IT Service Manager - Full-time / Part-time

• Manage the relationship (relative to Operations & Maintenance (OM)) between the business customers and IT partners for assigned applications


• Manage application-specific production support processes


• Provide second level application support, coordinating the involvement of business and/or development resources in problem resolution as necessary


• Continually develop support skills to minimize dependency on development resources


• Assist OM team with problem triage, categorization (break/fix vs. enhancement), root cause analysis and ability to duplicate a problem


• Work with business partners to ensure appropriate prioritization for scheduled maintenance, including coordination of priorities across applications when required


• Coordinate business approval of production migrations (release entry framework)


• Provide leadership in critical issue resolution during war room process


• Facilitate the hand-off of new release functionality from the development team to the OM team


• Facilitate the gathering of business requirements to support OM activities as necessary


• Identify enhancements to improve supportability, operability or performance of applications (and develop supporting business cases for suggested enhancements)


• Collect, analyze and report SLA and OM metrics data (and take corrective actions as warranted)


• Resolve issues with application-level service performance


• Identify, sponsor and implement continuous improvement initiatives within the OM unit


• Manage a staff of direct and indirect resources for their assigned applications and manage established budgets and forecasts


• Participate in the budget setting process including justification of planned staffing levels


• Optimize the mix of resources to obtain maximum results at the lowest cost


• Manage the release calendar for all OM activity (code fixes and work orders)


• Ensure compliance with all Sarbanes-Oxley and other audit / security requirements


• Manage the proper level of OM engagement in development processes to ensure that new applications/functionality are supportable following transition to OM


• Participate in on-call responsibilities 24x7x365


• Manage the relationship (relative to SSS) between the business customers, and IT infrastructure and Development partners


• Develop and maintain application-specific production support processes


• Develop SSS capabilities to minimize dependency on Development resources


• Coordinate with Business and Development partners to ensure appropriate prioritization of ticket work, scheduled maintenance, Metrics that matter, Vital Business Function's, Maturity Model and Business Plans


• Provide incident resolution communication to Business and Senior Management (Incident Communicator)


• Participate in REF activities and post production support as it relates to new production functionality


• Evaluate and implement infrastructure initiatives for your applications


• Collect, analyze and report Service Level Agreements and SSS metrics data for assigned applications


• Respond timely to Senior Leadership inquiries as required


• Work on SSS defined initiatives (Ex: technical documentation, ASK, PLM, Server Moves)

• Bachelors degree or higher level of education


• Minimum of 5 years of application development (or support) experience in a large enterprise environment


• Minimum of 5 years or more of experience managing direct reports with full HR responsibilities (performance reviews, setting goals, coaching, etc)


• Ability and willingness to hold on-call responsibilities to respond to system issues 24x7x365


• Prior experience leading development and/or support for large, critical applications (preferably on multiple platforms)

ASSETS:

• Previous experience managing a remote team of resources including offshore team members


• Previous budgeting experience


• Previous Healthcare industry experience


• .NET, Java and/or Web Services experience

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