Principal Consultant, Disaster Recovery

Capco is seeking a Disaster Recovery Consultant to join our Banking & Payments practice in Toronto. In this role, you will help clients strengthen their technology resilience by developing, maintaining, and validating disaster recovery capabilities across business-critical applications, infrastructure, and technology services. You will work closely with technology, cyber, infrastructure, operational resilience, and business stakeholders to ensure recovery strategies are robust, well-tested, and aligned with regulatory expectations.

What You’ll Do

• Develop, maintain, and execute disaster recovery plans for critical applications, infrastructure, systems, data, and technology services, ensuring recovery readiness across complex environments.
• Coordinate disaster recovery planning and testing activities, defining recovery objectives, technical dependencies, recovery sequencing, test scope, execution readiness, and evidence collection.
• Support recovery activities across technology services, including application, infrastructure, data centre, and cyber recovery scenarios while collaborating with cross-functional technology and business teams.
• Track disaster recovery test outcomes, risks, issues, remediation activities, and unresolved gaps through to resolution or formal risk acceptance.
• Produce disaster recovery governance documentation, executive reporting, recovery dashboards, playbooks, and evidence to support assurance, audit, and operational resilience requirements.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience delivering Disaster Recovery or Technology Resilience programmes within financial services, banking, or highly regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of disaster recovery planning, recovery objectives (RTO/RPO), dependency mapping, recovery testing, governance, and operational resilience principles.
• Experience collaborating with application owners, infrastructure teams, cyber security, technology risk, business continuity, and senior stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to present recovery readiness and risk reporting to leadership audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while delivering high-quality documentation, reporting, and recovery coordination activities.

Bonus Points For

• Experience supporting cyber recovery exercises or data centre recovery programmes.
• Knowledge of financial services regulatory expectations relating to operational resilience and disaster recovery.
• Experience with enterprise governance, risk, or resilience tooling.
• Industry certifications relating to Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Service Management, or Cloud technologies.
• Previous consulting experience delivering technology resilience engagements for Tier 1 financial institutions.

Why Join Capco

• Deliver high-impact technology solutions for Tier 1 financial institutions.
• Work in a collaborative, flat, and entrepreneurial consulting culture.
• Access continuous learning, training, and industry certifications.
• Be part of a team shaping the future of digital financial services.
• Help shape the future of digital transformation across Financial Services.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits Coverage – 100% company-paid health, life, and disability insurance effective from Day 1 of employment.
• Retirement Savings Program – Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with the option of receiving a matching employer contribution.
• Virtual Health Care and Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP) available for employees and eligible dependents.
• Enhanced parental leave, wellness reimbursement, and a company-sponsored new parent gift.
• Business Coach from Day 1 to support your career growth, alongside a comprehensive learning and development programme.

Why This Role Is Open

We are currently hiring for this role due to an existing vacancy within our organization. This position is open as part of our ongoing business needs, and we are actively reviewing applications to fill this role with a qualified candidate who can make an immediate impact.

Inclusion at Capco

We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible and straightforward for everyone. If you need any adjustments at any stage, just let us know – we’ll be happy to help. We value each person’s unique perspective and contribution. At Capco, we believe that being yourself is your greatest strength. Our #BeYourselfAtWork culture encourages individuality and collaboration – a mindset that shapes how we work with clients and each other every day.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in Talent Acquisition

At Capco, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support and enhance several parts of talent acquisition. This includes using AI-enabled features within LinkedIn to help source potential candidates, speeding up routine recruitment communications such as emails and creating compelling and brand-aligned job postings that accurately reflect role requirements, and AI-scheduling applications to improve the efficiency of interview coordination.

AI is used as a support tool only. All hiring decisions are made by talent acquisition and hiring teams.