Beschrijving & Vereisten
We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Manager, IT Business Solutions Delivery (Reporting Pillar) to oversee the maintenance, support, and optimization of business-critical reporting applications. In this role, you will manage a team of application support specialists, collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve technical issues, and ensure business users can access reliable and accurate data. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring high availability and performance of enterprise applications & driving continuous improvement, managing service-level agreements (SLAs), and enhancing the organization's reporting infrastructure. This role often includes troubleshooting, resolving incidents, maintaining the Metrics & KPIs and collaborating with other IT and business teams.
Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary point of contact for functional application support across business-critical applications.
- Lead and manage a team of application support engineers to ensure prompt resolution of end-user issues, service requests, escalations and application-related incidents.
- Lead the team by providing direction, coaching, and performance/Metrics management.
- Maintain high system availability and reliability by managing support processes and coordinating with developers, business analysts & other stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain the policies & procedures towards availability of comprehensive documentation, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and knowledge base articles.
- Collaborate with business units to understand functional requirements, process flows, and application usage, ensuring alignment between application and business requirements.
- Analyze and troubleshoot functional issues related to application workflows, data integrity, user access, and reporting.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying recurring issues, root causes, and opportunities to optimize application performance and user experience.
- Provide regular reports and metrics to senior IT leadership regarding application support activities and performance.
- Being immediate supervisor, directly responsible for the performance, growth & productivity of the team members, ensuring high quality output from the team members.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements, optimizations, and automation within the data quality and governance workflows, leveraging your deep understanding of the platforms.
- Partner with data governance, IT, business, and delivery teams to bridge the gap between technical requirements and business needs.
- Serve as a liaison between business users and technical teams, ensuring that both sides understand the evolving requirements and functionality of the platforms.
- Investigate root causes of data quality issues, such as process flaws, or gaps in user understanding.
- Work closely with delivery teams to troubleshoot and address challenges in data workflows, quality checks, and governance processes.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align metrics, KPIs to monitor progress and drive improvements.
- Experience in Agile environments or working with cross-functional teams in iterative, fast-paced delivery cycles.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in a STEM field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 8 years of development or support experience in relevant field
- Minimum 2+ years of leadership experience managing a global team
• Proficiency of SQL (Microsoft/Oracle/DB2/Postgre) and understanding of data integration tools
• Experience on developing or supporting Reporting applications such as Birst, PowerBI, DOMO, Tableau, SSRS etc.
- Excellent problem-solving and analysis skills.
Preferred Qualifications
• ITIL certification (Foundation or higher)
• Strong understanding of the relational database systems and application monitoring tools.
• Strong understanding of application architecture and enterprise software systems
• • Experience with cloud platforms, particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS)