Application Operations Director

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Job Title

Application Operations Director

About your role:

You will be responsible for delivering a predictable and positive customer experience for the Fiserv products and services our client's use daily. We are seeking an experienced manager to join a highly skilled and customer-focused team. The ideal candidate will have senior client facing experience in a fast paced, dynamic setting with a focus on continuous improvement. The role requires outstanding problem management, communication, collaboration, and ability to drive operational improvement across our change management, mean time to restore and incident reduction objectives. The App Ops Director will work closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to strategize and develop short and long-term plans that usher in new levels of operational excellence and client satisfaction based on production stability metrics and trends.

What you'll do:

• Works on moderate to complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of the Function/BU/Fiserv.
• Manage Issuer Solutions ITSM quality through standardized operating procedures, best practices and focus on continuous improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate and assess daily, weekly, monthly, yearly operational, and technical metrics/KPIs for continuous improvement opportunities to help minimize financial and reputational impact to Fiserv and our clients.
• Partner with multiple divisions, both business and technical, throughout the firm to drive a reduction in client impacting incidents, improvements in MTTR, change success and problem management.
• Support and drive automation, elimination, and simplification of our current processes.
• Participation in an on-call production support schedule, if needed.

Experience you'll need to have:

• 10+ years of operational experience.
• 7+ years of Incident Management experience.
• 7+ years of experience using monitoring and alerting tools.
• 7+ years of experience with ITIL framework and production support best practices.
• 5+ years of experience using enterprise communication tools.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, and/or equivalent military experience.

Experience that would be great to have:

• ITIL Foundational Service Delivery certification.
• Strong working knowledge of compliance tools (Service Now, Jira, ITIL processes).
• Previous experience with CMDB LOB CI mapping.

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