Monday, July 19, 2010

[itroundtable] LEAD: Svc Del Mgr - CT - to 150k - Fin Svcs

 

*IT Service Delivery Manager - Stamford, CT*

· Data IT are one of the eight global streams within IT, and
provides technology and business process support to the Operations function.
This includes a broad range of stakeholders throughout the Investment Bank
including the Front Office business lines, Finance, Operations, Credit and
Legal & Compliance. The applications deployed by Data IT enable the sourcing
and distribution of high-quality instrument, partner and reference data
throughout the firm.

· The Data IT applications portfolio consists of currently 30
applications, 13 of them labeled as business survival critical. Technologies
used are Sybase and Oracle databases mainly on Unix systems. Additional
technologies used range from IBM Mainframe to Linux, J2EE environment with
Web Sphere and Tomcat, Informatica as ETL tool, Autosys as scheduler and
Business Objects for reporting.

· Data IT provides daily operational support for these applications
through a two tiered Service Delivery team. This role is to manage the US
Level 2 SD team, directly managing four team leaders, whom each have between
1 and 3 support analysts reporting directly to them.

This role reports to the Global Head of Data IT SD, and has 5 main
elements:

*Team Management:* directly managing the US team, and providing technical
and process leadership to the wider Data IT SD team

*Service Delivery:* managing serious incidents, ensuring problems are
followed up with the relevant teams and resolved, identifying and delivering
on opportunities for service improvement

*Change Management:* working with Application Development and
Infrastructure teams to ensure production readiness criteria are met for
planned changes, with SD prepared to support implementations

*Service Assurance:* ensuring application and support service levels are
maintained (such as availability, performance, incident and request
resolution times, etc), capacity reviews are performed, BCP plans are
maintained and tested, Operational Risk and Audit reviews are completed on
time, and upgrades to infrastructure are planned and performed

*Client Relationship Management:* interacting with local clients and
stakeholders, to ensure service and team performance is optimal

The role will include regular on call duty and weekend release oversight
work on a rotational basis.

* Requirements: *

· Knowledge of software development methodologies and best
practices, including agile methodologies & ITIL.

· The ability to master new technology, and effectively adapt
knowledge and skills

· A depth and breadth of technology skills, with experience of
managing service delivery that is dependant on the below technologies
(listed in priority order):

· Database technologies (Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server)

· Web framework technologies (J2EE, .NET, Struts, Websphere)

· Job scheduling technologies (Autosys, cron)

· ETL technologies (Informatica, Ab Initio)

*Preferred Qualifications: *

· Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the
ability to interact well with both Business users and technical personnel,
and resolve any conflicts between teams

· A proven ability to independently manage a team of other
managers/leads

· The capability to work collaboratively in a mixed resource global
team, or independently on your own.

· The skills to mentor, develop, coach and lead teams both within
and outside of your management reporting line

· An interest/knowledge of reference data.

· Strong analytical and problem solving skills, to enable timely
resolution of system problems.

· The ability to question and challenge the change plans put
forward by all teams, to ensure application stability

· A history of proactively seeking ways to provide a better service
e.g. implementing new products or enhancements.

*Vishal Mehta* *|* *Senior IT Recruiter *

*Andiamo Partners* | *15 Broad Street, Suite 1024,** **New York, NY 10005*

*Direct: 646 747-5164* | *Main: 212-488-1595 | Fax: 646 896-1023*

vishal.mehta@andiamopartners.com**

www.andiamopartners.com



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