Job Description

About the RoleThe candidate will be a member of the IT Service Management team. The IT Service Owner is responsible for end to end of the production environment for their assigned applications service. The candidate is accountable and responsible to ensure quality IT services are delivered accordingly to the business expectations. Acts as the first point of contact for Operations, Support, Maintenance and overarching service lifecycle related questions. Good knowledge of IT systems in banking domain is a must. Understanding of Private Banking would be advantageous.

• Manage operating model to ensure support levels and effort sharing of operational tasks (e.g. monitoring of service availability and performance) with 1st and 2nd Level Support
• Adopting the SRE principles of incident responds and communication, driving faster incident turnaround time, achieving better users\xe2\x80\x99 satisfaction.
• Drive incidents reduction thru Blameless incident retrospective methodology, looking at all the incidents contributing factors and definition of proactive measures to provide sustainable problem solutions as part of application improvement plan.
• Provide input for the annual budget request, assist in the management of the required capacity, monitor cost actuals vs. budget.
• Execute required audits, controls (e.g. access rights), annual risk assessment in order to identify operational IT risks and manage related risk mitigations and actions. Manage IT Security process (e.g. firewalls) for service
• Part of the run-the-bank agile transformation initiative.

Production Support Governance

• Managing the L2 Support for the day-to-day incidents/service requests and problems in the IT environment. Ensuring all SLAs defined for Production Support are met.
• Aligns with providers and infrastructure in respect to lifecycle for IT Service: Planning and Execution Support the System Architect in the raising and maintenance of technical debts
• Drive continuous service improvement thru incident post-mortem and incident trend analysis, defining proactive measures to provide sustainable problem solutions as part of application improvement plan.
• Adopting SRE principles to help build a more robust and stable production.

Change and Release Management

• Reviews and performs risk-assessment of operational changes affecting the owned IT-Service including the post-implementation review of the changes.
• Adjusts and approves release plans with the Application Responsible, ensuring all SLAs defined for Production Support are met. Identify hotspots and areas for continuous improvement.
• Ensures proper implementation of non-functional requirements together with the Application Responsible

Business Management

• Liaise and engage with business stakeholders as part of the service level management functions

Regulatory Responsibilities &/OR Risk Management

• Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Identifies and monitors operational risks of an IT-Operation Service according to Risk Management.
• Support DR/BCP activities in assigned application areas and ensure smooth and seamless completion of activity within regulatory guidelines.

Job Requirements

• Candidates must have least 10 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in Production support in a banking environment.
• Candidates must have exposure to technical requirements analysis, planning, configuration management, and hands-on technical skills.
• Knowledge of ITIL concepts.
• Ability to analyse problems, provide short term, and long term solutions.
• Knowledge of SRE methodology for incident respond, application observability implementation
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Conscientious in ensuring defined SLAs are met.
• Ability to interact and coordinate with business users within a financial institution.
• Strong relationship management and conflict resolution skills.

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