Description
Your Role:
Responsible for the production stability from a project delivery viewpoint, ensure that projects respect production acceptance criteria, ensures that changes delivered into production are of sufficient quality to preserve production stability.
The role covers the following main objectives:
1) Manage and communicate, on behalf of the technology division, the impact of IT projects on technology and production environment. Act as first entry point in the technology division for IT projects to ensure all technology domains and production impacts are properly included deliver the technology division part of the project business case to ensure technology and production impacts are fully defined, appropriately budgeted and a proper risk assessment performed. Ensure overall project leading role in technology division for these developments (deliverables follow-up and sign-off, planning, dependencies, status meetings
2) Ensure compliance with system architecture standards and production acceptance criteria
Coordinate the delivery of the high-level technical design, in co-ordination with application development division, taking into account the impact of non-functional requirements like availability, capacity, scalability. Identify technology impact in terms of new/changed frameworks, the need for new tools or system software versions. Validate high-level design with subject matter technology experts, obtain sign-off Document and maintain the current production architecture (physical mapping of applications on Servers, dynamic view of transaction flows). Define production acceptance criteria in collaboration with service transition and service operation. Assess and document the impacts of the IT project on the production architecture. Validate compliance with production acceptance criteria in collaboration with
service transition and service operation stakeholders.
3) Responsible for optimizing Total Cost of Ownership for infrastructure changes. Define the optimal and least costly IT infrastructure to implement a project, meeting the longer-term technology division and domain cost reduction strategies. Includes initial project budgeting, and evaluating infrastructure capital and operational expenditure impacts of various design options and project decisions. periodically follow-up during project execution to ensure project benefits for running cost reductions are tracked, achieved, and reported relative to changing conditions or assumptions.
Your Profile:
Required Skills
The candidate should have practical experience in project/programme leading, as well a very good overall technical expertise in a complex environment involving IBM Mainframe, Tandem, Unix, Windows, Linux (virtual and physical platforms) and state of the art network and storage infrastructure components. Experience in disaster recovery and data center migration is a plus but not essential. The candidate will need the ability to plan, control and monitor IT project infrastructure duties definition and execution. This includes managing the scope, the budget, the scheduling of activities, the quality of the deliverables, the risks and issues that the project could encounter. The candidate should be able to manage teams and relationships with various divisions, entities and service partners.
This requires strong interpersonal skills:
Excellent communication skills (listening, writing, and presenting) at all levels, from staff members to senior management level
Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
Ownership is very important
Customer focused and process oriented
Ability to deal with conflicting priorities
Sensitive to production stability and support issues
Flexible
Ready to travel from time to time.
Rigorous, structured
Assertive, with good negotiation skills.
Language: English. Dutch or French is a plus.
Certifications (foundation level):
PRINCE 2 (essential), ITIL V3 (required), ISTQB (appreciated) and knowledgeable in CISA, CISSP, CISM (bonus ).