Business Continuity Manager - Technical

The position is based in Roskilde or Warsaw at BEC Financial Technologies' headquarters. The position is organizationally anchored in Service Integration & Security with reference to the Head of Projects & Continuity.

The Service Integration & Security area is responsible for ensuring robust, reliable, and compliant operations across BEC. We work closely with stakeholders across the organization to strengthen operational resilience, including business continuity, IT disaster recovery, crisis management, and risk governance.

As Business Continuity Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring that BEC can continue critical operations during and after disruptive incidents. You will drive the development, implementation, and maintenance of BEC’s continuity framework and collaborate across all domains, programs, and areas.

At BEC, we prefer to collaborate often in the office, while also offering the opportunity to work remotely on average up to 1 day per week.

Primary tasks and responsibilities include:

Continuity & resilience framework:

• Implementing and maintaining BEC’s business continuity management framework
• Maintaining governance for continuity-related processes (Business Continuity, IT Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, Business Impact Analysis, IT redundancy, Backup & Restore)
• Developing and maintaining Business Continuity Plans (BCPs), Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs), and Crisis Management Plans
• Defining and maintaining technical requirements for backup and restore processes, including backup scope, retention, encryption, immutability, recovery procedures, and restore validation
• Translating business impact and recovery objectives into technical IT disaster recovery requirements, dependencies, and recovery sequencing
• Defining and assessing redundancy requirements for critical infrastructure, applications, data, and third-party services, including identification of single points of failure and failover capabilities
• Ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations (e.g., ISO 22301)
  
  
  

Coordination & stakeholder engagement:

• Coordinating with stakeholders across 1st line, IT, and support functions to assess risks and define recovery strategies
• Collaborating with system owners, SMEs, and process owners to ensure alignment between business and IT recovery capabilities
  
  
  

Testing, exercises & continuous improvement:

• Facilitating continuity, IT disaster recovery, and crisis exercises (e.g., table-top tests and simulations)
• Planning and evaluating technical recovery tests, including backup restore tests, component and service failover, and end-to-end disaster recovery exercises
• Ensuring lessons learned from incidents and exercises are incorporated into the framework
• Driving continuous improvement of continuity capabilities.
  
  
  

Governance, reporting & insight:

• Delivering reporting and presentations on continuity readiness, and performance
• Supporting management with insights into operational resilience, and recovery capabilities
  
  
  

To succeed you will have:

• Experience working with business continuity, IT disaster recovery, or operational resilience
• Knowledge of continuity frameworks, BIA, BCP, DRP, and Crisis Management practices
• Solid technical understanding of enterprise backup and restore processes, including backup architecture, retention, replication, encryption, immutability, recovery validation, and common failure scenarios
• Experience reviewing or developing technical IT disaster recovery plans, including recovery architectures, system dependencies, recovery sequencing, and alignment with RTO and RPO targets
• Ability to assess redundancy and resilience designs across infrastructure, networks, applications, databases, and cloud services, and to identify single points of failure
• Capability to challenge technical solutions and document clear, testable recovery, backup, restore, and redundancy requirements in collaboration with architects, engineers, system owners, and service providers
• Experience facilitating workshops, or cross-organizational processes
• Stakeholder management skills and can collaborate across technical and business domains
• Structure, analytical skills, and ability to translate complex risks into clear actions
• A proactive approach and capability of driving initiatives across the organization
• Ability to communicate clearly in English, both written and spoken
  
  
  

It’s nice-to-have:

• Experience with enterprise backup platforms, storage technologies, high-availability solutions, infrastructure, or cloud recovery patterns
• Experience from the financial sector or a regulated IT environment
• Familiarity with IT Service Management processes
  
  
  

The role will offer:

• A key role in strengthening BEC’s operational resilience and continuity capabilities
• High visibility across the organization and interaction with senior stakeholders
• The opportunity to shape and evolve BEC’s continuity practices
• A collaborative environment with strong professional expertise
• A role with tangible impact on BEC’s ability to operate under disruption
  
  
  

Be your best self with BEC's benefits!

We offer a diverse range of benefits for our employees. Here are just a few of them.

• Professional development budget
• Healthy, varied lunch and fruit in the canteen
• Active staff associations: yoga, cycling, go-karting, games, bowling etc.
• Pension scheme
• Health and dentist insurance
• Referral bonus
  
  
  

What does the recruitment process look like?

• Send us your CV: We want to get to know you
• Screening call: Let's chat and see if we're a match
• Meet your future manager and team: See who you'll be working closely with.
• Personality and cognitive test: Let's learn more about you.
• Meet our talent partner and your future manager once more: Get feedback on your test results.
• Time to sign the contract: We're ready to welcome you to BEC!
  
  
  

If you have any questions related to the position, please contact Head of Projects & Continuity, Kim Bastholm on +45 61 56 76 10.

BEC is in the process of being acquired by our largest customer and co-owner, Nykredit, which is Denmark's largest mortgage provider and third-largest bank. We will become part of a new and larger organization called Nykredit Financial Technologies. In the transition phase, we are recruiting for roles that we expect to be highly needed in our future organization.