Head of Enterprise & Operational Risk

WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.  We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.    We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise.   Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.    For more information, visit WPP.com.   Why we're hiring: The Head of Infrastructure, Data & Technology Solutions is responsible for establishing and coordinating the infrastructure standards, operating model, governance, and cross-cutting platform capabilities required to run DTS products securely, reliably and consistently.  DTS operates a federated model, where specialist product and platform teams retain autonomy for how they build, deploy and operate their own environments. The Head of Infrastructure ensures those teams operate within a common set of DTS standards for reliability, observability, security, deployment control, cost visibility, operational readiness and resilience.  The role will work closely with the CTO, Chief Architect, SVP Data Collaboration Infrastructure, SVP Security and Compliance, TechOps, Engineering, Product, Enterprise Technology and platform leads across InfoSum, Open Intelligence, Resolve and other DTS capabilities.  The purpose of the role is to create alignment and visibility across infrastructure and providing the autonomy needed by specialist teams to operate according to agreed standards and principles.   What you'll be doing: 1. Infrastructure standards and operating model Define and maintain the common infrastructure standards that DTS platforms must meet.  This includes:  * Working with DTS leadership to define infrastructure principles, minimum standards and operating expectations.  * Establishing standards for reliability, observability, deployment governance, security, resilience, cost visibility and operational readiness.  * Ensuring standards are practical and can be adopted by different DTS platform teams.  * Creating a clear infrastructure operating model that distinguishes between central standards and product-team autonomy.  * Ensuring infrastructure standards are aligned with DTS architecture, security, product and commercial priorities.    1. Federated infrastructure governance Coordinate a federated infrastructure model across DTS.  This includes:  * Ensuring InfoSum, Open Intelligence, Resolve and other platform teams can operate their own infrastructure while meeting common DTS requirements.  * Avoiding unnecessary centralisation that would slow down specialist teams or remove useful autonomy.  * Defining where common tooling or central coordination is required.  * Ensuring each product/platform team has clear infrastructure ownership and accountability.  * Creating mechanisms to monitor whether teams are operating within agreed standards.    1. Alignment with DTS leadership Ensure infrastructure decisions are aligned with senior DTS leadership and broader platform strategy.  This includes:  * Taking direction from the CTO, Chief Architect, SVP Data Collaboration Infrastructure and SVP Security and Compliance on infrastructure priorities.  * Translating DTS architecture and security principles into practical infrastructure standards.  * Working with DTS leaders to resolve trade-offs between autonomy, standardisation, cost, security and reliability.  * Ensuring infrastructure decisions support the wider DTS platform direction.  * Providing leadership with visibility of infrastructure risks, gaps, dependencies and progress.    1. Deployment governance and change visibility Create common deployment governance and production change visibility across DTS.  This includes:  * Defining minimum standards for production deployment processes.  * Establishing central visibility of who deployed what, when and where.  * Supporting release gates, change records and deployment auditability.  * Enabling teams to use their own deployment tooling while reporting into a common deployment record.  * Supporting mechanisms to pause or control deployments during high-risk or sensitive periods.  * Ensuring deployment activity can be correlated with incidents, outages and platform instability.    1. Observability,monitoringand operational visibility  Define common observability and monitoring expectations across DTS platforms.  This includes:  * Establishing standards for logging, metrics, tracing, alerting and dashboards.  * Ensuring product teams provide the right operational and security telemetry.  * Supporting cross-platform visibility for incidents, chained attacks, service degradation and performance issues.  * Working with Security Operations on SIEM, SOC and threat detection requirements.  * Ensuring infrastructure and application events are visible to the right operational teams.    1. Reliability,resilienceand operational readiness  Ensure DTS platforms meet agreed reliability and resilience expectations.  This includes:  * Defining standards for service-level objectives, availability, recovery, incident readiness and operational maturity.  * Working with platform teams to ensure services are designed and operated to appropriate reliability levels.  * Supporting disaster recovery, business continuity and operational readiness requirements.  * Ensuring teams have appropriate runbooks, escalation paths and incident response processes.  * Tracking recurring operational issues and ensuring they are addressed through the appropriate teams.    