Principal, Quality Digital Resilience Engineer

Requisition ID 36116 Office Country Bulgaria Office City Sofia Division Information Technology Contract Type Fixed Term Contract Length 3 years Posting End Date 06/11/2025

Lead the charge in digital resilience. We’re seeking a Principal Quality Digital Resilience Engineer to define and drive the frameworks that keep mission-critical systems running—no matter the disruption. You’ll own the enterprise-wide digital resilience strategy, embedding principles of DORA, NIST, and ISO 22301 into every layer of technology and process. From IT service continuity and disaster recovery planning to full-scale simulation exercises, you’ll ensure the organisation can withstand and recover from anything, from cyberattacks to system outages to data centre loss.

This is a hands-on leadership role where technology, risk, and strategy converge. You’ll partner across IT, Cyber, and Business Continuity teams to embed resilience-by-design into infrastructure and cloud platforms like Azure, M365, and SAP, ensuring critical services remain stable, compliant, and recoverable. If you’re passionate about operational resilience, thrive in complex hybrid environments, and want to shape how a leading organisation stays secure, responsive, and ready for the unexpected, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Owns the end-to-end digital resilience framework, aligning with the Banks enterprise risk, continuity, and IT strategies. Ensures the approach complies with recognised standards and regulatory frameworks such as DORA, NIST 800-53, ISO 2230. Defines resilience principles, service criticality tiers, and assurance requirements across the technology estate.
• Ensures that IT service continuity plans, disaster recovery playbooks, and crisis escalation procedures are documented, approved, and tested. Supports teams in embedding resilience into design and runbooks, ensuring coverage for both infrastructure and application-level scenarios (e.g. system outages, supplier failures, cyber-attacks, data centre loss).
• Develops and leads the resilience testing calendar, incorporating tabletop exercises, failover and failback testing, communication drills, and live scenario simulations, ensuring lessons learned are documented, remediation actions are tracked, and residual risks are formally accepted or escalated.
• Coordinates across IT, Security (Cyber and Physical), Capability teams, legal, compliance, and business continuity functions to ensure a unified approach to resilience. Provides regular briefings to senior risk committees, support regulatory engagement (e.g. DORA Articles 12–13 on testing), and ensures third-party services are included in resilience testing and planning.

Knowledge and Education

• Strong understanding of digital operational resilience principles, aligned with regulatory and best practice frameworks such as DORA, NIST 800-34/53, ISO 22301, and enterprise risk management (ERM) standards.
• Experience in conducting business impact assessments (BIA), technology risk analysis, dependency mapping, and scenario-based testing to evaluate resilience of critical business services, IT assets, and third-party dependencies.
• Experience developing and maintaining IT service continuity plans (ITSCM), disaster recovery (DR) playbooks, and incident response procedures, with the ability to drive continuous improvements through post-incident reviews and tabletop exercises.
• Familiar with cloud and hybrid environments (e.g. Azure, M365, SAP), and able to interpret telemetry, SLAs, and failover mechanisms to assess and strengthen service resilience and recovery capabilities.
• Proven ability to work with IT, cyber security, operations, legal, and compliance teams to ensure resilience planning is embedded across technology and third-party service lifecycles.
• Holds certifications in I (BCI), ISO 22301 Lead Implementer, CISSP, CRISC, SAFe DevOps, or relevant experience.

What is it like to work at the EBRD? / About EBRD

Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in.

At EBRD, our Values – Inclusiveness, Innovation, Trust, and Responsibility – are at the heart of how we work. We bring these to life through our Workplace Behaviours: listening well and speaking up, collaborating smartly, acting decisively with full commitment, and simplifying to amplify our impact. These principles shape our culture and define our success. We seek individuals who not only share these values but are also committed to embedding them in their daily work, fostering a positive and high-performing environment.

The EBRD environment provides you with:

Diversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does. As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic background or disability.

Please note, that due to the high volume of applications received, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted (for further consideration).