Incident Investigation Manager

ADECCO PERSONNEL PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent staffing agency is seeking an Incident Investigation Manager to lead and enhance the management of Major Incidents in a dynamic environment. The role requires overseeing incident resolution, creating reports for management, and facilitating post-incident reviews for continuous improvement. Candidates must possess at least 8 years of IT experience and strong leadership skills. The position involves coordinating with various support teams and requires a capability to work under pressure while managing communication effectively.

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of infrastructure or application support hands-on experience is mandatory.
• Overall IT experience of 8 years or more.
• Crisis Management experience is needed.
• Knowledge of IT ecosystem and operations in capital market and corporate banking.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools and job scheduling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and improve resolution of Major Incidents.
• Coordinate with support engineers during Major Incidents.
• Create incident reports for senior management.
• Organize post-incident meetings for learning and improvement.
• Report KPI and analyses to senior management.

Skills

Leadership

Clear communication skills

Client-oriented relationship management

Problem-solving

Adaptability

Ability to work under pressure

Tools

Monitoring tools

Transversal technologies

Job description

The Opportunity

The Opportunity

• Adecco is partnering with a leading bank to look for a Incident Investigation Manager
• Starts off as 1 year contract

Description

In a challenging and multicultural environment, we seek a senior incident investigation manager to join the Incident Management team, part of control tower.

The Incident Manager is assigned to lead and improve resolution of Major Incidents (with Priority of P1 and P2). A key component of this role is to ensure consistency and control over the management of Major Incidents.

During Major Incidents, the Incident Manager is seen as the owner of the Major Incident, with overall responsibility for enforcing proper execution of the process, coordinating and overseeing individual incident owners and support teams involved in troubleshooting and ensuring meaningful communication is sent on‑time to the relevant stakeholders.

When no incident is ongoing, the Incident Manager focuses on post‑incident activities and process improvement.

Incident Manager is also responsible for creation of periodic and on‑demand incident reports for the senior management.

Main Responsibilities

During Major Incident

• End to end ownership of the Major Incident with the aim to minimize the time to restore.
• Coordination with all support engineers involved in the troubleshooting with the possibility to involve other support groups.
• Ensure a systematic process is followed for all Major Incidents from opening to closure.
• Assess Incident complexity and decide to apply the Crisis Management process if required: trigger and liaise with the Crisis Manager to manage communication with and escalation to Executive management.
• Track incident progress to resolution and responsible for communicating progress to higher management and transverse relevant teams. Prepare clear and concise communications and publish them based on the priority of the incident.
• Facilitate exchanges between the relevant support staff through setting up ad‑hoc Conference Bridge / Business Chat groups and / or direct contacts. In particular, ensure diagnosis, action plans and key initiatives are shared with the relevant parties across technical towers and geographies.
• Drive discussions to a pragmatic outcome in a reasonable timeframe in order to ensure the key decisions are taken on time or escalated to higher management. As a last resort, responsible for choosing between resolution solutions, or escalating in case of disagreement between technical teams and after assessing all impacts with relevant stakeholders (Experts, Managers and / or Business line IT).
• Activate and manage the Incident WAR Room.

Regular Operations (no Major Incident)

• Coordinate the write‑up of the Incident Report, collecting inputs from all parties and ensuring high quality of the final document.
• Organize Post‑Incident Meeting to share / brainstorm on actions and suggestions to avoid similar incidents in the future or shorten resolution time. This involves writing and publishing organisational Incident Report which details organisational issues experienced during resolution and suggests improvements to speed up the team reactivity.
• Ensure consistency of the incident documentation / references across all systems.
• Report KPI and analysis to senior management on key inputs linked to Major Incidents content and trends.
• Write and publish the organisational Post‑Mortem of Incident which details organisational issues experienced during resolution and suggested improvement areas to improve team interaction and fluidity.
• Provide consolidated reports (based on KPIs) for various committees.
• Ensure procedures and documentation is up‑to‑date (diagrams, checklist, etc.).
• Maintain the escalation tree (internal and with third parties).
• Share and promote best practices and lessons learnt on Major Incident management to internal stakeholders (support teams, management).
• Report to Operational Manager on the efficiency of the Major Incident Management process.
• Act as process manager ensuring that the Incident Management process is applied in a systematic and consistent manner by leveraging on lessons learnt.

Skills sought

Soft Skills

• Leadership with ability to do efficient multitasking.
• Clear verbal and written communication skills at multiple levels in an international context and should be able to follow organisation process.
• Client‑oriented with strong relationship management with experience in IT support and service management.
• Reactivity and ability to solve problems by using different methods.
• Ability to learn and adapt and to be proactive.
• Ability to work simultaneously with different profiles (technical/functional, medium/top management, etc.).
• Ability to work under pressure.

Requirement

• Infrastructure or application support hands‑on experience of 4‑6 years is mandatory.
• Overall IT experience: 8 years +.
• Crisis Management.
• IT literacy: Knowledge of IT ecosystem & operations background with experience in IT for capital market and corporate banking to the extent of knowing front office to back office application flow.
• Having knowledge about monitoring tools and scheduling jobs would be plus.
• Good understanding of transversal technologies (SAN, Unix, Windows, Network, DBA, CTRL‑M, MQ).
• Technologies and/or applications background with ability to grasp impact and interdependencies.
• 2 shifts in rotation.
• First shift: 08:30 to 17:30 SGT;
• Second shift follows Paris Business hours - 3 PM to 12 midnight or 4 PM to 1 AM (during winter period).

Next Steps

We could contact you at the soonest time if you directly send your resume to: [e-mail]

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