As the Senior Application Specialist, you will provide Subject Matter Expertise on the design, development and enhancement of our Data estate, to assist the business increasing operational efficiency and reduce operational risks.
You will also be an escalation point for the Application Specialists and to fix application and system problems, or any incident that is disrupting the application service that business users depend on.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with the business to gather requirements and take ownership for the delivery of development work within the agreed timelines.
- Provide Technical advice to the Senior Manager Data & Integration Systems to ensuring exacting standards of quality, security (incl IT Security and Data Privacy), continuity of service, are delivered to meet AL and client needs.
- Use technology appropriately and flexibly, taking into consideration the company’s strategy and security requirements.
- Monitor Platform performance in accordance with agreed SLAs and help deliver resolution of platform defects, outages and incidents.
- Support engagement with key suppliers by providing technical expertise, working to clearly articulate business requirements and facilitate tie identification of vendor solutions.
- Adhere to the company’s standards and best practices, including, but not limited to, documentation, testing and peer review.
- Ensure maintenance of the development infrastructure required by the above tools. In particular, maintenance the source code repository, continuous build and deployment facilities.
- Seek opportunities to deliver business value via innovation and technology.
- Provide technical advice to the business users by identifying the most appropriate tools/processes for any given task.
- Ensures quality and consistency throughout the architecture and implementation of the code base.
Risk
- Responsible for managing risks inherent to the role by diligently observing internal policies and procedures.
Key Interfaces
- Business System Owner
- Head of IT & Innovation and Chief Architect
- Senior Manager Data and Integration Systems
- Head of Enterprise IT Services and Chief Information Security Office
- Application Specialists and Application Support
- Solution Architect
- Information Security manager
- Data Privacy Manager
- Infrastructure Engineers