Production Operations Manager

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Position Summary

The Senior Manager Production Operations Transformation will lead the evolution of production support capabilities across CorpFinFCU and Engineering portfolios driving the organizations transition toward an A2030-aligned Silent-Ops operating model. Reporting directly to the Line of Technology Operations (LTO) leadership team this role is accountable for modernizing production operations through automation predictive monitoring self-healing capabilities Agentic AI and end-to-end operational governance.

The successful candidate will provide strategic leadership to improve service reliability reduce operational toil accelerate incident prevention and establish a highly automated scalable and resilient production support model.

Key Responsibilities

Production Operations

• Lead support for critical applications and infrastructure.
• Ensure adherence to established service level agreements (SLAs).
• Proactive monitoring and rapid incident resolution root cause analysis
• And continuous service improvement to maintain high availability stability and operational resilience.

Silent-Ops Strategy & Operational Excellence

• Lead the design implementation and operationalization of the Silent-Ops production support model across CorpFinFCU and Engineering portfolios.
• Develop and execute transformation roadmaps aligned with A2030 automation and operational excellence objectives.
• Drive reduction of manual intervention through automation orchestration and intelligent operational processes.
• Establish operational KPIs and governance frameworks to measure Silent-Ops maturity and business outcomes.

Automation & Predictive Operations

• Champion proactive environment management through predictive alerting observability and data-driven operational insights.
• Partner implementation of automated resolution capabilities to prevent incidents and minimize service disruptions.
• Identify operational inefficiencies and drive continuous improvement initiatives across production environments.
• Partner with engineering and platform teams to integrate automation into operational processes.

Agentic AI & Self-Healing Platforms

• Lead development and operationalization of self-healing and auto-remediation solutions leveraging Agentic AI technologies.
• Drive adoption of intelligent workflow automation to accelerate incident detection diagnosis and resolution.
• Establish governance controls and performance metrics for AI-driven operational capabilities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry best practices to continuously enhance operational effectiveness.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Provide strategic leadership to multidisciplinary operations and engineering teams.
• Collaborate with senior technology leaders to align operational transformation initiatives with enterprise objectives.
• Drive cross-functional engagement across application infrastructure cloud platform and security teams.
• Present progress risks and outcomes to executive leadership and governance forums.

Risk & Governance

• Strengthen end-to-end operational governance service management and accountability frameworks.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise policies risk controls and audit requirements.
• Drive operational resilience service availability and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead major incident reviews and identify opportunities for automation and operational optimization.

Qualifications & Experience

• Must have bachelors degree in computer science or information technology
• 8 years of hands-on experience supporting and managing enterprise infrastructure environments in large scale mission critical organizations.
• Extensive experience administering and trouble shooting Windows () and Linux Operating Systems
• Strong expertise in infrastructure platforms including virtualization technologies Containerization technologies Compute Storage Networking Active Directory DNS DHCP Enterprise Back up recovery and high availability solutions.
• 10 years of experience in Production Operations with strict uptime availability and reliability
• Experience with Monitoring Observability and incident management. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Infrastructure Operations or Technology Operations leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading large-scale operational transformation and automation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms observability monitoring automation frameworks and modern production support practices.
• Experience implementing self-healing auto-remediation AI-driven operations (AIOps) or Agentic AI capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive enterprise-wide change.

Other:

• Regularly connects work to BMOs purpose sets inspirational goals defines clear expected outcomes and ensures clear accountability for follow through.
• Builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders.
• Attracts retains and enables the career development of top talent.
• Improves team performance recognizes and rewards performance coaches employees supports their development and manages poor performance.
• Provides strategic input into business decisions as a trusted advisor.
• Manages complexity across business value technology and interaction models.
• Recommends and implements solutions based on analysis of issues and implications for the business.
• Identifies emerging issues and trends to inform decision-making.
• Manages resources and leads the execution of strategic initiatives to deliver on business and financial goals.
• Helps determine business priorities and best sequence for execution of business/group strategy.
• Acts as the prime subject matter expert for internal/external stakeholders.
• Monitors and tracks performance and addresses any issues.
• Breaks down strategic problems and analyses data and information to provide insights and recommendations.
• Leads the execution of operational programs; assesses and adapts as needed to ensure quality of execution.
• Provides end to end technology support including computer applications network and storage and root-cause analysis etc.
• Drives and/or promotes new processes systems technology and operations and expanded capabilities for performance with the flexibility to align to the unique requirements of the project teams and deliverables.
• Proactively monitors system performance and identifies operational improvements in ensuring smooth and consistent customer and business partner delivery.
• Supports deployment activities managing implementation issues to resolution.
• Provides initial triage investigation and ensures fast turnaround times on issue/incident resolution.
• Monitors technical infrastructure applications and/or business transactions through automated systems and instrumentation across the environment.
• Provides inbound call assistance to end-users for application technical and IMACD needs leveraging the knowledge base and/or run books available.
• Collaborates and engages with the appropriate areas across the bank.
• Develops or helps to develop the knowledge assets required for the operation.
• Promotes adherence to standards and industry best practices.
• Develops an understanding of organizational interactions and complexity to engage with the appropriate matrix areas.
• Identifies opportunities to strengthen the operational capability such as: sharing expertise to promote technical development mentoring employees building communities of practice and networks across technology.
• Stays abreast of industry technical and business trends through participation in professional associations practice communities & individual learning.
• Operates at a group/enterprise-wide level and serves as a specialist resource to senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Applies expertise and thinks creatively to address unique or ambiguous situations and to find solutions to problems that can be complex and non-routine.
• Implements changes in response to shifting trends.
• Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.
• Take measured risks while protecting the bank by applying our Risk Management Framework in the execution of your role in line with our Risk Culture and within our approved Risk Appetite making sound and risk informed decisions that align to business strategy protect assets and adhere to applicable policy documents (Frameworks Policies Standards Procedures and Supporting documents) laws and regulations.
• Data driven decision making - In-depth / Expert.

The above represents BMO Financial Groups pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location skills experience education and qualifications for the role and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Groups expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Groups total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives discretionary bonuses as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance tuition reimbursement accident and life insurance and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits please visit: Us

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