Senior Platform Owner - Leveraged Tool - Leading Financial Institution

Tandem Search

Dubai, UAE

Ref: KP709-2590

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

A leading financial institution invites applications for Senior Platform Owner - Leveraged Tools. The leading bank is undergoing a digital transformation that will drive efficiency across all units. The Compute division is an integral part of this activity, and will be responsible to drive the continuous product engineering lifecycle of a defined set of technologies; that will deliver a standard stack of consumable products within the organizations' Datacenters in the following areas:

Database: covering traditional and contemporary DB products.Unix & Middleware: covering RISC HW, Unix OS and Middleware products.Windows, X86 & Virtualization: covering X86 HW, Windows OS and Virtualization productsIT Leveraged tools: covering the Core IT leveraged products; such as: Active Directory, Exchange, Antivirus Storage and Backup: covering all backup and storage products.
The standard Leveraged Tools provide mission critical services to all bank users. This includes user and computer Identity Management, Email services, End points & Servers protection toolsets and many other Tier one group wide application services.
This role will focus on all Group IT Leveraged Tools, and will resume the end to end responsibility of the products ownership across the Group. While managing the day to day operational activities is not expected here, this role will be accountable for the overall platform operational stability and will lead the products engineering strategy and lifecycle. It will be also required to be up to date with the relevant product releases and continuously conduct research and development to carefully select the features that will require to be in the relevant products backlog. The Role will also play a key role in establishing, maintaining and enforcing standards that will ensure the platforms stability and quick provisioning; allowing agile delivery for all projects.

Main Tasks

- Establish a standard set of products that caters for different workloads in the Leveraged Tools space.
- Continuous update of the Group IT product catalogue with the approved stack.
- Enforce a standard build and housekeeping checklists: this will simplify the environment and drive cost down.Sponsor and drive projects to move the non-compliant products into the standard stack.
- Build the products Strategy and Roadmap.
- Establish the product backlog that require to be addressed on quarterly basis.Sponsor and drive backlog projects to completion.
- Continuous R&D and vendor engagement. Automate the installation to achieve Zero touch unattended deployment.
- Review all housekeeping activities and identify key processes that should be automated.
- Design solutions that caters for enhancing the operational stability.Address Problem tickets, Risk and Audit items in the products backlog.
- Take the lead in working with the relevant stakeholders to finalize the relevant products decisions.
- Develop PDPs for the staff.
- Provide technical guidance.
- Act as a level 3 escalation point for operational activities.

Requirements

Education

- Bachelors of Computer Science or Equivalent
- Relevant Certification - Essential
- 10 years of experience at a relevant managerial position in large organizations
- Banking background - Essential
- Excellent technical knowledge in MS Active Directory, Exchange, DHCP and DNS Technologies
- Excellent technical knowledge in Symantec AV, PGP, DLP and Trendmicro Technologies
- Good knowledge in Monitoring Technologies
- Good knowledge in File shares and SFTP Technologies
- Good Understanding of the products Licensing

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