Job description:
Responsibilities
Leadership and Team Management
- Lead and mentor L2 support teams, fostering a culture of excellence and accountability.
- Develop team competencies through coaching, training, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Oversee resource planning to maintain high service level, including on-call rotations and capacity management.
- Oversee the L2 team in issue detection and works toward system recovery and stability.
- Establish and monitor quality assurance processes to ensure that all changes meet required standards before release.
Incident and Problem Management
- Drive efficient incident management and resolution processes to ensure swift recovery and minimal impact on services.
- Conduct root cause analysis and implement preventive measures to enhance system reliability and resiliency
- Collaborate with other teams, including L1 support, development and operations to improve incident response time and service quality.
Service Delivery and Improvements
- Define and implement SLAs, OLAs, and KPIs aligned with business objectives and compliance standards.
- Identify and implement process improvements, including automation of workflows.
- Partner with other technology teams to ensure proactive monitoring, performance optimisation and smooth release management.
Documentation and Knowledge Management
- Establish and maintain comprehensive documentation, ensuring critical knowledge is retained and accessible across teams.
- Lead initiatives to improve documentation accuracy, accessibility, and completeness to support service continuity.
Compliance and Risk Management
- Ensure all support activities comply with regulatory requirements
- Participate in audits and contribute to the development of policies and procedures to meet security and compliance standards.
- Improving security and compliance posture
Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as the primary point of contact for high-severity incidents and provide clear, timely updates to leadership and business stakeholders.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders across the organisation to understand business needs, drive alignment and support change management.
Requirements:
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field. A master’s degree or relevant advanced certification would be highly advantageous.
- At least 20 years of IT operations, application support and/or software engineering background with at least 10 years in a leadership role within the financial services, payment, or banking industry, focusing on mission-critical, high-availability services and complex IT infrastructure.
- Possess a breadth of IT experience, expertise in digital transformation with a strong understanding of design methodologies
Skills and Knowledge
- Good understanding of mission critical and highly available complex IT services
- Good level of technical appreciation of datacentre and cloud infrastructure
- Familiar with IT security and cyber security best practices
- Possess a high-level overview of information technology governance
- Strong awareness of modern tech stacks and developments with respect to software development using modern design principles, API driven development. DevSecOps, Cloud Native solutions should also be exhibited.
- Experienced in implementing technology roadmaps, application and infra modernisation
- Experienced working with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Able to ‘think big’ and challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype
- Ability to operate successfully in a matrix organisation and to mobilise individuals outside their reporting line
- Excellent leadership skills that inspire others, promote teamwork and collaboration
- Experienced in people and team management, including strong coaching skills
- Strong negotiation skills with the ability to build consensus across different teams
- Basic understanding of Solaris and/or Linux OS such as RHEL is required
- Domain knowledge of financial clearing, payment systems and ISO20022 standard is a plus
Preferred Certifications
- Certifications in SRE is a plus