Service Transition Specialist

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Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world's leading financial groups. Across the globe, we're 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. With a vision to be the world's most trusted financial group, it's part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career. Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. Would you like to work for one of the world's largest banks in an exciting, dynamic and international environment? We are currently recruiting for an Assistant Vice President (AVP), Service Transition Specialist in our Systems Division in Amsterdam. About MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V. MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V. (MBE) is a fully-owned subsidiary of MUFG Bank, headquartered in Amsterdam. With offices throughout Europe, our teams provide clients with comprehensive financing solutions spanning Coverage & Structured Finance, Capital Markets and Transaction Banking, using MUFG's global reach to provide bespoke solutions. With 73 green, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bond tranches in 2021 and 51 sustainability-linked loans in EMEA in 2021, MUFG is committed to supporting clients to achieve sustainable business growth. Please visit our website for more information - https://www.mufgemea.com/mbe Your impact at MUFG The Service Transition Specialist will be responsible for the following areas: Operational Readiness This role will set-up, own and execute the Operational Readiness process with the main goal to ensure that projects will adhere to their obligation to ensure the support and service teams which maintain services are provided/enabled with all the information they require to perform their function following the completion of projects. Operational Readiness is the method/procedure by which Technology assesses, monitors and reports the progress of this task. Support the Change Control Process including the build and Deployment processes This will involve working with the Transition team in EMEA Tech office to ensure that applications that provide critical and important functions are covered by controlled process and that we can evidence the control provided via standard reporting. Onboarding and support of the existing processes and support for the application teams is a critical part of this role IT Configuration Management Process This role will work closely with the Config team in EMEA Tech where the bulk of the config work is being done for MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V. Main goal of the function is to define and control the components of IT services and its Infrastructure, and to maintain accurate configuration information. Function positioning Systems Division supports MBE's IT structures with regard to IT applications, infrastructure and hardware. There are 4 pillars in the division: 1. IT Planning 2. IT Service Delivery 3. IT Security 4. Local Branches IT The AVP Service Transition Specialist reports to the Head of IT Service Delivery who reports to the Head of IT Division. The role includes the following responsibilities: Operational Readiness: - Assessment of Operational Readiness categories applicable to the project during the initial project phase - Continuous engagement with the project team during the project lifecycle; and provide ongoing assessment/tracking of crucial operational readiness deliverables expected for the given phase - Record update for each assessment category - Gather signoff from functional owners of assessed categories - Schedule OR review meetings (joint responsibility with Project Manager) - Status reporting Change Management: - Migration of application code repositories to GitHub Enterprise - Configuration of JFrog Curation to ensure Secure Coding practices are embedded. - Migration of build processes to GitHub Actions / TeamCity - Linkage of builds to binary repository storage (Artifactory) and deployment automation (OpenText Deployment Automation) - Liaise with infrastructure and application teams to ensure proposed solutions are workable. - Support and maintain all elements of the Build and Deployment platform. - Assistance with any required reporting from ServiceNow to support IT Change Management DORA Requirements. Configuration Management: - Configuration identification - Configuration Control - Configuration Status documentation - Verification and Audit In order to be successful in the role, you will need the following: Function requirements: - Ideally 3+ years of experience supporting financial institution(s) in the capacity of a Servic