Business Continuity Engineer

Location: Head Office Frankfurt, Prishtina, Skopje

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

What your key responsibilities will be:

• You are accountable for the design, implementation, enforcement, and continuous improvement of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCP/DR) frameworks in accordance with DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) and banking regulatory expectations.

• Ensure that ICT architectures, technologies, and operational processes demonstrably meet DORA requirements for ICT risk management, operational resilience, and service continuity.

• Define, standardize, and enforce BCP/DR standards, patterns, and recovery architectures across the organization.

• Design cost-efficient, risk-based DR solutions that balance RTO/RPO, service criticality, regulatory expectations, and financial constraints.

• Own end-to-end recovery architecture, including compute, storage, backup, networking, and orchestration layers.

• Translate business impact analyses (BIA) and regulatory requirements into technical recovery strategies.

• Incorporate lessons learned from tests and incidents into BCP/DR plans, technical designs, and standards.

• Maintain and continuously improve recovery runbooks, escalation models, and decision frameworks.

• Act as recovery lead during disaster scenarios, coordinating technical and organizational recovery activities and driving decision-making under pressure.

• Provide expert input and leadership during major incidents, crisis situations, and disaster declarations.

• Prepare and deliver regulatory-ready documentation, evidence, and reports for audits, supervisory reviews, and customer assessments.

• Formulate risk acceptance recommendations where regulatory or business requirements cannot be met in a cost-effective or technically feasible manner, including clear impact and mitigation options.

Skills and experience we expect from you:

• Completed training in an IT profession, university of applied sciences degree in computer science or comparable knowledge.

• Knowledge and understanding of the DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) regulation is considered a significant advantage.

• Proven hands-on experience in BCP and DR design and execution within regulated financial or banking environments.

• Deep technical expertise in: Hyper-V, Nutanix, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cisco networking, Azure

• Strong understanding of DORA, ICT risk management, and operational resilience requirements.

• Solid grasp of RTO/RPO definitions, service classification, dependency mapping, and recovery prioritization.

• Experience designing cost-optimized DR architectures (backup-based recovery, warm standby, pilot light, selective redundancy).

• Demonstrated ability to challenge business and regulatory interpretations and translate them into technically sound solutions.

• Strong leadership skills with authority to drive decisions and enforce standards.

• Experience coordinating cross-functional and cross-site recovery teams.

• Excellent analytical and documentation skills with an audit-oriented mindset.

• Very good written and spoken English.

• Ability to communicate complex resilience and recovery concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders and management.

• Willingness to participate in BCP/DR tests, crisis simulations, and real recovery activities outside normal business hours.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!