In this role, you will be responsible for the delivery of Data & Business Intelligence delivery services across all platforms, including integration points between them, managing a service team. You will proactively manage relationships and communications with business and outsourcing partners and effectively address escalations related to application issues and drive service improvement.
Your role
As Data & DBI Service Manager, your main responsibilities will involve:
- Manage the service delivery for assigned application portfolio spanning across different segments according to Service Level Agreements managing a service team
- Report overall application service performance to different business stakeholders proactively taking action to address issues and gaps with the business.
- Engage in major incident management and problem management
- Proactively drive communications to the business (e.g. Incident alerts, change freezes, etc.).
- Contribute to the service management strategy and definition of reusable frameworks
- Manage customer satisfaction and service improvement programs, as well as escalation and complaint management
- Manage the Project hand-over process into operations and Approve operational readiness for projects and releases
- Collaborate with Project Management, Solution Architecture teams, Platform and applications support Teams to ensure the operational aspects of a solution are considered, with in a DevOps and Agile framework and mindset.
- Proactively drive the Continuous Service Improvement (CSI) as well as Automation initiatives.
- Maintain a business-oriented IT service catalogue for the relevant portfolio of applications
- Monitor critical application governance and report on service level performance, generating improvement actions where necessary
- Contribute to the definition of new vendor services in close collaboration with Sourcing Management
- Ensure compliance with appropriate internal control and regulatory requirements for both internal and external suppliers, provide assistance and support for audits, where applicable
As Data & DBI Service Manager, your skills and experience will ideally include:
- University level education or equivalent
- Over 5 relevant years of experience
- Prior experience working in a finance services, preferably insurance
- Knowledge of Data Analytics, BI tools and Cloud with functional and technical background in at least two of the following: SAP BW4HANA, Analytics Cloud (SAP SAC and HANA DB), Tibco EBX MDM, MS Azure, Power BI.
- Solid understanding of ITIL processes – Incident and Request Management, Change Management, stakeholder management (e.g.: ITIL)
- Desirable some experience in Agile and DevOps framework
- Tooling: Service Now (SNOW), JIRA, bamboo, bitbucket (DevOps), Azure DevOps and MS 365,
- Communication/presentation skills, team management, relationship management
- Ability to work effectively in a global organization across different geographies, under time pressure and to manage ambiguity
- Fluent in English (spoken and written).
Zurich Technology Delivery Center (TDC) based in Barcelona is a technology hub part of the Zurich Insurance Group. It provides services across the world covering insurance business with the most...
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