Major Incident Manager

Client Description:
Job Description:
**Position: Major Incident Manager (Incident and Problem, IT Service Management)**
**Employment Type: 1-year Agency Contract (Highly Renewable)**
**Location: Alexandra**
**Mode of work: Hybrid**

**Job Objectives**
- Monitor and to manage the technology Incidents impacting our client's group businesses across all subsidiaries and 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America.
- The Major Incident Manager also works directly with Application and Infrastructure support staffs, Operations, Business and vendors to ensure agreed service levels are met.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Manages technology incidents impacting our client's group businesses
- Work with relevant business & technology group/units to comply with the Incident and Problem Management processes and procedures, to facilitate and improve incident recognition, logging, assignment, tracking, status notification, escalation, documentation and management reporting in full compliance with our client's standards on Incident and Problem Management functions
- End to end ownership of the Major Incident with the aim to minimize the time to restore the services.
- Establishing strong command and control of an Incident, establishing clear accountability and precise evaluation of complex issue scenarios.
- Participation in all incident resolution calls to facilitate incident determination, recovery and resolution
- Timely incident recognition, logging, assignment and resolution (or bypass / temporary resolution where permanent resolution within the allotted timeframe is not feasible) with proper documentation
- Incident progression co-ordination and monitoring of Incidents and potential areas through symptoms, trends or deviations from standards
- Escalation of critical and unresolved Incidents to appropriate levels of management
- Ensure incident data is accurately captured and documented in the incident reporting tool.
- Post Incident activity to ensure highest levels of service quality and improving service levels through identification of problem trends and causes which impact the delivery of production services.
- Ability to communicate well and manage highly stressful situations during the Incident.
- Problem Management: Experience in various problem-solving methods like five whys, Fish bone etc. End to end ownership to initiate, track and the closure of problem tickets and the preventive actions.
- Participate in the standard Post-mortem (Root cause analysis) process to ensure no repeat of any technology incidents with known root cause.
- Management reporting
- Effective and accurate incident reporting and assignment by using tools, which are customized and implemented, where applicable. Work towards effective use of these automated solutions with other tools and procedures within command center/ datacenter, in order to garner and present an accurate picture of the incident situation, minimize adverse change impact, and facilitate the incident recognition and resolution process.
- Work in co-operation with other Technology & Operations/Shared Infrastructure Services functions to help maintain an acceptable audit rating.
- KPI Metrics and Reporting: Capture Incident timelines in ticketing tools, Incident Impact and Resolution Duration and the associated KPIs.
- Audit Reporting: Data analysis, PowerPoint presentation, Regulatory reporting.
- Good knowledge on Macro, Excel, PowerPoint, Ticketing tools, Data analysis.
- Ensure compliance to Group Technology & Operations Policies and Standards

Job Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or related discipline required.
- ITIL certification is a must
- Experience: 8 years managing complex IT initiatives in a matrix environment or Operational Line Managers experience is preferred.
- Excellent English communication skills (written and oral), with experience interacting with all levels of management
- Experience in Application support, Knowledge on EOD Batch processing, Infrastructure (Storage, Network, Unix/Linux etc), Web/Application/Middleware services, Good to know Payments flow.

If you are interested in the role above please get in touch directly with Stefan Olsem for further discussion or Click APPLY NOW Below.

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Tangspac Consulting Pte Ltd
03-02 The Octagon, 105 Cecil Street, Singapore 069534
EA Personnel Name: Olsem Stefanus Emmanuel
EA License: 07C3635 | EA Registration: R2094432