Senior Technology Analyst

Job description The Lead Technologist supports the technical infrastructure required to supply IT services to the bank. They are involved in the strategy, design, development, and deployment of IT solutions. They are able to troubleshoot complex issues, being aware of overlapping and different technology areas. Based on their business knowledge, they are able to identify where IT designs can be strengthened and provide value to the businesses. They are responsible for providing detailed technical feedback into the Engineering function to deliver more robust IT solutions. They understand in detail, how IT needs to be supported and can create appropriate processes and controls which ensure IT failings are captured and remediated to ensure stability. They provide technical direction on all related IT platforms and are considered technical experts for level 3 support in outage coordination. The Lead Technologist is counted upon to provide technical guidance and recommendations for complicated business IT problems. They embrace a Continuous Service Improvement approach to drive efficiencies and remove repetition to streamline support activities, reduce risk, and improve system availability. The successful candidate is expected to have at least 12-15 years experience in IT, preferably with Asset Management Business Applications and Processes. The IT Application Owner (ITAO) has sound IT risk management skills. They follow one of several possible service delivery approaches, acknowledge interference with the IT applications life cycle and assist with incorporating the adopted approach into best practice. The focus is on applications moving onto cloud. Here you support tracking of the application control status and help application dev-teams with practical advice. Make sure that all steps in Identity & Access Management cycle (on-boarding, recertification, off-boarding) are compliant against DB Policies and application is on-boarded to central tools. The ITAO is aware of the gap in the current infrastructure solutions and where industry innovations are along the maturity lifecycle. They work with application stakeholders to improve the infrastructure, ensuring compliance with the technical roadmap. The ITAO has a sound knowledge of development methodologies and the IT policies necessary to perform effectively in the organisation, aligned to the banks appetite for risk. The ITAO acts to improve safety and security of the application, compliance with regulations, policies and standards, enhance operational readiness, and ease maintenance of the environment for delivering change into production. The ITAO supports the banks audit function in the remediation of audit points and self-identified issues in order to reduce risk. The ITAO is responsible for producing and maintaining accurate documentation on compliance with methodologies, IT policies and IT security requirements. The ITAO interacts with and influences colleagues on the governance of IT platform reliability and resilience ITAOs will also be responsible for Application Decommissioning ITAOs will be driving activity that helps incidents reduction against an application Support compliance on all steps of SDLC process and make sure that all SDLC controls are green. You support the teams role as key contact for all security controls in the software delivery process and ensure that the security controls are evidenced by driving automated evidence. You are consulting with the ITAO community, information security specialists in our CSO organization, and other infrastructure teams like the ORR/SDLC teams. Your key responsibilities Enterprise IT Governance: Responsible for review of current and proposed information systems for compliance with the organisation's obligations (including legislation, regulatory, contractual and agreed standards/policies) and adherence to overall strategy Information security: Communicates information security risks and issues to business managers and others. Performs basic risk assessments for small information systems. Contributes to vulnerability ass