Location: UK, Edinburgh, Birmingham, London, or Telford
Company: Standard Life
This is a hands-on opportunity to strengthen the resilience of Standard Life’s important and critical business services. You’ll build a deep understanding of how the organization’s services and their dependencies work, help shape how Standard Life prepares for disruption, and design challenging scenarios, stress tests, and simulations that put their resilience to the test.
You’ll get a unique view across the organization, working across business, technology, and third parties to understand complex services, identify vulnerabilities, challenge assumptions, and drive improvements in service resilience.
You’ll get underneath the organization’s services and their dependencies, translate mapping into practical resilience plans, and design testing that explores vulnerabilities and provides evidence of how services perform under disruption.
This isn’t about testing to get a pass. You’ll design testing that challenges assumptions, explores breaking points, and uncovers vulnerabilities before a real disruption does.
Job role:
- Map Standard Life’s important and critical business services end to end, understanding how they operate, what they depend on, and where vulnerabilities, concentrations, or potential points of failure exist.
- Translate mapping into practical resilience plans, working with service owners to strengthen recovery strategies, contingencies, and workarounds.
- Design and deliver deep resilience testing, using challenging scenarios, stress testing, exercises, and simulations to explore how services and their dependencies perform under disruption.
- Push beyond the obvious, testing individual and combined dependency failures, challenging assumptions, and assessing outcomes against impact tolerances and recovery objectives.
- Turn insight into action, using evidence from testing to identify vulnerabilities, drive improvements, and strengthen future mapping, planning, and testing.