Description
Environmental Analyst - Banking - Cardiff - £450 per day
A leading UK retail bank requires an Environmental Analyst with Credit Cards Business and Migrations experience to join their team. This role will be based in Cardiff.
This role will require you to contribute to the management of the business test environments, planning and managing availability of these environments in conjunction with code releases.
To be considered you will be you must be able to perform the following key tasks:
- Provide ownership for all key test environments used for Credit Cards Acquisition and servicing across both platforms.
- Actively maintain user stakeholder Matrix for environment usage.
- Actively maintain technical stakeholder Matrix.
- Provide crucial input into the annual environment budget
- Facilitate internal environment audits with user and technical stakeholders to determine optimal approach for the year ahead.
- Work with the IT Project Manager's to ensure that the correct teams are engaged and the appropriate level of environment provision is provided for.
- Provide key technical support on all new Cards projects. Assessing often complex environment needs of projects and then working with IT to provide the most efficient, practical solution to meet their requirements.
- Provide impact assessment and approval of all proposed changes to the above test environments. Highlighting risks to the stakeholders and providing practical solutions to complex environment issues.
- Monitor all environments daily to minimise environment downtime and risk to projects.
- Proactively work with technical stakeholders to implement improvements and ensure environment stability.
- Manage and communicate environment/batch Calendars to relevant business areas
- Manage environment data refreshes across both platforms
- Ensure effective co-ordination & communication of environment availability across all of the system and business areas who require access the test environments.
- Ensure that all environment documentation remains up-to-date with all changes going through strict change control.
- Ensure effective issue escalation to Test Leads and Release Management
- Support FD/IT to achieve target availability rates and track/report metrics.
- Take ownership of environment issues
- Provide single point of contact for environment users.
- Assist in the provision of new or upgraded environment components/infrastructure.
- Contribute towards the Continuous Improvement items.
Please submit your CV to be considered.
We will contact you within 72 hours if your skills are relevant to our client's requirement. EA Consulting Group is acting as an Employment Business for this role under the CEAEBR 2003.