Director, IT Systems and Platform Services

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Hong Kong, Central, Central & Western District
Senior level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
The Director of IT Systems and Platform Services will manage incident lifecycle and service restoration. Responsibilities include ensuring operational stability, facilitating communication with stakeholders, leading a team for system support, and driving continuous improvement in IT services following ITIL standards.
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Job Description:

Sun Life Hong Kong Information Technology is looking for an experienced systems production support, incident management, problem manager professional to manage the lifecycle of incidents and improvements. The job role will be responsible for setting guardrails and operational stability programs, issue prevention and restoration of IT services for users or clients as quickly as possible in the event of a major incident and timely Communication to Business Contact Points till the resolution of incidents.

It also creates a single accountability for Hong Kong to interact with Business Stakeholders, Regional, Corporate, as well as Risk and Compliance and Internal Audit to streamline communications, coordination with clear role and responsibilities. Resulting improved efficiency and minimize communication gaps.

Technical Leadership:

  • Ensure IT Services are managed according to SLA based on ITIL standards. Deliver Continuous Service Improvement plans and all services KPIs must be monitored, tracked, and reported according to pre-defined standards and timeline
  • Manage and direct of the team which includes planning, setting priorities, coordination and reporting of all related system support activities
  • Provide effective leadership in support of the IT organization including resourcing, budget, policies and procedures on IT system.

Incident Management:

  • Facilitate technical troubleshooting efforts and engages additional technical support as needed, including vendor support for restoration of services
  • Be a single point of contact and accountability for the incident, investigate assigned problems through to resolution or root cause. Coordinating actions of others as necessary to assist with analysis and resolution actions for problems and known errors

Communication Management:

  • Timely Communication to Business Stakeholders during priority incidents. Resolve conflicts during incident resolution and act as coordinating interfaces between Resolver group and Business during major incidents
  • Standardize the communication framework for the planned / unplanned issues with the consistent process

Problem Management:

  • Reviewing incident data to analyze assigned problems. Analyzing problems for correct prioritization and classification
  • Set guidance and ensure IT system standards and process, and provide input for problem management to the appropriate process owners as needed

Continuous Improvement:

  • Define and manage continually plan to improve service leave and system stability
  • Drive continuous review of resource consumption with application team, infrastructure team, SLGS and external vendors and identify the plan with efficiency optimization
  • Identify how existing and emerging technologies can benefit the company under the improvement plan

Job Requirements

  • More than 7 years solid experience in managing/leading in sizable systems support and operations
  • Broad knowledge of financial services or insurance industry desirable
  • Excellent understanding of production support and control procedures
  • Continuous Improvement on system stabilization experience desirable
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and inter-personal skills
  • Strong influencing and negotiation skills to the business stakeholders, regional, and corporate team, vendors.
  • Excellent problem solving and analytical skills

We offer attractive salary, MPF, group life and group medical insurance and excellent career development opportunities to the right candidate.

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Application forms and resume will be kept for a period of 24 months after completion of the recruitment process. (All information will be held in strict confidence and only used for recruitment purpose.) 

Job Category:

IT - Technology Services

Posting End Date:

27/02/2025

The Company
Toronto, Ontario
499 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

A UK company, Sun Life Financial of Canada is focused on building excellent customer service by offering the highest levels of customer care. We have been serving customers in the UK for over 100 years

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