Problem & Incident Management Manager

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

Your key tasks

• Assess and categorize incidents based on their impact, urgency, and priority, in alignment with predefined incident management guidelines
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders, including support teams and subject matter experts, to gather necessary information for incident severity assessment
• Provide clear and concise communication to stakeholders, including senior management, regarding incident status, impact, and resolution plans in timely and accurate manner
• Ability to communicate well and manage highly stressful situations over the phone. Demonstrate proven leadership qualities removing any ambiguity as to who is coordinating the incident resolution
• Ability to coordinate and drive technical bridges during a major event, asking the right questions, and steering the support teams towards quick mitigation, work-around or resolution to limit the financial and reputational exposure
• Continuously evaluate and refine the incident severity assessment process to improve its accuracy and efficiency
• Monitor and report on the performance of the incident severity assessment process, identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective measures as needed
• Conduct thorough incident post-mortems to analyse root causes, identify areas for improvement, and implement corrective actions
• Foster collaboration across platforms and SMEs from other lines of business to align IT strategy with the bank's business needs and objectives
• Lead in major incident management by leading the command and control and oversight all key recovery activities and escalation upwards

• Providing management support in ensuring highest levels of service quality and improving service levels through identification of problem trends and causes which impact the delivery of production services
• Conduct monthly service review meeting to review major incident and ensure agreed Service Level Agreement (SLA) are met with various business stakeholder
• 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.
• 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.
• KPI Metrics and Reporting: Capture Incident timelines in ticketing tools, Incident Impact and Resolution Duration and the associated KPIs.
• Standby support after business hour on rotation basis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, System Engineering, or a related field
• 3 to 5 years of experience - Proven experience in major incident management and problem management
• Strong knowledge of incident management frameworks, processes, and best practices
• Strong knowledge of IT Service Management, ITIL framework
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders at various levels of the organization
• Working experience in IT Systems and IT software in a banking environment is an added advantage
• Self-motivated, self-organizing and possess drive, ability to be hands-on, strong planning, organizational and time management skills

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.

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