Service Delivery Manager is the main contact point in each specific Global Area for the Regional Delivery organization for client related requests or issues. He is accountable for the service in his own Area and as such, he/she manages all major issues, coordinating the activities with all relevant stakeholders.
Your key tasks
- Be the Key contact for regional delivery organizations and internal consulting for the services under own responsibility.
- Act as a first escalation point for all complex service delivery issues addressed by clients to Service Manager, related to services under own responsibility, performing all needed in-depth analysis on such requests.
- Support projects by providing specific service delivery requirements during design and build phase and ensure a smooth transition into operations.
- Support Service Managers in defining Service Level Agreements and KPI contents towards all clients, during onboarding as well as periodic review, for the services under the responsibility of the SDM.
- Functionally lead more complex delivery units to achieve the stated objectives on service delivery. Accountable for service delivery quality vs clients.
- Ensure the monitoring, delivery, and variance explanation of service operational metrics for services under own responsibility.
- Be accountable for and ensure coordination of service restoration in case of major incidents, for services under own responsibility, followed by incident reports and technical reports
- Ensure root cause identification, definition, and implementation of remedial actions for prevention and avoidance of incidents. Facilitate continuous improvement of services effectiveness and efficiency.
- Improve the application of the Problem management
- Hold regular alignments with other SDMs and other important stakeholders of the organization and communicate any process changes/improvements to clients via Service managers.
- IT SDM to liaise with Architects and relevant third parties to ensure that non-functional requirements are captured and implemented in the solution.
- Support service delivery of monitoring and service readiness requirements together with technical L2
- Ensure service readiness (early morning and after maintenance weekends or other events) / partially automated
- Ensure the smooth transition between implementation and run (hand over for Projects of T&T) and
- Support the new service set-up and service level definition.
- Support to closure manager for end of the year testing-simulation and trouble shooting
- Availability for picket shifts with possible emergency interventions at night or on weekends, acting as manage on duty.
- Ensure the definition and the review of the Target operating model in case of need
What you need:
- Demonstrable experience of working effectively within collaborative service and operational team structures, ideally in a technology, finance business environment, with proven, practical, service management experience in the infrastructure and IT outsourcing services area
- Very good understanding of the banking business and its interaction and dependence on IT services
- Knowledge and experience of SLAs, as well as service monitoring methods and tool
- Experience of managing and maintaining effective processes and procedures in a complex multi system, multi-site environment support service environment
- ITIL and / or Cobit 5 Certification a plus
- High prioritizing and decision-making abilities
- Ability to interact successfully on different hierarchical levels within the customers and providers organizations and to analyze and simplify complex problems and to be able to communicate this to others
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including a proven ability to persuade and influence others using a variety of communication styles
- Ability to facilitate meetings and manage any conflicts
You will get extra points for the following:
- Project management experience
- Improving monitoring, logging and alerting solutions
- Hands-on in using different data sources and analytics tools (e.g.: REST API, Power BI)
- Proven Know-how on at least one of the following technologies: Web-Mobile applications, Crypto-Blockchain applications, Cloud transformation, Trading applications
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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