You must lead and manage the offshore application support team responsible for mission-critical investment and trading applications operating under a 24x5.5 support model.
You are expected to provide leadership, coaching, mentoring, performance management, resource planning, and roster management to ensure consistent production support coverage.
You must establish effective support procedures, escalation paths, operational standards, and service expectations across the application support function.
You are responsible for ensuring the availability, stability, performance, and operational reliability of supported applications and services.
You must oversee incident management, service requests, problem management, root cause analysis, and timely resolution of production issues.
You are expected to proactively monitor application health and coordinate preventative actions to minimize service disruptions and operational risk.
You must ensure critical batch processes, system interfaces, market data feeds, and trading related services operate within defined service windows.
You are expected to act as the primary technology liaison for Singapore-based business users, translating business priorities into effective application support and service delivery.
You must coordinate support activities across business users, application teams, infrastructure, cybersecurity, database, network, regional technology teams, and external vendors.
You are responsible for communicating major incidents, service status, operational risks, and improvement initiatives to senior management and key stakeholders.
You must manage application vendors and third-party service providers, including service levels, escalations, troubleshooting, upgrades, patches, and issue resolution.
You are expected to drive continuous improvement through enhanced monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, automation, operational documentation, knowledge repositories, and support runbooks.
You must analyse incident trends, recurring issues, service metrics, and operational risks to identify opportunities to improve reliability, resilience, and support effectiveness.
You are responsible for ensuring supported applications comply with internal technology standards, policies, regulatory requirements, and operational controls.
You must support audits, disaster recovery planning, resilience testing, and business continuity exercises, ensuring identified risks and audit findings are appropriately addressed.
You are expected to oversee production changes, application releases, upgrades, and maintenance activities, ensuring appropriate testing, review, approval, implementation, and post-release monitoring.
You must collaborate with infrastructure, cybersecurity, database, and network teams to ensure changes and releases are delivered with minimal business disruption.
Job Requirement
Minimum 10 years of experience supporting and managing mission-critical applications within financial services, capital markets, brokerage, or banking environments.
At least 5 years of leadership experience managing application support or production support teams.
Proven experience managing high-availability, business-critical applications and production support operations.
Strong background in incident management, problem management, service delivery, RCA, operational governance, change management, and release management.
Experience managing offshore support teams and coordinating application services across multiple locations.
Strong stakeholder management experience, with the ability to engage business users, senior management, technology teams, and external vendors.
Proven experience managing third-party application vendors and service providers, including SLA and service performance.
Good understanding of ITIL or IT service management frameworks.
Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a high-pressure environment.
Experience supporting enterprise applications across Microsoft and/or Linux platforms.
Good understanding of databases, SQL, APIs, application interfaces, web services, and middleware technologies.
Experience with application monitoring, observability, logging, batch processing, job scheduling, and operational support tools.
Exposure to scripting and automation for improving operational efficiency and reducing operational risk.
Experience supporting trading, brokerage, clearing, settlement, market data, wealth management, or other capital markets applications is advantageous.
Exposure to cloud platforms and modern monitoring/observability solutions is advantageous.
Knowledge of MSSQL, Web Services, and API integrations is advantageous.
Good understanding or interest in financial markets and trading systems is preferred.