Absa Bank Application Team Lead A Jobs in Kenya

Absa Bank Application Team Lead A Jobs in Kenya



Key Activities
  • Optimize the availability of the IT infrastructure to deliver cost effective improvements that deliver tangible benefits to business units and customers
  • Provide a range of IT availability reporting to ensure that agreed levels of availability, reliability and maintainability are measured and monitored on an ongoing basis
  • Provide holistic management of availability that includes people and processes as well as technology
  • Take actions to achieve reductions in frequency and duration of incidents that impact IT availability
  • Ensure shortfalls in IT availability are recognized and appropriate corrective actions are identified and progressed
  • Create and maintain a forward-looking availability plan aimed at improving the overall availability of IT services and infrastructure components to ensure that existing and future availability requirements can be met
  • Provide regular reports on availability to the Head of Service Management
  • Organize and maintain a regular availability review process with both key business and IT representatives
  • Agree appropriate actions to maintain or improve availability levels
  • Initiate and coordinate actions required to maintain or improve availability of applications
  • Act as a coordination point for changes to availability levels of applications when needed
  • Determine the availability requirements from the business for new or enhanced IT applications
  • Establish measures and reporting that reflect business, user and IT support requirements with regards to application availability
  • Participate in Change Control meetings to assess and authorize changes from an availability perspective
  • Assist in SLA negotiation efforts from an availability capability
    standpoint
  • Define the key targets of availability required for the applications and their components that underpin a new or enhanced IT application as the basis for an SLA agreement
  • Analyze and review actual availability levels achieved against SLAs and OLAs
  • Maintain an awareness of technology advancements and best practices that support

    Education and Experience
  • Undergraduate or higher in Computer Science or any other Technology related field.
  • ITIL Managers Certification or Equivalent
  • Additional professional certifications will be an added advantage
  • 7 years IT experience minimum
  • Minimum of 3 years’ service management experience
  • Project management experience
  • Team Leadership experience

    Knowledge and Skills
  • Translate Bus Requirements to Tech Solutions (Solid)
  • ITIL - Governance Framework (Solid)
  • Strategic Thinking (Solid)
  • Negotiation Skills (Solid)
  • Subject matter expertise (Solid)
  • Communication Skills (Written and Verbal) (Solid)
  • Understand the IT service delivery within a corporate environment (Advanced)
  • Conceptual thinking, ability to analyse, make decision and initiate action (Solid)

    How to Apply

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