Application Manager
UK, London
An Application Manager will support the coordination and running of development, production support and maintenance activities for one or more applications under a Delivery Team. S/he will report to the Delivery Lead.
Reporting to the Delivery Lead, the Application Manager will have operational and administrative responsibility for developers and have operational responsibility for matrixed resources (Analysts, PMs, etc.) that support their application suite.
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What will your essential responsibilities include?
1. Guides developers and support teams on project execution, issue resolution, and provide escalation framework via governance
2. Work to educate customers on best use of product and support sympathetic change to the product, clearly articulating trade-offs, and risks
3. Key conduit between Delivery Team and wider orgranisational standards, structures, and processes
4. Work with business and information security to identify security risks and finding solutions, including risk acceptance
5. Build effective relationships and networks to help navigate the organisation to support the team in delivering change
6. Support internal and external audits to ensure services are delivered in a controlled fashion without undue risk to the company
7. Work with Technical Architect in defining, analysing, planning, measuring, and improving product availability and continuity.
8. Manage service levels to ensure all commitments are met and any variances mitigated to reduce impact on overall cost, schedule, quality for business needs
9. Identify and prioritize proactive maintenance action items and support impact assessment of environmental changes
10. Review and prioritize product defects
11. Estimate work requests at various levels of confidence and manage estimates against actuals to ensure change controls are appropriately managed
12. Identify and champion improvement opportunities
13. Raise Statements of Work and/or Service Level Agreements with application development vendors for specific developments & changes with input from Program/Project Managers, Analysts, Solution Architects and Product Owners
14. Implements SLA / KPI alignment across the full SDLC for each SOW / SLA
15. Maintain positive relationship with suppliers in pursuit of company’s best interests
16. Manage risk to deliver on service levels commitments and project milestones
17. Serve as a point of escalation for risks and issues, supporting the team in overcoming operational and technical blockers
18. Govern internal change processes and development documentation
19. Balance demand and capacity
20. Work to minimize impact of changes to project costs/P&L
You will report to the Delivery Lead.
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We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
21. Familiarity with multiple application delivery models including Agile, iterative and waterfall
22. Experience of managing both internal development teams and external software vendors
23. Able to develop Knowledge Management strategy for applications
24. All outsourced work performed on applications in the group performed under a fully vetted contract in alignment with Procurement processes, including Security and Legal requirements
25. Expert level experience in planning and executing complex, large scale initiatives or operational area.
26. Budget, supply, and resource management for IT application development services
27. Significant leadership experience (8+ years) in IT with knowledge / skills for leading multi-disciplined technology teams
28. Effective communication skills, particularly on key matters relating to the application grouping to stakeholders
29. Risk identification and mitigation
30. Stakeholder management
31. Proven planning and organization skills, creating own work schedules, prioritizing workload, preparing in advance, and setting realistic timescales
32. Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures, etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.
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