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About the Role

Deloitte, a global leader in professional services, is seeking a skilled Consultant/Senior Consultant to join its Technology Resilience team. This role offers an opportunity to contribute to one of the largest professional services firms, focused on making an impact that matters. You will play a crucial part in helping clients enhance their technology resilience, ensuring business continuity and mitigating risks in an increasingly complex digital landscape.

This position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and is a full-time opportunity. You will advise clients on strengthening their technology resilience capabilities, drawing upon expertise in IT continuity, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive Technology Impact Analyses (TIA) or similar exercises to assess critical IT dependencies and their potential business impact.
• Lead or participate in Disaster Recovery (DR) drills, ensuring the effectiveness of recovery processes.
• Develop, execute, and maintain detailed runbooks to standardize technology resilience operations.
• Evaluate data centers, hybrid/cloud infrastructure, and application landscapes from a resilience perspective, identifying vulnerabilities and areas for improvement.
• Translate complex technical risks into business impact terms and communicate recommendations to non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development and support of resilience strategies, roadmaps, and implementation plans for enterprise clients.
• Advise clients on meeting regulatory expectations around technology resilience, particularly within sectors such as financial services, energy, or government.
• Support or run tabletop exercises, technical simulations, or chaos engineering experiments to test resilience measures.
• Perform resilience posture assessments and provide advice on improvements using industry-aligned frameworks such as ISO 22301, DORA, NIST, and COBIT.
• Assess and advise on the resilience of emerging technologies, including AI model resilience, edge computing, and OT/ICS environments.

Required Qualifications

• Strong understanding of technology resilience concepts, including recovery architecture, IT continuity, backup strategies, and failover design.
• Hands-on experience in conducting Technology Impact Analysis (TIA) or similar exercises.
• Hands-on experience in running or participating in Disaster Recovery (DR) drills.
• Proficiency in developing, executing, and maintaining runbooks.
• Ability to evaluate data centers, hybrid/cloud infrastructure, and application landscapes through a resilience lens.
• Capability to translate technical risks into business impact terms and communicate recommendations clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven involvement in developing or supporting resilience strategies, roadmaps, or implementation plans for enterprise clients.
• Knowledge of regulatory expectations around technology resilience, especially within financial services, energy, or government sectors.

Key Skills and Experience

• Technology resilience concepts, recovery architecture, IT continuity, backup strategies, failover design.
• Technology Impact Analysis (TIA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) drills.
• Runbook development, execution, and maintenance.
• Evaluation of data centers, hybrid/cloud infrastructure, and application landscapes from a resilience perspective.
• Translating technical risks into business impact and communicating recommendations to non-technical audiences.
• Development and support of resilience strategies, roadmaps, and implementation plans.
• Understanding of regulatory expectations for technology resilience.
• Familiarity with business continuity, crisis management, or operational resilience frameworks beyond IT-specific areas.
• Experience supporting or running tabletop exercises, technical simulations, or chaos engineering experiments.
• Knowledge of cloud resilience architectures, including multi-AZ/multi-region failover and backup/restore in AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Understanding of cyber-resilience intersections, such as ransomware preparedness, zero-trust recovery, or secure-by-design principles.
• Hands-on exposure to modern resilience solutions, including immutable backups, cyber vaults, DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS), or cloud-native recovery approaches.
• Experience performing resilience posture assessments and advising on improvements using industry-aligned frameworks (*, ISO 22301, DORA, NIST, COBIT).
• Exposure to emerging technology risk, such as AI model resilience, edge computing, or OT/ICS environments.
• Professional certifications such as ISO 22301 Lead Auditor/Implementer, CBCI, AWS/Azure cloud certifications, or DORA/operational resilience credentials are a plus.

Role Details

This is a full-time position with Deloitte, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role requires 5-10 years of experience in technology resilience.