Bank Of America Production Services Specialist 

United States, Texas, Plano 

135476822

Primary Responsibilities of this role include:

• Identification and resolution of production incidents
• Problem Management post-incident resolution to determine root cause, mitigating actions, drive and track permanent resolution
• Management of incident and problem tickets through the enterprise ITSM tool
• Understanding and ensuring compliance with the Incident Management and Problem Management policies and procedures
• Capacity and Performance Management
• Working with development teams for take-on and training of new services or significant upgrades
• Providing support for Audits (internal and external)
• Stakeholder management, working closely with Business and Operations partners to understand KPI metrics to measure service stability to prioritize defect fixes and enhancements

Responsibilities:

• Leads End-to-End maintenance responsibility of all production services related to technology. Work activities specific to Production Shared Services include: Problem/Incident Management, Release/Deployment, Operational Readiness, Capacity/Availability Management, Application Monitoring, Service Analytics and Reporting, Production Governance, Triage, Associate Support, Change/Configuration Management
• Actively engage and lead production support issues/incidents
• Takes ownership of escalations and perform trouble shooting, analysis, research and resolution
• Ensure production and performance SLAs are met and escalate issues which needs attention
• Performs analytical, technical, and administrative work in planning, installing, and supporting new and existing equipment and software under moderate supervision
• Identifies vulnerabilities and opportunities for improvement, as well as maintain metrics to help develop analysis that will drive improvement in all areas of Production Shared Services
• Creates and enhances administrative, operational and technical policies and procedures, adopting best practice guidelines, process improvements, standards and procedures
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
• Serves as an escalation point between the client/business area and internal management for the resolution of moderately complex unresolved problems, complaints and service requests
• Should have increased awareness and exposure to basic technical principles, concepts and techniques
• Resolves complex issues. Works on problems of minimal-moderate scope where analysis of situation or data requires a review of identifiable factors
• Support of on-call rotation for off-hours and weekend support as needed

Skills:

• Adaptability
• Analytical Thinking
• Influence
• Production Support
• Automation
• Collaboration
• Innovative Thinking
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant IT experience i.e. Production or Release Support, ITIL, Technical Implementations, or equivalent
• Demonstrate flexibility, navigate ambiguity, and quickly establish credibility among technical peers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English)
• Proven knowledge in some/all of the following: Java/J2EE – Core Java, JDBC, EJB, & Java Web Services & Experience in Server-side technologies - SOAP/Restful services, XML/XSLT, XML, JDBC, AOP, MQ Micro Services & MuleSoft.
• Good knowledge of Middleware components; Message Broker, IBM Websphere MQ, JBoss application server, MuleSoft
• Strong operating system knowledge in Unix and Windows including strong scripting skills
• Experience with Database technologies (examples Oracle, DB2 and PL/SQL ) queries to support incident resolution.
• Knowledge of event driven and schedule driven batch processes
• Experience of handling various production support roles (technical – L1/L2/L3) and hands-on experience in using at least 2-3 widely used monitoring / scheduling tools
• Ability to be part of IT production support team providing front-line technical support to end users responding to issues related to Incident / Problem Management, Release/Deployment, Operational Readiness, Application Monitoring & Production Governance
• Experience with: troubleshooting, analysis, research, and resolution using advanced query, programming skills, conduct root cause analysis, and identify mitigations/risk, real-time restoration, triaging of issues impacting technical services (application/infrastructure) to bank customers and partners in a timely manner while keeping partners advised of significant progress or challenges during the restoration period
• Ability to work closely with Technology Infrastructure, Development & Testing Teams in supporting Integrated / Independent releases, software/hardware upgrades, server upgrades, etc.
• Ability to assess initial severity, gather impacts, engage necessary supporting teams, and escalate as necessary to ensure timely restoration
• Experience with on call support for triaging problems, coordinating with various support teams across the organization and carryout activities related to incident and problem management
• Ability to communicate with all lines of business and management the overall status and health of the application, contribute to automation, causal analysis, develop shared/common solutions, and proactively identify cross-functional or technical issues
• Working on some weekends and bank holidays as part of a 5 day/week shift pattern

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of event-driven and schedule driven batch processes
• Experience with Database technologies (examples Oracle, DB2 and PL/SQL ) queries to support incident resolution
• Good knowledge of Middleware components such as Message Broker, IBM Websphere MQ, JBoss application server, MuleSoft

1st shift (United States of America)