Senior Director, IT Enterprise Resilience

About the role

NXP is hiring a Senior Director, IT Enterprise Resilience in Austin (Oakhill). The role is accountable for disaster recovery governance, business continuity alignment, the Minimum Viable Company program, cold start capability, crisis readiness and the enterprise recovery exercise calendar. It coordinates recovery activity across CIO towers and sites on behalf of the CISO and CIO, and leads recovery and restoration during disruptive events as a coordinated peer to the Incident Commander.

Key responsibilities

• Own enterprise disaster recovery governance for the technology estate, including recovery standards, critical dependencies, recovery time objectives, sequencing, ownership, validation and exception handling.
• Lead the Minimum Viable Company program, coordinating cross-tower and site-level inputs from CIO teams, information security, operations, business resilience and other stakeholders.
• Define, maintain and validate cold start capabilities that restore essential technology services when primary environments, identity, network, collaboration or tooling are degraded or unavailable.
• Chair the quarterly Recovery Owners' Council and build and manage the enterprise recovery exercise calendar (tabletop, simulation, full-scale, failover, backup and recovery, cyber recovery, out-of-band communications).
• Set and validate IT recovery standards through exercises, tests, after-action reviews, audit findings and management reviews.
• Coordinate with Business Resilience and Crisis Management leaders on playbooks, BIAs, ORAs, rosters, communication protocols and reporting.
• During incidents, lead recovery and restoration alongside the Incident Commander and report readiness, risks, exercise outcomes and remediation progress to the CISO, CIO, management and audit committees.
• Drive continuous improvement through KPIs, lessons learned, audits and standards alignment.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or above in IT, cybersecurity, computer science, engineering, business continuity, risk management or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in technology resilience, disaster recovery, business continuity, information security, infrastructure, enterprise IT operations, risk management or crisis management.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise disaster recovery or cyber recovery programs for complex, global technology environments.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional programs across CIO, CISO, business, manufacturing/site, legal, communications, audit, risk and executive stakeholders.
• Relevant certifications preferred (CBCP, MBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer/Auditor, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, ITIL).

Required skills

• Business impact analysis, recovery time and point objectives, dependency mapping, operational resilience and recovery validation.
• Crisis management, incident command concepts, playbooks, after-action reviews and executive reporting.
• Familiarity with ISO 22301, ISO 22316, ISO 22320, ISO 22361, ISO 31000, COSO ERM and industry requirements.
• Strong governance discipline and proven ability to lead through ambiguity and pressure.