Senior Manager Application Support - GFT Halifax

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Job Description WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY? Global Functions Technology (GFT) is part of RBC’s Technology and Operations division. GFT’s impact is far-reaching as we collaborate with partners from across the company to deliver innovative and transformative IT solutions. The Finance and Audit IT Application team within GFT is looking for a Senior Manager - Application Support. In this role you will be responsible for managing Application support for a portfolio of applications and leading a team in delivering best class service. You will partner across IT, assigned business lines and 3rd party vendors, to achieve operational excellence. You will have opportunities to work on critical RBC applications with partners from across the company. You will work directly with leaders who believe in celebrating successes and sharing learnings with other teams to promote progress. WHAT WILL YOU DO? - Ensure operational excellence by maintaining stringent SLAs, monitoring application health metrics (availability, response time, error rates), and escalating critical incidents to senior management - Manage global support teams across Level 2 and Level 3 support, spanning multiple geographies and time zones with 24/7 coverage and lead incident resolution for complex production issues, taking ownership of escalations and communicating status/impact to Director and MD-level stakeholders - Lead disaster recovery drills and tabletop exercises with cross-functional teams; document findings and drive remediation of identified gaps and collaborate with Infrastructure and Network teams to ensure adequate redundancy, backup strategies, and geo-redundancy for critical applications - Implement monitoring, logging, and tracing frameworks to establish end-to-end observability across applications, leverage tools for real-time alerting and anomaly detection. - Identify and execute automation opportunities across the support lifecycle: ticket routing, incident correlation, root cause analysis, knowledge base updates, and routine maintenance tasks - Mentor teams on SRE mindset, shifting from reactive to proactive incident management and building reliability into application design while evaluating and integrating AI/generative AI tools for intelligent incident management, predictive maintenance, and knowledge management - Communicate proactively with business leaders about application health, upcoming maintenance, and risks; translate technical issues into business impact. Articulate complex technical issues to senior management (Director/MD level) with clear problem statements, impact, and recommended actions - Work with Audit, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure all applications meet regulatory requirements (e.g., SOX, OSFI, financial reporting standards) WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED? Must have: - 7 years of experience managing an application support organization providing 24*7 production support for portfolios spanning multiple technologies - Experience working with vendors - bot

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