Responsibilities: * Leads and drives the Level 2 production incident and problem management processes
Maintain stakeholder relationships while responding to both critical and routine application support requests and coordinates with other support teams and product vendors as required
Prioritise all incidents based on impact and urgency as well as assessing resources and capacity
He/She will seek to understand the reported symptoms and the extent of the disruption and determine the level of urgency to apply to the resolution of the issue
This initial triage will determine ticket priority criticality establish Service Level Agreement expectations for response resolution time and determine what processes and resources will be leveraged to resolve the issue
Leads one or more Application support teams
Chairs the incident and problem review meetings
Be the key point of contact for coordination and communication for technology team
Takes ownership and performs controlled resolution of incidents and problems working with Business Incident manager within defined SLAs
Timely determine the severity impact of the incident and escalate communicate to stakeholders
Work with technical teams to identify temporary workarounds and determine estimation time on resolution
Work with technical teams to identify root cause and prepare technical incident report
Attend post incident review meeting together with Business Incident Manager to report root cause and preventive measures taken to senior IT management and business management
Track permanent resolution and create knowledge base for future reference
Champion stability initiatives to enable application high availability for BAU which includes better monitoring failover and resiliency
Contributes to and ensures adherence to Incident and Problem Management processes
Supports and provides inputs to audit regulatory and compliance requirements
Manages regular reporting and customer satisfaction initiatives to achieve suitable outcome for all stakeholders
Must have 10-15 years working experience working in a banking or financial institute in a similar role