Application Service Manager (Web & Mobile)

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At TUI, we never stop looking for new ways to delight our customers and grow our business. We are developing and delivering new digital capabilities across our business that will transform our customers’ experience.

In Digital Platforms, we are creating a cross platform, unified Service Management capability to drive seamless delivery of the digital vision as implemented across the portfolio of large scale programmes and projects.

This is a great opportunity to join a team of delivery focused, innovative people dedicated to providing customers with an inspiring, exciting and memorable experience covering TUI’s entire operation; online presence, mobile platforms, retail network, contact centres, aircraft and ships.

What you will be doing

Working with the rest of the Digital Platforms Team, the Applications and Infrastructure Manager role is critical in ensuring the successful delivery of service to customer and users across Europe and all of TUI’s destinations.

The Application Service Manager will have overall responsibility for Digital Platforms applications and infrastructure services, which includes in-house and externally developed applications and hosted services (on prem and AWS). You will lead an internal team of application technology experts. You will also provide technical leadership and assurance of our third party providers, whilst ensuring the day to day management of our technology services is aligned to both best practice standards and Tui’s overall IT strategy.

Specific responsibilities will include:

Provide technical leadership of application and infrastructure services. Oversee and ensure the timely and effective provision of high quality applications and infrastructure support, and consultancy to other IT teams and third party providers. Manage a team of application support analysts, security leads and DevOps resources. Build, document and maintain extensive operational and architectural knowledge of all Digital Platforms technology landscape and their interfaces. Ensure documentation is kept up-to-date and accurate.

Works closely with third party suppliers to resolve day-to-day application and operational issues. Ensure the resolution of incidents in a timely manner, ensuring these are resolved and any consequential fixes or changes are delivered within time and quality constraint. Monitor the operational performance and technology trends. Carry out technical problem trend analysis and implement improvements to reduce costs and increase stability and quality. Work closely with the Project Delivery teams, accepting new projects or changing into production.

Provide the appropriate level of support diagnostics and performance monitoring. Define the application and infrastructure monitoring (tooling) strategy to ensure readily available access to business and operational IT performance mectrics. Monitoring supplier and internal teams service level performance, to ensure achievement of business SLAs/KPIs. Initiate actions and improvements to meet target levels. Ensure project teams and third party suppliers include operational requirements in their future designs. Budget planning and control, monitoring on-going running costs. Work with third party suppliers and internal departments to develop a service culture. Management of the team to include performance appraisals, regular one-to-one meetings and identification of training requirements to ensure effective career development. Drive efficiency and effectiveness of the IT Infrastructure teams.

Own IT service continuity (DR) process. Ensure regular and representative testing. Be responsible for all elements of IT operational security. Ensure sufficient capacity to support pattern of business activity (peak periods) without incur unnecessary costs. Drive a supplier and infrastructure consolidation strategy.

What we are looking for

           A strong background in SaaS, servers, storage, network and cloud technologies.

           A balanced mix of business / commercial experience with excellent and deep service delivery capabilities and deep understanding of technology. Ideal candidates will have held successful senior roles in large scale, international service delivery environments.

           A self-starter, high initiative, innovative, creative thinker who pushes the envelope but can also work within a framework. The successful individual will be someone who is highly driven and passionate about going beyond the centre of the bell curve.

           A person able to work at high levels of abstraction and also get into details where needed and take a hands on, pragmatic approach to challenges.

           A highly analytical thinker, able to understand challenges quickly and work with their teams to derive and implement creative, forward thinking solutions that utilize technology, process and the team’s talent’s to best affect.

           Strong delivery focus: the successful candidate will be someone who derives their sense of success from bringing major services to production and successful, scaled operation.

           Strong stakeholder management skills including experience and ability to manage stakeholders spanning executive board members of very large corporations through to user stakeholders from the wider range of communities adopting digital business change.

           Excellent communication skills are critical, including the ability to motivate, persuade and influence as well as drive mandated policy at a senior and exec management level.

           Accountable for the delivery of clear and accurate communication to senior management and the business community during all high priority Incidents in line with documented reporting processes

           The successful candidate will be a commercially aware, experienced leader, capable of working across an international business and providing leadership and direction to stakeholders and teams. Drive, resilience and energy as well as the ability to take ownership of decisions under pressure and adapt quickly to changes in priority are all critical to success.

Working within TUI group

TUI Group is the leading tourism business with over 67,000 employees across the world. The Group includes our unique hotel portfolio, our cruise ships, our own aircraft, tour operators, travel agencies, and much more. At TUI, we have embarked on a journey of development towards a more digital, connected and integrated future. But we haven’t arrived there yet. Join us now and shape the future of travel.

You can look forward to a competitive salary, pension scheme and further benefits such as generous holiday discounts, great rates with foreign exchange and discounts with retailers.

How to apply

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