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IT Business Continuity Lead
Sizewell C

Location: Based in London on a hybrid basis with travel to Suffolk as required.
Contract: Permanent, full-time.
Salary: Competitive dependant on experience, plus benefits
Benefits include:
Annual Leave: 28 days per annum, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service, plus bank holidays.
Bonus: 5% annual bonus.
Pension Contributions: Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with up to 7.5% employee contribution 15% employer contribution.

Closing Date: Thursday 28th May 2026.

Sizewell C is entering an exciting phase of growth as we mature into an independent organisation and continue building one of the UK’s largest and most important energy projects, supported by resilient, secure, and recoverable technology services.

About the Role

Sizewell C is seeking an experienced IT Business Continuity Lead to develop, implement, and maintain robust IT business continuity, disaster recovery, and technology resilience arrangements across one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure and clean energy programmes.

This is a critical leadership role supporting IT operational resilience, cyber resilience, incident response, service continuity, and recovery planning within a highly regulated environment. The successful candidate will work across digital, security, infrastructure, applications, operational technology interfaces, contractors, and external stakeholders to ensure critical systems can be sustained or recovered through all phases of the project lifecycle.

Sizewell C places strong emphasis on safety, quality, resilience, cyber preparedness, and regulatory compliance as part of its integrated approach to delivering a nationally important nuclear programme supported by dependable technology and information services.

About You

• Proven experience in IT Business Continuity, IT Disaster Recovery, Operational Resilience, Cyber Resilience, or Technology Service Continuity roles
• Strong understanding of Business Continuity Management Systems, ISO 22301 principles, and the alignment between business continuity, disaster recovery, and information security practices
• Experience operating within regulated sectors such as nuclear, energy, infrastructure, transportation, defence, or other environments where resilience of critical technology services is essential
• Demonstrated experience facilitating IT recovery exercises, scenario testing, incident response activities, and post-incident lessons learned reviews
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical teams
• Strong analytical, planning, and organisational capability, including experience with business impact analysis, dependency mapping, recovery objectives, and continuity governance

Why Join Us?

• Play a leading role in strengthening the resilience of critical technology services supporting one of the UK’s most important low-carbon energy projects.
• Work in a mission-driven environment that values resilience, innovation, integrity, cyber preparedness, and long-term sustainability.
• Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities to shape and mature IT continuity and recovery capability.
• Flexible and hybrid working options, with the opportunity to collaborate across business and technology teams.

Key Competencies

Behavioural Competences

Humility

Recognise the value brought by different technical disciplines, operational teams, partners, and delivery perspectives when building resilient services
Be open to challenge and expert input when assessing risks, dependencies, recovery priorities, and continuity strategies

Positivity

Positively challenge weak controls, single points of failure, and gaps in recovery readiness
Identify practical continuity and recovery solutions at the appropriate operational level while supporting enterprise-wide resilience objectives
Encourage teams and suppliers to bring forward new ideas that improve service resilience, recovery capability, and cyber preparedness

Respect

Value the regulatory, security, and operational environment in which critical technology and information services operate
Give and receive feedback with respect during exercises, incidents, reviews, and recovery planning activities
Embrace and engage with new people, technologies, and approaches that strengthen continuity and recovery outcomes

Solidarity

One team, working closely together across business, digital, security, and suppliers to maintain critical services
Empowered teams always looking ahead to reduce disruption and improve recovery readiness
Shared responsibility for protecting, sustaining, and recovering the technology capabilities that enable project delivery

Clarity

Communicate clearly and consistently on continuity priorities, recovery status, risks, and decision points
Promote collaboration and alignment across business continuity, cyber security, infrastructure, and service owners
Enable clear and timely decision-making during incidents, exercises, and service recovery activities
Drive simplification in continuity documentation, recovery processes, and governance at all levels

If you are ready to lead IT business continuity and strengthen recovery resilience across a nationally significant programme, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.