Senior Specialist: Technology Resilience & Assurance

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Date: 17 Mar 2026

Location: Centurion, Gauteng, ZA

Company: BCXP

Business unit, Department, Reporting

Business Unit Chief Finance Officer (CFO)
Department BTE
Job grade/level S4

 

Core Description

Ensures that BCX’s technology landscape is stable, secure, compliant, recoverable, and resilient in the face of operational, cybersecurity, infrastructure, platform, and service risks.

Key Deliverables / Primary Functions

  • Develop and maintain BCX’s Technology Resilience and Assurance strategy, frameworks, principles and operating model, ensuring enterprise wide alignment to risk, governance and operational standards.
  • Lead resilience governance across platforms, infrastructure, networks, cloud environments and critical business systems to protect service continuity and operational stability.
  • Oversee Disaster Recovery architecture, plan maintenance, testing cycles and reporting, ensuring alignment between recovery objectives, business continuity requirements and platform capabilities.
  • Conduct resilience risk assessments, control evaluations, technology audits and assurance reviews across the technology stack, driving remediation and strengthening control maturity.
  • Govern platform changes, upgrades, migrations and integrations to safeguard operational integrity and ensure resilience compliance across transformation initiatives.
  • Partner with Cybersecurity to align resilience controls with threat prevention, detection and response capabilities, strengthening enterprise protection and recovery readiness.
  • Lead major incident reviews, root cause analysis and resilience improvement programmes, embedding lessons learned into design standards and operational processes.
  • Provide executive reporting on resilience KPIs, compliance dashboards and operational readiness indicators, while supporting regulatory, contractual and audit obligations and fostering a culture of structured testing, capacity planning, redundancy and continuous improvement across BTE.

 

Core Functional Skills & Capabilities

Cloud Architecture
Incident Management
Risk Management
Quality Management
Disaster Management

Core Behavioural Competencies

Formulating Strategies & Concepts
Creating & Innovating
Delivering Results & Meeting Customer Expectations
Job Match
Leading and supervising
Entrepreneurial & Commercial Thinking

Minimum Qualifications

Three-year degree (NQF 7) in Information Systems, Computer Science or related field.
Postgraduate qualification in IT Governance or Risk Management is preferable.

Additional Education -Preferred /Advantage

Experience

  • At least Seven (7) years’ experience in IT resilience, operations, risk assurance, cybersecurity, DR/BCM, or platform assurance roles.
  • Proven experience managing DR programmes, resilience testing cycles, and technology recovery planning will be advantageous.

Certifications

Certifications in ITIL, COBIT, DR/BCM, ISO 22301, ISO 27001, or related assurance frameworks are advantageous.
Risk or audit certifications add further value.
Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS, SAP) are beneficial.

Professional Memberships in Relevant Industry

Level of Engagement & Span of Control

Level of engagement - Interact with similar levels, Executive levels, and various stakeholder internal and external to BCX.

Span of control = 1- 5

Special Requirements / Employment Condition

Willing to travel
Valid Drivers license

Workplace / Physical Requirements

Hybrid Remote Worker
Non-Billable

BCX is an equal opportunity employer and appointments will be made in line with our employment equity plan and talent requirements. We seek to promote the employment and advancement of designated groups, inclusive of people with disabilities, while building an inclusive workforce that embraces diversity.