Production Manager, AWS, VP

Join us as a Production Manager, AWS

• We'll look to you to lead the production management for your domain to ensure availability for business use as per agreed expectations based on business resilience, continuity requirements and customer expectations
• You'll support the team’s activities to make sure that the platform’s integrity is maintained in line with the platform and technical roadmap releases, while also managing demand from discretionary and mandatory change requests
• It’s an opportunity to make a real impact and be pivotal in the success of our business, while benefiting from great variety and stakeholder exposure
• We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

As a Production Manager, you’ll contribute to the delivery of a robust production management, infrastructure and application support service for relevant platforms, activities and processes across your domain. You'll also manage in-bound work requests and ensure both efficient and effective prioritisation and scheduling of work across the domain, using transparency and fast feedback loops to identify scheduling problems or other issues.

Along with managing relationships with platform, domain and relevant cross-domain stakeholders, you'll consistently be looking for potential improvements of existing processes and procedures across production management disciplines. As such, you'll establish an environment of continual learning and feedback.

You'll also be:

• Working with leads, managements and others to define and execute the domain's future state vision
• Identifying and capturing risks and issues relevant to the production environment, engaging and coordinating with other leads to identify potential solutions and enable resolution
• Making sure that applications and infrastructure are fully compliant to mandated standards by adhering to processes and security compliance
• Ensuring resilient and robust applications and infrastructure recovery plans to meet the business recovery requirements
• Making sure that controls are applied and constantly reviewed, primarily against SOX, to ensure full compliance to all policies and regulatory obligations

The skills you'll need

Your technical knowledge and experience will cover platforms, technology, products and domains, and you'll have experience of relevant industry standard toolsets and processes to drive up customer service within an IT environment. You’ll need at least thirteen years of experience in IT, including five to eight years in application support and three to five years leading teams supporting critical finance systems on AWS, with proven expertise in managing L1/L2 support, major incident response and ITIL-based service management to ensure high availability and performance of cloud-hosted finance applications.

You'll need working experience with AWS services like Athena, PySpark, Glue, RDS, CloudWatch, along with Angular, NodeJS, Tableau, CI/CD and DevOps practices, and database technologies, complemented by a solid understanding of financial systems such as GL, risk, treasury and regulatory reporting with a focus on data integrity, controls and compliance. You'll need strong leadership, stakeholder management and continuous improvement capabilities, with a track record of reducing incidents, enhancing operational efficiency and optimizing cloud performance and costs.

You'll also demonstrate:

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to your peers and management level colleagues
• Knowledge and experience of using operational principles
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• A solid background working in an Agile or DevOps environment with continuous delivery and continuous integration

Hours

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