Design a Bank-Grade Business Continuity Plan (BCP) for FinTech SaaS with RTO ≤ 15 min, RPO ≤ 30 s

• 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.