Director, IT Service Operations
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13We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Global Fixed Income Service Management Technical Manager with a minimum of 12 to 15 years of experience to lead the application support and cloud operations function for Book Building platforms within the Markets division of Enterprise Solutions. This role is primarily based in Bengaluru city.
The role is responsible for overseeing global 2nd line application support cloud infrastructure operations platform stability incident response and tracking and operational governance across multiple business-critical Fixed Income platforms.
The successful candidate will lead a global Service Management organization supporting highly available real-time trading and workflow applications utilized by financial institutions worldwide. This individual will work closely with stakeholders from Product Development Client Success and senior Technology leadership to ensure operational excellence platform stability and continuous improvement of support processes and technology operations.
This role requires a strong technical leader with deep operational experience in cloud technologies application support incident response and tracking stakeholder coordination and team leadership within a fast-paced financial technology environment.
Key Management Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a global Service Management team across multiple regions and time zones including application support operations escalation management workforce planning and operational governance.
- Drive operational excellence and platform stability across mission-critical Fixed Income applications and cloud infrastructure environments.
- Partner closely with Architecture Product Development Client Success and senior Technology leadership to ensure efficient and reliable service delivery.
- Establish and promote a culture of accountability collaboration continuous improvement operational discipline and client focus.
- Lead major Incident response and tracking activities including driving incident executive communication client coordination root cause analysis and remediation planning.
- Oversee release readiness production change governance deployment risk assessment and business continuity planning.
- Drive proactive monitoring observability automation and AI-driven operational initiatives to improve platform reliability and reduce operational risk.
- Manage all aspects of team leadership including recruitment performance management employee development mentoring training and succession planning.
- Conduct service reviews with internal stakeholders and business partners to identify operational gaps process improvements and strategic enhancements.
- Ensure support teams maintain high-quality operational documentation knowledge management and standard operating procedures.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Own and manage application support activities including Incident response and tracking Change Management and Business Continuity processes.
- Provide leadership during critical production incidents and coordinate cross-functional teams to restore services in a timely manner.
- Ensure timely escalation communication and resolution of production issues while minimizing client impact.
- Provide advanced technical leadership for complex applications infrastructure and integration issues across distributed cloud environments.
- Collaborate with Development teams on defect analysis root cause investigations and long-term remediation planning.
- Coordinate with Product and Delivery teams to ensure operational readiness for new platform features enhancements and releases.
- Lead initiatives focused on proactive AWS infrastructure monitoring application performance optimization capacity planning and operational resiliency.
- Utilize AWS-native services including CloudWatch ECS ALB RDS Route53 and other monitoring technologies to improve operational visibility and automation.
- Drive observability initiatives using tools such as Splunk Cloud Splunk Observability and CloudWatch.
- Promote adoption of AI and automation technologies to enhance operational efficiency predictive alerting anomaly detection incident prevention and reporting automation.
- Ensure operational compliance with internal audit security vulnerability remediation and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain strong engagement with internal stakeholders and external clients to ensure high-quality support and operational transparency.
Key Areas of The Teams Responsibilities Are
- 24x7 monitoring and operational support of business-critical Fixed Income platforms and cloud infrastructure.
- Issue triage impact assessment escalation management and resolution coordination.
- Ownership and coordination of application incidents requiring Development Infrastructure or Change Management activities.
- Active communication management during production incidents and client-impacting events.
- Support responsibilities including infrastructure management application troubleshooting data corrections user support and technical investigations.
- Monitoring application alerts batch processing infrastructure health system capacity and performance KPIs.
- Creation and ownership of operational change requests and application support procedures.
- Collaboration with Functional and Technical teams to support future business and technology initiatives.
- Knowledge sharing documentation maintenance and continuous process improvement across the global team.
- Delivery of services aligned with agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Operational Level Agreements (OLAs).
Education and Hand on experience required
- Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering Information Technology or related discipline. Masters degree is a plus.
- Minimum 12 to 15 years of experience in Application Support Production Operations or Service Management within enterprise technology environments preferably in Financial markets domain.
- Proven leadership experience managing global technical support or production operations teams.
- Strong understanding of ITIL processes including Incident Problem Change and Release Management.
- Strong experience supporting mission-critical financial systems in high-availability environments.
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud technologies and microservices-based architecture.
- Strong technical knowledge of distributed applications APIs cloud infrastructure and enterprise support operations.
- Working proficiency in SQL and relational databases including stored procedures performance analysis and complex queries.
- Experience working with Linux and Windows operating systems.
- Scripting or automation experience using Python Shell PowerShell or similar technologies is highly desirable.
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Splunk Enterprise Splunk Observability Elasticsearch Grafana or similar tools.
- Strong understanding of SDLC methodologies Agile development practices and software release processes.
- Experience driving operational automation AI-driven support initiatives or predictive monitoring solutions is highly desirable.
- Prior experience supporting Fixed Income Capital Markets Investment Banking or Financial Services platforms is strongly preferred.
- Excellent communication stakeholder management leadership and crisis management skills.
Preferred Technical Skills
- AWS (ECS EC2 RDS ALB CloudWatch Route53 Lambda)
- Docker / Containerized environments
- Splunk Cloud & Splunk Observability
- CloudWatch and infrastructure monitoring platforms
- Python / Shell Scripting / PowerShell
- SQL / Oracle / RDBMS technologies
- Incident Management & ITIL processes
- Monitoring observability and performance analysis platforms
- AI-driven operational tooling and automation
- Application support within Financial Markets / Capital Markets environments
- Experience supporting distributed cloud-native and microservices-based applications
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