Senior Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Consultant

Senior BC/DR-consulting work runs across the full engagement lifecycle at the senior level — leading assessment phases (BIAs, risk analyses, gap reviews against ISO 22301 or NIST SP 800-34), designing strategic-program improvements, supporting major implementation engagements, and serving as the senior client-relationship voice on practice engagements. The senior consultant works client environments, BC/DR platforms (Fusion, Archer, Onsolve), methodology frameworks, and the cross-functional teams enterprise BC/DR practice involves. Client outcomes, engagement quality, and practice contribution drive the operating measures.

What distinguishes senior consulting from junior work is the strategic-and-relationship dimension — senior consultants design BC/DR programs that operate at enterprise scale, work directly with executive sponsors, and develop the client relationships that sustain consulting practice over years. Variance is wide: at Big Four the senior consultant works within structured cyber-and-resilience practices; at specialty BC/DR firms the engagements run deeper on subject matter; at independent practice the work is more entrepreneurial.

This role fits people who are deeply BC/DR-fluent, comfortable with executive-client conversations, and disciplined under the utilization pressure consulting practice involves. CBCP, MBCP, MBCI credentials, and ongoing CE anchor seniority. The trade-off is the consulting travel the work involves and the constant utilization-and-business-development push that defines billable practice.