BT Global - Senior Associate - Problem Management (3-4 yrs)

Job Description :

Kick-start your international career with one of the worlds leading communication companies!

British Telecom is one of the worlds leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its activities include the provision of networked IT services globally.

Purpose of Role :

- Ensure positive perception of the problem management process

- Continuously improve our capability on problem management provided to our customer

- Perform the management of both reactive root-cause analysis (RCA) and proactive trend analysis

- Communicate and coordinate with concerned parties through the Problem Management process

- Prevent re-occurrence of Incidents and minimize the impact of incidents that cannot be prevented

- Overlook the Known-error database

Responsibilities :

- Ensure and monitor that appropriate action is taken to anticipate, investigate and resolve problems in systems and services

- Maintain problem and task records to ensure that such problems are fully documented within the relevant reporting system(s).

- Coordinate with the internal Subject Matter Expert (SME) teams to guarantee assigned resources to work on Problems.

- Work with stakeholders to agree prioritisation of problems and deliverables associated with specific problems.

- Make and drive root cause investigations, problem investigations, Managing RCA between technical teams

- Follow up with appropriate SMEs to complete both corrective and improvement actions defined during RCA.

- Analysis and reporting of incident trend data to identify and eliminate root causes.

- Review problems in conjunction with service level agreements to identify any issues and their impacts; specifies any required changes.

- Support development and monitor implementation progress on permanent solutions

- May involve liaising with internal, external and third party suppliers.

- Maintain known error database updating with relevant solutions

- Production of statistics and reports to demonstrate performance of the Problem Management process.

- Ensure that agreed service levels are measured and monitored on an ongoing basis

- Ensure that the policy and standards for problem management are fit for purpose, current and are correctly implemented.

- Contribute to the development and implementation/improvement of policies and procedures.

- Provide proactive activities in cooperation with other processes or functions (event, capacity, operations, design, transition)

- Follows ITIL framework

- Raise risks and provide structured recommendations

- Support the development of mitigations and contingency plans

- Challenging non-fact based decisions

- Quality assures Problem Management output prior to publication for the protection of both BT and the customer.

- Comply with BT security policy, standards, baseline, and procedures

- Complete all mandatory security trainings timely and successfully

Required Experiences and Skills :

- Minimum bachelor degree and previous problem management working experience

- Excellent, elevated level of business English (both verbal and written)

- ITIL V3 Foundation certificate

- ITIL v3 Intermediate / Expert preferred

- COBIT certificate (not mandatory but a plus)

- Provides great customer experience and support

- Excellent on manage parallel work streams

- Team-player attitude

- Expert on making presentations and present this to wider audience.

- Excellent communication and Customer care

- Customer-oriented thinking

- Willingness to handle tricky situations

- Act properly and consequently in stressed situations

- Desire for learning and knowledge sharing

- Committed for strong documentation

- Confident Windows and MS Office user

Desirable Skills :

- Affinity to technology and processes.

- Understanding of Data network, however voice IT products is a plus.

- CCNA Preferred

- Enthusiastic and pro-active personality.

- Good understanding of procedures and application of procedures and concepts within own subject area (and understanding them in the context of the business).

- Adapts information/style to the audience, explaining difficult issues clearly, to establish consensus and gain agreement.

- Experienced and competent in own area.

- Good understanding and practice of Problem Solving techniques (5 Whys, Fishbone, Kepner-Tregoe, etc.).

- Able to appropriately use a range of relevant statistical functions to summarize and analyse data.

- Able to identify root cause of problems provided all required information is available within domain.

- Network (LAN, WAN, Wireless, IPT, etc.) end user support (not required but a plus).

- Experience with the most common ITSM tools available in the market (BMC, Service Now, CA, HP).

- Shares own expertise with others.

- Provide guidance and support to others. Completes own role independently or with minimal supervision/guidance.

- Applies knowledge/skills to a range of standard and non-standard activities. Interprets client needs,

assessing the full requirements.

- Able to construct presentation slide decks summarising key service level outcomes, trending, root cause information and mitigation detail.

- Confident presenter able to tailor material and delivery to meet different audience requirements.

- Identifies solutions to non-standard tasks/queries.

- Awareness of internal/external business issues and best practice in own discipline which is then applied to own role.

- Creates informal networks with key contacts within own area.

- Behaves with high professionalism, is always on time and manages priorities and expectations effectively for self and others.

- Motivation letters are more than welcomed!

What we offer :

- Supportive corporate culture

- Inspiring working teams

- Competitive salary and benefit package

- Professional development programs, trainings, and educational support

- Employee and Family Friendly Workplace

- Private health insurance package

Why you should join BT?

You will play a vital part in making technology and communications accessible on an unparalleled scale. You will be challenged to tackle recent problems. Always on the lookout for ways to improve things and make life easier for our customers.

Making a better world, together

Our products and services are essential to the fabric of todays society. We underpin everything from global trade and industry to economic growth and social infrastructure. Our technology gives people the power and freedom to create possibilities reaching further, aiming higher, and making their voices heard.