Functional Applications Manager

Functional Applications Manager - Full Time - Navi Mumbai, India

At Sulzer, you are empowered to deliver superior results. As a pioneer in industry we have a proud heritage of innovation and continue to evolve for the future. Join our story and create your own impact by developing your expertise and building solutions that help make our lives safer, smarter and more sustainable.

Join our GF_IT team within Group Functions division in India as Functional Applications Manager to help us take to the next level.

In this role you will be accountable for:

• Single-point-of-contact (Technical Application Owner) for all functional, technical & maintenance activities for Functional Applications
• Monitor and maintain the performance of applications
• Review availability issues and problems to determine ways to improve availability
• Perform regular operational checks and take corrective actions, wherever required
• Investigate and coordinate resolution and recovery actions for assigned Incidents that cannot be resolved by the service desk, liaising with end users and relevant IT functions as required
• Liaise with business partners to ensure existing and planned application developments are prioritized and aligned with business strategy
• Leverage existing application portfolio for new Demands, wherever possible
• Manage the external Vendors supporting this application portfolio
• Owner of application repository in Service Now
• Monitor & manage the requests on Service Now for adding new applications
• Categorize the application portfolio into - Operational, To-be-retired, Archived etc.
• Co-ordinate & monitor archival & retirement activities with Application owners & IT teams
• Conduct interviews with Application owners for updating applications’ information
• Capture Application associated infrastructure information

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• Vendor management experience in a multi-vendor and multi geography scenario

• Good working knowledge of Managing technical upgrades of applications, alongside vendor

• Good working knowledge of Application infrastructure management

• Good understanding of InfoSec concepts, Risk Mgmt and Data Privacy concepts

• Experience with IT Budgeting

• Experience with project management methodology

  
  

If you’re ITIL Certified with MS SQL and database management, experience with ticketing and service management tool’s working knowledge will be an advantage

Your benefits:

• {Benefit 1: 22 vacation days + 9 days Casual leave + 8 days Sick Leave + 13 days Festival holidays}
• {Benefit 2: Defined contribution pension scheme}
• {Benefit 3: Hospitalization insurance benefit}
• {Benefit 4: On-site car parking}
• {Benefit 5: Subsidized cafeteria}
• {Benefit 6: Long service awards}

Location:We are based in Navi Mumbai. This is a great place to live because, you get to live close to the biggest Metro of India Mumbai at tier 1 city cost, very well connected to Mumbai, Close to International airport including the new one coming up, close to outdoor tourist locations of Mumbai including Toy train connected Hill station, very good schools & colleges.

Have a question about the role? Reach out to Purav Kamdar at Purav.Kamdar@sulzer.com. We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Sulzer is an equal opportunity employer, committed to the strength of a diverse workforce.

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