1. Infrastructure security alignment Work with Security and Compliance to ensure infrastructure standards support DTS security requirements.  This includes:  * Ensuring infrastructure standards reflect security requirements around access control, network exposure, ingress/egress, secrets, logging and hardening.  * Working with the Cloud and Platform Security Lead where applicable.  * Ensuring teams provide evidence that required infrastructure security controls are in place.  * Supporting the reduction of unnecessary public exposure across DTS services.  * Ensuring infrastructure governance supports audit, compliance and client assurance requirements.    1. Cost visibility and capacity oversight Establish infrastructure cost transparency and capacity visibility across DTS.  This includes:  * Defining standards for cloud cost reporting and allocation.  * Ensuring teams can report infrastructure cost by product, platform, client or workload where appropriate.  * Identifying areas of duplication, waste or inefficient infrastructure use.  * Supporting capacity planning across growing DTS platforms and AI/data workloads.  * Providing leadership with clear visibility of infrastructure cost drivers and optimisation opportunities.    1. Relationship with TechOps Work closely with the TechOps function while maintaining clear ownership boundaries.  TechOps is responsible for day-to-day delivery operations, environment support, release coordination and operational support to engineering teams.  The Head of Infrastructure is responsible for defining infrastructure standards, governance, shared visibility, reliability expectations and cross-DTS platform coordination.  This includes:  * Partnering with TechOps to ensure infrastructure standards are practical in delivery workflows.  * Using TechOps feedback to identify recurring operational issues and improvement opportunities.  * Avoiding duplication of TechOps responsibilities.  * Ensuring delivery operations and infrastructure governance operate as a joined-up capability.  * Clarifying when issues should be handled by TechOps, product engineering, infrastructure teams, security or DTS leadership.    1. Common tooling and shared platform capabilities Identify and coordinate shared tooling where it benefits DTS.  This includes:  * Assessing where common tooling should be used for deployment governance, observability, incident management, cost reporting, infrastructure inventory and operational reporting.  * Avoiding unnecessary standardisation where teams need specialist tooling.  * Supporting common integration points rather than forcing all teams onto identical infrastructure stacks.  * Defining central capabilities that allow teams to remain autonomous while providing DTS-wide visibility.  * Working with Architecture and Infrastructure teams to introduce shared services where there is clear value.      Who you'll be working with: The Head of Infrastructure will be accountable for:  * Common DTS infrastructure standards and operating model.  * Federated infrastructure governance across DTS platforms.  * Alignment of infrastructure activity with DTS leadership direction.  * Deployment governance and production change visibility.  * Observability, monitoring and operational visibility standards.  * Reliability, resilience and operational readiness expectations.  * Infrastructure cost visibility and reporting.  * Clear distinction and partnership between Infrastructure and TechOps.  * Infrastructure alignment with DTS architecture, security and compliance requirements.  * Ensuring platform teams retain autonomy while meeting common DTS standards.    What you'll need: The successful candidate will have:  * Multiple years of experience overseeing infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, cloud operations or technology operations leadership.  * Strong understanding of cloud platforms, deployment models, observability, reliability, infrastructure governance and operational resilience.  * Experience working in federated or matrixed technology organisations.  * Ability to define standards and operating models without over-centralising delivery.  * Strong understanding of CI/CD, deployment governance, incident management, monitoring, logging and production operations.  * Good knowledge of infrastructure security, access control, network exposure, cloud posture and operational risk.  * Ability to influence senior technical leaders and product/platform teams without relying solely on line authority.  * Strong stakeholder management skills across Engineering, Architecture, Security, Product, TechOps and Enterprise Technology.  * Ability to balance autonomy, consistency, security, reliability and delivery speed.  * Clear communication skills and the ability to create practical standards that teams can adopt.    Leadership expectations  The Head of Infrastructure is expected to:  * Act as a coordinator and enabler, not a central blocker.  * Respect the autonomy of specialist product and platform teams.  * Create clarity around infrastructure standards and expectations.  * Work closely with DTS senior leadership and take direction from agreed architecture and security strategy.  * Build trust with TechOps, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security and Product teams.  * Challenge teams where infrastructure practices create risk, poor visibility or operational weakness.  * Avoid unnecessary centralisation while reducing fragmentation where it creates risk.  * Provide clear reporting on infrastructure health, cost, reliability and operational readiness.    Success measures  Success in the role will be measured by:  * DTS having clear and adopted infrastructure standards.  * Product and platform teams operating autonomously while meeting common DTS expectations.  * Improved visibility of deployments and production changes across DTS.  * Better observability and monitoring across DTS platforms.  * Clearer understanding of infrastructure ownership and operational accountability.  * Improved ability to correlate incidents with deployments and infrastructure changes.  * Reduced infrastructure fragmentation where it creates operational, security or cost risk.  * Improved infrastructure cost transparency.  * Stronger alignment between Infrastructure, TechOps, Security, Architecture and Engineering.  * Leadership having confidence in the reliability, visibility and governability of DTS infrastructure.  Who you are: You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working. You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected. You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.   What we'll give you: Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work. Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry. Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge? #LI-Hybrid  We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. PLEASE READ OUR PRIVACY NOTICE (HTTPS://WWW.WPP.COM/EN/CAREERS/WPP-PRIVACY-POLICY-FOR-RECRUITMENT) FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW WE PROCESS THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE.

Brunswick Group

OPPORTUNITY Reporting to the Group Head of ICT Infrastructure, the Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Engineer will be responsible for designing, embedding, and continuously strengthening Brunswick’s Disaster Recovery and operational resilience capability across our global technology estate. This is both a strategic and hands-on engineering role focused on ensuring Brunswick can recover rapidly and effectively from cyber incidents, ransomware, system outages, infrastructure failure, or wider operational disruption. The successful candidate will help move the organisation from documented recovery intent to fully engineered, tested, and measurable recovery capability. Working closely with Technology, Security, and business stakeholders, you will design and validate recovery strategies that safeguard client delivery, protect data integrity, and maintain operational continuity. You will own the BC/DR roadmap, ensuring recovery planning evolves in line with emerging cyber threats, business growth, and changes to our technology landscape. This is a critical role for an experienced infrastructure engineer with a strong resilience mindset who is motivated to build and mature a foundational safeguard within a global professional services firm. ABOUT THE ROLE We are a key service provider to the business, delivering ICT services to colleagues across 27 offices globally. Our ICT department comprises Security, Infrastructure, Service, Applications, AI and Programme Management teams working collaboratively to deliver secure, reliable, and resilient technology services. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include: * Own and develop Brunswick’s Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategy across infrastructure and business critical platforms. * Design and implement resilient architectures that minimise impact from cyber attack, ransomware, infrastructure failure, or cloud disruption. * Define and continuously refine Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) across critical services. * Conduct regular disaster recovery testing, cyber incident simulation exercises, and failover validation. * Work closely with the ICT Security team to integrate BCDR planning into broader cyber defence and incident response frameworks. * Assess and reduce cyber related operational risk by validating backup integrity, isolation controls, and recovery sequencing. * Develop structured playbooks for recovery from ransomware, identity compromise, large-scale outage, and data loss scenarios. * Provide technical leadership during major incidents, acting as a resilience SME during cyber or operational crises. * Ensure new systems, projects, and architectural changes are designed with resilience and recoverability embedded by default. * Maintain detailed documentation covering recovery workflows, escalation models, and crisis communication pathways. * Build strong internal recovery capability, reducing reliance on external providers during high-pressure situations. * Partner with senior stakeholders to ensure recovery capabilities meet client, regulatory, and governance expectations. