Manager, Service Management

What You'll Do:

The Incident Manager of Production Operations is responsible for ensuring that event disrupting technology service are triaged, communicated, resolved and analyzed in a timely manner. This manager will oversee a team of 3+ reports, spanning three shifts 24/7.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Incident management according to established ITIL best practices.

• Manage staff and provide focus in a very dynamic fast paced environment.

• Manage staffing and ensure that 24/7 coverage is always present.

• Provide guidance and ensure that reports are trained and able to execute current, and new responsibilities.

• Ensure that Incidents are escalated and socialized adhering to all reporting requirements.

• Ensure that first-level Incident identification and resolution techniques are used to address all issues.

• Ensure that all Incidents are accurate and complete.

• Evolve the Incident process by implementing a multi-tiered process.

• Evolve the Incident process with a focus on reducing the time to resolve Incidents.

• Actively participate in the Change Control process, focusing on mitigating any/all risk.

• Embrace and live into all compliance and audit requirements.

• Must adhere to all Production Operations policies and procedures

• Focus on Operational readiness ensuring that all responsibilities are formally transferred to Production Operations

• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Evangelize for IT Platform stability and nurture a Continuous Improvement worldview.

• Escalate all impacting Incidents and surface any operational risks to leadership.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Supervise team of 3+ spanning three shifts 24/7.

• Ensure that reports adhere to all OCC policies and procedures.

• Maintain PTO schedules and ensure that staffing levels & coverage are appropriate.

• Meet with staff on a regular basis to provide continual feedback.

• Write and deliver performance evaluations (PEPs).

• Actively participate in reports skills & career development plans.

• Ability to influence across multiple teams in a matrix-reporting structure.

• Must be people focused, supporting and guiding your reports through this transformational phase.

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Thrive under a high-pressure environment and be able to prioritize

• Demonstrated experience in managing medium size teams.

• Excellent time-management skills.

• Microsoft products desktop proficiency (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.)

• Working knowledge of monitoring tools and best practices.

• Understands urgency of service level agreements and the need for timely responses.

• Ability to work in high intensity environment.

• Need to be detail oriented and self-motivated.

• Must be a Team Player.

Technical Skills:

• Excellent cross-discipline knowledge of IT platforms

• General Linux knowledge.

• Experience with a scheduler (e.g. UC4).

• Good knowledge of AWS cloud foundation and Kafka

• Excellent knowledge of ITIL and ServiceNow

• Strong Desktop & Microsoft Office skills.

• Process orientated with the ability to design & and optimize a process.

Education and/or Experience:

• At least 5 years' experience managing a team, across multiple shifts.

• Experience working in an environment with matrix-reporting structures.

• 7 or more years' experience working in a multi-platform environment.

• Experience working with a scheduler (ie.UC4).

• Dev/OPS and/or SRE experience a plus.

• College degree in Computer Information Systems desired, but equivalent work experience will be considered

Certificates or Licenses:

• None

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

Benefits

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
• Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
• Generous PTO and Parental leave
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information.

Compensation

• The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education.
• In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
• We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers
• All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed.

Salary Range

Incentive Range

This position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award, for which the target range is listed above (see Incentive Range). The amount of such award, if any, will be based on various factors, including without limitation, both individual and company performance.

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer