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Production Services Specialist

Plano, Texas

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Position Summary:

Application Production Support for the Bank of America’s Global Banking Applications, primary responsibilities are 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.

The role also includes:

+ 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

Required Qualifications:

+ Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

+ 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:

+ 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

+ Risk Management

+ Automation

+ Collaboration

+ Innovative Thinking

+ Result Orientation

+ Solution Design

+ Business Acumen

+ DevOps Practices

+ Project Management

+ Solution Delivery Process

+ Stakeholder Management

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Bank of America and its affiliates consider for employment and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our teammates.

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Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. Should you be offered a role with Bank of America, your hiring manager will provide you with information on the in-office expectations associated with your role. These expectations are subject to change at any time and at the sole discretion of the Company. To the extent you have a disability or sincerely held religious belief for which you believe you need a reasonable accommodation from this requirement, you must seek an accommodation through the Bank’s required accommodation request process before your first day of work.

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