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Broad technical We are seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer with a strong cyber resilience mindset and a proactive approach to operational risk reduction. Minimum experience and capabilities: * 5+ years’ experience in infrastructure engineering within a hybrid cloud environment. * Demonstrable experience designing and implementing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity frameworks. * Strong understanding of cyber threat vectors, particularly ransomware, identity compromise, and cloud service disruption. * Experience supporting or participating in cyber incident response and post-incident recovery. * Deep understanding of backup integrity, replication strategies, failover architectures, and high-availability design. * Experience defining and managing RPO and RTO in enterprise environments. * Ability to assess technical risk and design pragmatic, resilient recovery strategies. * Strong cross functional collaboration skills, particularly with Security and senior leadership. * Calm, structured, and analytical under pressure. * Strong written documentation skills, capable of producing executive ready recovery and resilience documentation. * Appreciation of regulatory, client, and governance expectations around operational resilience and cyber preparedness. Desirable: * Certifications in cloud architecture, cybersecurity, or business continuity disciplines. * Experience in professional services or highly client-facing environments. * Experience leading structured disaster recovery or cyber simulation exercises. WHY JOIN US Whether you are joining a client facing team, a core services team, or starting out on your professional career journey, joining Brunswick unlocks a range of employee benefits to support your financial future, health and wellness, family and community and continuous professional development. ABOUT BRUNSWICK Brunswick is a global advisory firm. We help companies tackle high-stakes issues, navigate complex stakeholder relationships, and deliver high-impact outcomes.  Our clients value our ability to anticipate, shape, and respond to the key players and forces in the financial and investment arena, regulatory and geopolitical universe, NGO community, workforce and beyond. They rely on us for deep experience, fresh perspectives and original thinking. So, in Brunswick you will find an exceptional range of experience and talent with a rich mix of backgrounds. From the beginning, we have prioritized attracting, developing, and retaining the best professionals in the industry, united by a culture of inclusivity, excellence, and intellectual curiosity. Founded in 1987 in London, the firm has organically grown to 27 offices in 18 countries across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. We operate as a “one-firm firm” with no individual profit centers. This allows us to assemble fully integrated, bespoke teams for each client, able to draw on the full resources of Brunswick anywhere in the world.    Brunswick is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law. Please read our Global Privacy Notice to understand how your data is managed.

Behavox

ABOUT BEHAVOX Behavox is a cloud-native AI company providing an integrated controls platform for global banks, asset managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, insurance businesses, and commodity firms. The platform unifies communications and trade surveillance, compliant archiving, policy management as well as front-office analytics on a single, AI-native technology stack, delivered as a globally scalable SaaS-based cloud service. At Behavox, our engineering culture is built around speed, experimentation, and technical excellence, following agile principles and rapid iteration. We constantly test and adopt the latest cloud technologies and AI tooling, optimising for fast feedback loops and execution. We look for people who can move fast, challenge conventional wisdom, and who want to work at the frontier of modern AI, SaaS platforms, and distributed systems. Behavox is a high-performance organisation with a strong bias toward delivery, ownership, and responsibility. We commit, and we execute. We are building systems that are complex, mission-critical, and global in scale; systems that many consider too large or too difficult. To do that, we seek the smartest, most technically capable engineers and technologists who take end-to-end responsibility and want to win by building what others cannot. Founded in 2014 and backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, Behavox is headquartered in London, with offices worldwide, including New York City, Montreal, Seattle, Singapore, and Tokyo. ABOUT THE ROLE The Director of Sales is responsible for leading a regional sales organization based in London, with accountability for Account Executives and Sales Development Representatives supporting the UK, Nordics, Middle East, APAC, and Africa. The role owns regional sales execution, pipeline generation, forecasting accuracy, and attainment of revenue objectives across the assigned territories, ensuring consistent execution of the company's sales strategy while adapting to regional market dynamics. The Director executes the regional operating cadence established by the Chief Revenue Officer and Global Head of Sales, ensuring consistent inspection, forecasting, pipeline management, and performance reviews across both the Account Executive and Sales Development Representative organizations. The role is accountable for regional execution, sales forecasting, pipeline health, coaching and development, and delivering regional sales outcomes. The Director is expected to actively engage in strategic sales opportunities, partnering with Account Executives throughout complex deal cycles, providing executive-level deal coaching, helping shape win strategies, and building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders at customer and prospect organizations to advance high-value opportunities and improve win rates. The Director also provides regional business insights and execution feedback to the Chief Revenue Officer and Global Head of Sales to support informed decision-making. This is a hybrid role (2-3 days in our London office).  