Systems Operations Senior Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Systems Operations Senior Manager

In this role, you will:

• Manage and develop teams of analysts, associates, and less experienced managers in roles that provide technical services and support for the relevant supported systems
• Engage and influence stakeholders, internal partners, and peers in order to engineer projects, identify new products and solutions, and research solutions for existing systems
• Identify and recommend opportunities for administration and maintenance of the remote monitoring and management system, as well as the periodic system review
• Perform network assessments, security audits, and system enhancement consultations
• Determine appropriate strategy and actions of Systems Operations team to meet moderate to high risk deliverables
• Interpret and develop policies and procedures, and understand compliance and risk management requirements for supported system area
• Provide implementation support for key risk initiatives
• Collaborate with and influence all levels of professionals, analysts, or associates
• Ensure the Systems Operations team communicates with customers to keep them informed of incident progress, and notify them of impending changes or agreed outages
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Systems Operations
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Systems Engineering and Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 3+ years of management or leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Overall 6+ years of experience including application support, development and deployment in Banking industry.
• Strong experience in SRE, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Service Transition within a complex technology or financial services environment
• Demonstrated ability to productionize new platforms, not just support them
• Solid understanding of high-value payment systems (Wires, RTP, SWIFT, CHIPS, FedNow) and their operational risk profile
• Experience working with event-driven, distributed architectures
• Proven ability to partner with engineering teams while representing the production and operational lens
• Comfortable operating in early-stage, ambiguous transformation environments
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical risk to senior stakeholders
• Should have at least 6+ years of experience in managing the Application support for multiple business critical applications.
• Keep abreast with new technologies and tools and providing recommendations for process improvements
• Good understanding of payment flows, Reconciliation and Regulatory reporting
• Must have clear understanding of OLA's and SLAs with respect to payments and currency cut-offs
• Must have knowledge of relational databases – Oracle, SQL Server.
• Must have attention to detail, a commitment to Quality and be business focused.
• Excellent presentation skills, including ability to engage with leadership at all levels of, and organization
• Strong presentation and training skills.
• Hands on experience using monitoring tools like Grafana, Splunk, AppDynamics, Netcool, APM or equivalent tool is preferred
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment and have strong time management skills.
• Strong hands-on experience in Production support in a financial services company.
• Understanding current challenges and being able to prioritize initiatives to improve operational support

  
  Job Expectations:

  • Lead critical incidents recovery in a timely fashion, to minimize if not eliminate customer impact and communicate the progress of the same to the senior leadership team as appropriate.
  • Deliver day-to-day application production support services for international suite of applications catering operations in APAC, EMEA and NAM locations.
  • Able to guide team towards daily administration and support of these applications technically.
  • Sound knowledge in IT Service Management, ITIL, Incident, Problem, Change, Release Management & Service transformations.
  • Responsible for understanding the application and work towards creation of SLA and BCP plans.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and be able to apply creativity to improve processes.
  • Help to deliver timely, accurate and actionable business information
  • Streamlining support by identifying areas for improvement within both the team and applications
  • Ability to understand and escalate issues efficiently and appropriately.
  • Ability to lead multiple application support groups supporting critical payment/Regulatory applications that are running 24x7
  • Identify system bottlenecks and opportunities for process improvements
  • To be able to lead cross application support programs, which will help teams overcome bandwidth challenges and focus more on engineering activities
  • Contribute to application stability, identify incident patterns, and report vulnerability in production environment.
  • Champion continuous improvement work across Technology & Infrastructure teams to drive stability, Resiliency, Client delight and operational excellence.
  • Identify and implement service delivery improvements through automation.
  • Ability to lead team and lead projects/initiatives with high risk and complexity
  • Provide technical assistance/solutions to the teams in access related issues that encounter when working on cross applications support

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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