Design a Bank-Grade Business Continuity Plan (BCP) for FinTech SaaS with RTO ≤ 15 min, RPO ≤ 30 s
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Budget
$4,800.00Level
SeniorLocation
United StatesJob Posted
26 Sep, 2025Category
backupTotal Proposals
0Job Description
Executive Pain-Point:
You are a CTO of a FinTech processing $600 M daily payments. Regulators mandate a living BCP that guarantees 15 min RTO and 30 s RPO during region-wide AWS outage. You need documented playbooks, quarterly drills, and board-level evidence—not a generic template.
Senior-Level Outcomes You Will Achieve:
- RTO ≤ 15 min (money movement resumes).
- RPO ≤ 30 s (zero transaction loss).
- ISO-22301 compliant document set.
- Board-approved drill calendar 12 months ahead.
Deep-Dive Scope I Will Own:
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- Workshop with CFO, Head of Risk, Head of Engineering (2 × 2 h).
- Map critical business functions (payments, settlements, KYC) → MTD, MAD values.
- Quantify financial exposure: $12 M/hour during peak FX window.
- Risk Assessment & Scenario Modelling
- AWS region outage, DNS hijack, ransomware, third-party PSP down.
- Monte-Carlo simulation → probability × impact matrix.
- Technical Recovery Architecture
- Multi-region active-active Aurora Postgres (Global Database).
- Cross-region ElastiCache Global Datastore for session stickiness.
- Route 53 ARC zonal shift API → 15 s traffic flip.
- Stateless micro-services pre-scaled 2× during drill window.
- Playbook Library (Print-Ready)
- Incident Response (gold silver bronze roles).
- Communication tree (Twilio call-tree + Signal group).
- Decision matrix: when to declare major incident vs minor.
- Drill & Validation
- Table-top exercise Week-1, functional drill Week-12.
- Chaos test: simulate Aurora failover → measured RTO = 11 min.
- Post-mortem + board slide-deck with metrics and lessons.
Enterprise Deliverables:
- BIA report ( 40 pages ) + executive summary ( 4 pages ).
- Playbook bundle ( incident, communication, decision ) PDF + Confluence.
- Drill evidence: RTO/RPO logs, Chaos experiment JSON, board minutes.
- ISO-22301 gap-analysis checklist signed by external auditor.
Skills
- Risk assessment and analysis
- Business continuity planning (BCP) process
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