Director Application Support

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Application Support Lead professional with a minimum of 10 years work experience to join the team in Hyderabad, India. The role encompasses 2nd line technical application support for our Capital Markets Platform called Global Market Group. This person will report directly to the Global Manager responsible for application support and will work closely with the global team contributing to the quality of our support.Application Support is a global team that provides specialized technical support across the suite of trade processing and workflow solutions that support all participants in Global Markets Group. The application support team works collaboratively, both internally and across our customer base, operating in a sharing and learning culture with a view to build continuous improvement in our processes.Key Management Responsibilities

• Partner with functional areas within Technology such as Architecture and Engineering, Business Systems and Service Management (1st and 2nd line) to ensure Global Technology provides efficient and effective IT services and support to our Clients.
• Building a culture of collaboration, repeatable quality processes with cost efficiency, and dedication to improving quality of services delivered through strong working relationships with Service Management
• Managing onsite resources across 2 shifts and contributing towards Global Application Support Rota and incident management process.
• Drive Major Incidents from fault logging to resolution and follow up Root Cause Analysis.
• Accountability for service reviews with business and other technology partners looking for area where services can be improved.
• Responsible for all aspects of the teams training, management, appraisals and all aspects of recruitment.

Duties & accountabilities

• The Application Support candidate should handle all support requests; incident, problem and change management, and business continuity activities, to ensure flawless and quality delivery of services to end users. This is a critical role requiring a highly dedicated individual who can take ownership and provide procedural and technical support to various teams and internal/external stakeholders.
• Provide second line client-facing technical support for issues escalated by first line support teams. Apply strong technical skills and good business knowledge together with investigative techniques and problem-solving skills to identify and resolve issues efficiently and in a timely manner. Work collaboratively with development team required for third line escalation.
• Coordinate with product and delivery teams to ensure the App Support team is ready for new releases and engaged in early design of new enhancements
• Work on initiatives and continuous improvement process around proactive application health monitoring, reporting, and technical support.

Key Areas of The Teams Responsibilities Are

• Proactive monitoring and management of business critical 24x7 real-time. Where required to rectify issues in a timely fashion to restore application functionality.
• Ensure incidents are correctly processed, assessing business and technical impact and severity.
• Taking ownership of application incidents and ensuring that they are resolved, this includes retaining ownership of incidents that require 3rd Line or IT Change activity to resolve.
• Ensuring the communication to the business community remains active.
• Application responsibilities will cover Application Infrastructure, Data Fixes, User Queries, User Education and Incident Investigation.
• Monitoring of application events alerts, job schedules, capacity monitors and performance KPIs. Creation and ownership of change requests raised to address any of the above issues.
• Working with the Functional and Technical teams, to understand future application deliverables both from Fictional and Non-Functional.
• Proactively share knowledge with the team and update the knowledge base with support documentation (Confluence).
• Work to provide services to agreed Service Level Targets and Operating Level Agreements.

Education and Hand on experience required

• University Graduate of Computer Science or Engineering degree, Master?s Degree is a plus
• A minimum of 10 years work experience
• Good understanding of Application Support processes
• Must be knowledgeable in programming languages, SDLC and experience in raising development bugs ? including priority assessment, high quality analysis, and detailed investigation. Understanding of agile methodology an advantage
• Must have working knowledge in SQL and RDBMS - including stored procedures & complex joins. Ability to program in SQL is a plus
• Must understand operating systems most especially Windows and Linux. Good scripting experience (preferably including python) an advantage
• Must have fundamental knowledge of networking basics and topology. CCNA certification an advantage
• Ideally familiar with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Centreon, Solarwinds and Monolith.
• Ideally would have experience of working in the Finance Industry and/or experience of IHS Markit products
• Ideally with working knowledge of Cloud computing and Microservices technology stack suck as AWS, Openshift, Docker, Elasticsearch etc.

Commercial awareness

• Excellent understanding of software systems and technology
• Good understanding of Application Support processes
• Good understanding of software support team functions and a solid understanding of the end to end application development process.
• Knowledge of, or experience of working in the financial services industry would be highly beneficial.
• Awareness of Derivatives products and Trade Processing (desirable)

Personal impact

• Confident Individual ? able to represent the team at various levels.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task balancing technical, business and other drivers
• Customer Focused
• An Owner ? Making sure tasks are followed through and completed
• Open minded, flexible and willing to adapt to changing situations
• Process Oriented ? happy to recommend, work to and support good processes and controls.

Communication

• Must be a good communicator both written and verbally for this role as this is also customer facing in addition to working collaboratively with internal teams.
• Must be able to effectively communicate handover of issues inwards from London and outwards to APAC in a Follow the Sun support model.

Teamwork

• Must be able to work in a team environment
• The candidate must be flexible regarding hours including weekends and willing to commit to maintaining service availability for our clients

-----------------------------------------------Equal Opportunity Employer:S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to:EEO.Compliance@spglobal.comand your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdfdescribes discrimination protections under federal law.

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