NXP Semiconductors

Senior Director, IT Enterprise Resilience

NXP Semiconductors • $160K — $200K *
Austin, TX 78745In-Person
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or advanced degree in IT, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Continuity, Risk Management, or related field.
  • 15+ years in technology resilience, disaster recovery, business continuity, or related areas.
  • Experience leading disaster recovery in complex, global tech environments.
  • Strong grasp of business impact analysis and operational resilience methodologies.
  • Experience managing cross-functional programs involving various stakeholder groups.
  • Knowledge of crisis management and incident command principles.
  • Proven ability to communicate complex technical issues to executive leaders.
  • Experience in conducting organizational recovery exercises and simulations.
  • Familiarity with international resilience standards such as ISO 22301 and ISO 31000.
  • Strong governance skills including report tracking and improvement strategy expertise.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee enterprise disaster recovery governance for technology assets.
  • Lead the Minimum Viable Company program, engaging with cross-functional CIO teams.
  • Define and validate cold start capabilities for essential technology services.
  • Chair quarterly Recovery Owners' Council to ensure alignment on recovery standards.
  • Manage the enterprise recovery exercise calendar, including various recovery methods.
  • Establish IT recovery standards and validate them through exercises and audits.
  • Collaborate with Business Resilience leaders to align recovery and crisis management strategies.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to participate in high-stakes recovery efforts influencing enterprise resilience.
  • Collaboration with senior executive teams and diverse organizational stakeholders.
  • Access to advanced tools and frameworks for disaster and crisis management.
  • Professional development through exposure to industry standards and leading scenarios.
  • Dynamic work environment facing real-world challenges in global technology recovery.
Full Job Description
Role Summary:
  • Accountable for disaster recovery governance, business continuity alignment, the Minimum Viable Company program, cold start capability, crisis readiness, and the enterprise recovery exercise calendar.
  • Coordinate Minimum Viable Company activity across CIO towers and sites on behalf of the CISO and CIO, translating business resilience priorities into technology recovery standards and measurable readiness outcomes.
  • During disruptive events, lead recovery and restoration as the coordinated peer to the Incident Commander, providing disciplined execution, single-source recovery status, and clear reporting to the CISO, CIO, and audit stakeholders.
Job Responsibility:
  • Own enterprise disaster recovery governance for the technology estate, including recovery standards, critical technology dependencies, recovery time objectives, recovery sequencing, ownership, validation expectations, and exception handling.
  • Lead the Minimum Viable Company program for technology recovery, coordinating cross-tower and site-level inputs from CIO teams, information security, operations, business resilience, and other critical stakeholders.
  • Define, maintain, and validate cold start capabilities that enable NXP to restore essential technology services when primary environments, identity, network, collaboration, or tooling capabilities are degraded or unavailable.
  • Chair the quarterly Recovery Owners' Council to align recovery owners on standards, risks, dependencies, exercise findings, remediation actions, and readiness metrics.
  • Build and manage the enterprise recovery exercise calendar, including tabletop, simulation, full-scale, failover, backup and recovery, cyber recovery, out-of-band communications, and site/tower-specific tests.
  • Set IT recovery standards that CIO towers build to, and validate those standards through exercises, tests, after-action reviews, audit findings, management reviews, and measurable corrective actions.
  • Coordinate with Business Resilience & Crisis Management leaders to align disaster recovery, business continuity, crisis readiness, playbooks, BIAs, ORAs, rosters, communication protocols, reporting, and Fusion platform data where applicable.
  • During incidents or crises, lead recovery and restoration activities as a coordinated peer to the Incident Commander, ensuring recovery objectives, resource needs, dependencies, risks, and executive decision points are clear.
  • Report resilience readiness, recovery risks, exercise outcomes, audit results, and remediation progress to the CISO, CIO, Management Team stakeholders, and audit committee forums as required.
  • Drive continuous improvement of enterprise resilience capability through KPIs, lessons learned, third-party or internal audit inputs, regulatory and standards alignment, and pragmatic prioritization of risk reduction across technology services.
Job Qualification:
  • Bachelor's degree or above in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Continuity, Risk Management, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
  • 15+ years of progressive leadership experience across 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, including critical infrastructure, applications, network, identity, cloud, endpoint, data, and collaboration services.
  • Strong understanding of business impact analysis, recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, dependency mapping, operational resilience, service continuity, and recovery validation methods.
  • Experience coordinating cross-functional programs across CIO, CISO, business, manufacturing/site, legal, communications, audit, risk, and executive leadership stakeholders.
  • Practical knowledge of crisis management, incident command concepts, playbooks, communications protocols, after-action reviews, and executive reporting during disruptive events.
  • Ability to translate complex technical dependencies and recovery constraints into clear executive-level decisions, priorities, risk statements, and action plans.
  • Experience designing and executing tabletops, simulation, full-scale, failover, backup and recovery, cyber recovery, and out-of-band communication exercises.
  • Familiarity with international resilience, continuity, crisis, incident, and risk management standards such as ISO 22301, ISO 22316, ISO 22320, ISO 22361, ISO 31000, COSO ERM, and relevant industry requirements.
  • Strong governance discipline with experience establishing standards, metrics, remediation tracking, audit evidence, management reporting, and continuous improvement mechanisms.
  • Proven ability to lead through ambiguity and pressure, maintain calm and credible communications, and coordinate multiple teams toward measurable recovery outcomes.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; able to engage technical teams, senior executives, auditors, and external stakeholders with clarity and credibility.
  • Collaborative, pragmatic leadership style with the ability to influence without direct authority across global teams, sites, and technology towers.
  • Relevant certifications are preferred, such as CBCP, MBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer/Auditor, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, ITIL, or comparable credentials.
  • Willingness to participate in crisis response, exercises, and time-sensitive recovery coordination across global time zones as business needs require.


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About NXP Semiconductors

NXP Semiconductors N.V. is a Dutch semiconductor manufacturer with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The company employs approximately 31,000 people in more than 35 countries, including 11,200 engineers in 33 countries. NXP reported revenue of $8.88 billion in 2020. The company's products are used in a wide range of automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications. NXP is the co-inventor of near field communication (NFC) technology along with Sony and supplies NFC chip sets that enable mobile payments, as well as secure access to cars and buildings.
Learn more about NXP Semiconductors
Size
31,000 employees
Market Cap
$39.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$52 million
Founded
1953
5 Year Trend
+3.1%
Revenue
$8.6 billion
NASDAQ
NXPI
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