Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage senior business and technology leaders.