: Senior Tooling Architect - Enterprise Technology & IT Service Management
at FactSet Research Systems
London, England, United Kingdom -
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Immediate | 18 Jan, 2025 | Not Specified | 18 Oct, 2024 | N/A | Negotiation,Vendor Management,Thinking Skills,Communication Skills,Jenkins,Architecture,Agile,Enterprise Systems,Puppet,Interpersonal Skills | No | No |
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Description:
Position Overview:
We are seeking an experienced and innovative Senior Tooling Architect to join our IT Service Management team at FactSet. This role, whilst being part of our ITSM team, encompasses a broad range of enterprise technology tools, including monitoring, observability, automation, and delivery management solutions as well as core ITSM tooling. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise IT tools and related infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
Enterprise Tooling Architecture:
- Design and oversee the implementation of a comprehensive enterprise tooling architecture and strategy that supports ITSM, monitoring, observability, automation, and delivery management.
- Ensure that all tools integrate seamlessly with each other and with other enterprise systems.
- Develop and maintain a roadmap for enterprise tool enhancements and upgrades
Tool Integration and Optimization:
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure integration of tools across the Enterprise to reduce manual effort and maximise quality and productivity.
- Optimize existing tooling infrastructure to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance.
- Implement best practices, industry standards and frameworks for configuration and usage of enterprise technology tools.
ITSM Tooling:
- Design and oversee the implementation of ITSM tooling solutions that support ITIL-aligned processes.
- Ensure that ITSM tools integrate seamlessly with other enterprise tools and systems.
- Support and improve existing tooling implementation programmes.
- Develop and maintain a roadmap for ITSM tool enhancements and upgrades.
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure integration of ITSM tools with other essential enterprise tools (e.g., monitoring, CMDB, service desk, automation tools).
Innovation and Strategy:
- Stay updated on emerging enterprise technology tools and assess their potential impact and benefit to FactSet.
- Develop strategies to leverage new tools and technologies to enhance IT service delivery and overall business operations.
- Lead proof-of-concept initiatives to evaluate new tools and drive their adoption.
Process Improvement:
- Continuously improve IT and business processes through effective use of technology tooling.
- Identify opportunities to automate processes and reduce manual efforts.
- Collaborate with technology teams to ensure that tools support and enhance service delivery and business operations.
Governance and Compliance:
- Establish governance frameworks to ensure consistent and compliant usage of all enterprise tools.
- Develop and implement policies and procedures for tool management and usage.
- Conduct regular audits to ensure compliance with established policies and standards.
Training and Support:
- Provide training and support to technology staff on the effective use of enterprise tools.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for enterprise tools and related technologies.
Vendor Management:
- Collaborate with vendors to ensure that tools meet FactSet’s requirements.
- Manage vendor relationships and service-level agreements (SLAs).
- Evaluate and select new vendors and tools as needed.
Leadership and Mentoring:
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Minimum Requirements:
- Extensive experience (typically 15+ years) in enterprise technology, with a strong focus on management, effectiveness and architecture
- Significant experience in tooling architecture and enterprise systems.
- Proven expertise in designing, implementing, and managing a variety of enterprise tools such as ServiceNow Splunk, Jenkins, Puppet, Grafana and Lightstep.
- Experience with industry standard SDLCs including but not limited to Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid
Critical Skills:
- Demonstrated ability to integrate and optimize tooling across complex IT environments.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Exceptional organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills specific to a fast-paced, global corporate environment.
- Robust problem-solving and analytical capabilities.
- Experience in vendor management and negotiation.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey change proposals, document architecture and processes and liaise with stakeholders at all levels.
- Meticulous attention to detail to ensure accuracy and thoroughness.
Additional/Desirable:
- Strong understanding of ITSM best practices and principles; ITIL certification is preferred.
- Tooling/Technology Specific qualifications
- Experience of managing and working with offshore teams to support day to day activities.
- Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams and the skill to influence stakeholder decision-making with data-driven insights.
- Flexibility to adapt to changing organizational requirements, technologies, and methodologies.
- Experience of integrating with other industry tooling such as Apptio, Workday, Jira and DevOps tooling.
Education:
- A-Level or Equivalent college-level qualification
Responsibilities:
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REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
Information Technology/IT
IT Software - Other
Software Engineering
Graduate
Proficient
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London, United Kingdom