WHAT YOU'LL BRING 1. Enterprise Sales Management — Owns the execution of enterprise sales practices across multiple international territories, ensuring consistent opportunity management, forecasting discipline, and adherence to the established sales methodology throughout the regional sales organization. 2. Pipeline Generation Strategy — Owns the regional approach to pipeline generation, aligning Sales Development Representative activities with territory priorities, account targeting, and sales objectives to maintain a healthy pipeline of qualified opportunities. 3. Regional Market Dynamics — Applies knowledge of commercial, regulatory, and competitive conditions across the UK, Nordics, Middle East, APAC, and Africa to guide territory execution, account prioritization, and customer engagement. 4. Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Governance — Owns forecast quality, pipeline health, and inspection processes, using data and operational insight to identify execution risks and improve revenue predictability. 5. Territory Planning and Account Coverage — Partners with the Head of Global Sales to execute territory planning, account prioritization, and resource allocation across Account Executives and Sales Development Representatives, ensuring effective market coverage and alignment with regional growth objectives. WHAT YOU'LL DO 1. Regional Sales Leadership — Leads teams of Account Executives and Sales Development Representatives to achieve regional pipeline and revenue objectives through performance management, coaching, and consistent execution of established sales methodologies. 2. Strategic Deal Execution — Personally supports high-value and complex sales opportunities by partnering with Account Executives on deal strategy, qualification, negotiation, and executive engagement, taking ownership for advancing critical opportunities while developing trusted relationships with senior decision-makers at customer and prospect organizations. 3. Pipeline Generation Management — Owns regional pipeline generation performance by establishing prospecting priorities, monitoring Sales Development Representative execution, and ensuring a sustainable flow of qualified opportunities into the sales pipeline. 4. Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Governance — Owns regional forecasting processes, validates pipeline quality through disciplined inspection, and provides accurate revenue projections aligned with the operating cadence established by the Chief Revenue Officer and Global Head of Sales. 5. Territory Execution and Capacity Management — Partners with the Head of Global Sales to execute territory plans, optimize Account Executive and Sales Development Representative capacity, monitor regional coverage, and recommend adjustments that improve sales productivity and market penetration. WHAT WE OFFER * The opportunity to work on a global, mission-critical AI platform alongside the best engineers and technologists across multiple geographies. * A role with real ownership and impact, building complex systems at scale in an environment that values speed, experimentation, and technical excellence. * A highly attractive benefits package, including competitive cash compensation, an equity award aligned with long-term value creation, and comprehensive health insurance for employees and their families. * Modern, comfortable offices in London, New York, and Virginia. Two - three days in office per week is required. * A generous time-off policy of 30 days annually, plus public holidays and sick leave, recognizing the importance of sustained high performance. ABOUT OUR PROCESS We take Talent very seriously and we are building a community of extraordinary individuals working together in very high performing teams. We also know that the best Talent always has options so we believe that the process has to be a two way assessment - the company AND the candidate assessing the business needs alignment, the career next step alignment, and the cultural alignment.  During the process we will begin by exploring the core factors regarding salary and location along with core experience and skills and values alignment. We will then deep dive explore the critical technical competencies we have identified for the role, and then we will deep dive in behavioural competencies. The most aligned candidate will then be asked to do a practical work task simulation activity so we can make sure that you will enjoy the kind of work the role requires, and this task will typically be presented and discussed with a group of colleagues and managers. Finally we will ask you to meet with a number of our senior leaders to make sure that you are making the most informed call possible. PLEASE NOTE THAT: * We want to get to know you and have a genuine conversation, so the use of AI tools or assistance during live interviews is strictly prohibited and will result in immediate disqualification from the process  * Interviews may be recorded for internal review purposes to ensure fairness and enable collaborative hiring discussions within the team.