Applications Manager – Service Manager

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Applications/Service Manager operating and improving business applications for a Zürich client. Coordinating releases, incident resolution, interfaces, documentation, and data maintenance.

Responsibilities:

  • Ensure the stable operation and monitoring of applications
  • Coordinate and monitor activities to ensure availability, recoverability, performance, and resource efficiency
  • Analyze and resolve application incidents and develop workarounds
  • Support and advise users on application usage and process execution
  • Inform application users about incidents, application notifications, and planned interruptions
  • Coordinate between business units, application owners, support teams, and developers
  • Support the specification, testing, and rollout of application releases
  • Plan and coordinate releases, including the preparation of installation plans
  • Gather technical requirements and develop solution concepts for the enhancement of applications
  • Align release agreements and coordinate implementation with relevant stakeholders
  • Maintain and further develop interfaces between applications
  • Create and support change requests for application developers
  • Create, update, and maintain operating procedures, user manuals, and technical documentation
  • Prepare customer-specific analyses and statistics
  • Perform data cleansing and data maintenance

Requirements:

  • Completed education or training in computer science, business information systems, or a comparable qualification
  • Several years of experience in application management, service management, or application operations
  • Extensive experience operating and supporting business applications
  • Very good knowledge of release and deployment management, as well as the planning and coordination of application releases
  • Proven ability to analyze, troubleshoot, and permanently resolve application incidents
  • Good knowledge of interface management and collaboration with various IT and business departments
  • Experience creating, maintaining, and updating technical documentation, operating procedures, and user manuals
  • Experience with data maintenance and the preparation of customer-specific analyses and statistics
  • Strong communication and coordination skills
  • Independent, structured, and solution-oriented approach to work
  • Strong customer and service orientation, along with teamwork and a high sense of responsibility
  • Analytical thinking and a high degree of initiative
  • Fluent in German and proficient in English

Benefits:

  • 100% workload during the onboarding phase (approximately 2 months), followed by a reduction to 50%