Regional Head of Mainframe Chennai

Chennai, India

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Date live: Oct. 11, 2022

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: 90281926

Contract: Permanent/Regular

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Job Title: Regional Head of Mainframe Chennai
Location: Chennai

This Leader will be part of a Leadership Team and will report into the Global Head of Mainframe and the Regional Head of Enterprise Platforms.
•   Accountable for ensuring the delivering of a significant range of technical services based on agreed service requirements.
•   To support the Head of Mainframe in providing leadership, vision and strategic direction of the Mainframe function across the global strategic locations.
•   To manage a local Mainframe leadership team

What will you be doing?

Primary Accountabilities (70%)
•   Driving change through complex infrastructure to meet GTIS change agenda
•   Delivery of the Mainframe infrastructure to agreed levels, quality and cost through the leadership of a team of circa 10 FTE.
•   Manage to the budget for the team.
•   Effective delivery of small change – managing demand/supply
•   Effective management of supplier relationships within Barclays and 3rd parties.
•   Ensuring that the area remains a commercially driven function, which aligns to GTIS’s service based model.
•   Ensuring that the whole team is fully conversant and fully aligned with the strategy and plans of Barclays, GTS & Hosting Service Delivery
•   Leading people by example by being a role model in the way change is embraced and by providing vision and passion through periods of uncertainty inspiring and creating a fully engaged workforce.
•   Directing/motivating/influencing team to achieve business objectives.
•   Creating an empowering environment for the team, encouraging individual ownership, initiative and challenge of the status quo.
•   Responsible for performance review and management of all direct reports, involved in overseeing performance and development of all staff within the department
•   Recruiting, nurturing and retaining talent
•   Ensuring effective succession plans are established and managed
•   Ensuring that the knowledge within the area is current
•   Establishing and agreeing the requirements for resource to ensure skills are available to meet current and future work demands on the function
•   Pursuing own development to increase personal effectiveness, acknowledging strengths and areas for development.
•   Support processes (currently aligned to ITIL best practice)

Ensure compliance to all Business Management disciplines including:
•   Implementing operational and commercial models
•   Adherence to financial plans, processes and Infrastructure Services commitments.
•   Manage the allocation of resources against the planned levels of demand for own function against time, cost and specification.
•   Provide input to the recruitment of resources required to meet future demands for delivering against planned goals and objectives of Technical Support
•   Ensuring appropriate key measures and performance indicators are in place to enable progress to be exhibited against performance targets across GTIS.
•   Compliance to all regulatory, risk and audit requirements and personal leadership on all related matters
•   Ensuring technical policies and standards are adhered to by the team and that changes in policy are implemented

Infrastructure component Leadership Team (30%):
•   Making a proactive and value adding contribution to the wider Mainframe Leadership team and agenda
•   To be responsible for ensuring the continual availability of the z/OS platform application, which under pins 83% of the Top 30 Global Services within Barclays
•   Has effective commercial and financial awareness
•   Awareness of all the major components in a vendor's solution
•   To provide leadership to the technicians during incidents.
•   Ensure all incidents are managed appropriately to ensure minimal impact on service
•   Active contribution to the infrastructure component wide direction and planning initiatives.
•   Ownership and accountability for components of the management system and business plan
•   Undertake work outside of direct responsibility when required on behalf of the Mainframe leadership team
•   Ensure that communications and people initiatives are effectively completed

What we’re looking for:

o   Bachelors degree (BSc) or equivalent industry experience.
o   Responsibility for delivering and managing a service in a technology context
o   Managed technical teams (50+) and budget (£1m +)
o   Industry experience with either Mainframe technology.
o   Led/delivered enterprise change (specific examples will be required)

Skills that will help you in the role:

o   Postgraduate qualification or equivalent industry experience
o   Banking/financial services experience
o   External certification – ITIL Certification.

Where will you be working?

• Chennai

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