Disaster Recovery Application Lead

General information

Career area Technology Work Location(s) 500 Woodward Avenue, MI, 601 S. Tryon Street, NC Remote? No Ref # 19980 Posted Date 08-04-25 Working time Full time

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?
Work Schedule: Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.

The Opportunity

Ally is seeking a application lead to help drive disaster recovery plan for the technology organization. This role would be responsible for developing ADRP plan, executing the plan, documenting the findings to management and provide technical/non-technical help to application teams to conduct a successful disaster recovery. The ideal candidate will have equal experience working on documenting requirements for DR, knowledge of Jira, Service now, Confluence, word, ppt, excel is a must. The candidate should know how to engage various teams and rally the troop to make disaster a success. The candidate should also have working knowledge of cloud providers preferably AWS, Gitlab, Terraform and various databases. (These are good to have but not must for this job)

At Ally, you get a startup feel, but experience the benefits of a company that’s worked out the kinks and is fulfilling its purpose. We’re always evolving and see that as a good thing. From owning our work to seeing its impact in the real world, our team is relentless in finding new ways technology can help make experiences better and help people. We are problem solvers, we value diverse thinking, we support one another, and we challenge ourselves to think bigger in the journey to deliver customer-obsessed tech solutions. To read more about what our tech team does, be sure to visit our tech blog at ally.tech

At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The Work Itself

• Collaborate with other team member as a member of an Agile [Scrum/Kanban] team and provide significant contributions to iterative rapid DR cycle execution.
• Use technical knowledge, creativity and company practices and priorities to create solu