Resilience & Business Continuity Lead

When you join ASX, you’re joining a company with a strong purpose – to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.

In your new role, you’ll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub. 

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The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines. 

We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology.  Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.

We’re proud of the diversity of our organisation and the culture of inclusion that all our people help to build every day. Our employee-led groups are known for celebrating cultural and religious events, championing LGBTIQ+ inclusion (recently achieving AWEI Bronze), inspiring giving and volunteering, promoting gender equality, and wellbeing.  We are an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (WGEA) and a member of the Champions of Change Coalition for the advancement of gender equality in Australia. 

About the team:

The Resilience & Business Continuity Lead is responsible for improving S&P ecosystems resilience posture. This role ensures that critical services and processes are managed for high availability, disaster recovery, and compliance with license obligations, regulatory standards and relevant best practices.

The ASX Securities and Payments (S&P) Resilience Team is committed to strengthening the business, operational, and technological resilience across all S&P business units, with a strategic focus on Austraclear and CHESS. Our mission is to proactively uplift resilience capabilities, enable rapid recovery from disruptions, and ensure the continuity of critical business services in alignment with license obligations, regulatory expectations and enterprise standards.

What you will be doing:

• Resilience Posture: strengthen S&P’s operational resilience posture by contributing to the development and execution of the resilience strategy, roadmap, governance structures, and operating model.

• Obligations & Standards: ensure resilience initiatives are aligned with ASX license obligations, regulatory standards (e.g., CPS 230, ISO 22301), and internal risk and compliance frameworks, with clear traceability and audit readiness.

• Resilience by Design: implement resiliency in ASX critical ecosystems (CHESS and Austraclear) and delivery lifecycles.

• Continuity & Testing: support and enhance business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities, including fire drill coordination with ASX enterprise teams, third parties, market participants and regulators.

• Resilience Delivery: drive the delivery of resilience initiatives into business unit roadmaps. Support incident reviews and capability uplift.

• Recovery Capabilities: collaborate with business, ops and technical teams to map critical dependencies and failure scenarios. identify alerting, monitoring, and detection requirements.

What you will bring:

Must have

• Proven experience in business continuity.

• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as CPS 230 and ISO 22301 and best practices

• Experience with resilience testing methodologies and tools.

• Experience in 3rd party management.

• Experience in designing and implementing resilience dashboards and metrics

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in financial services or market infrastructure environments. 

• Experience in data and analytics

• Understanding of cloud, cyber, infrastructure, and application architecture.

• Change management experience in resilience program adoption.

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you’ll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria of this role. If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know.

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks completed as part of the on-boarding process.