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The Senior Associate Problem Management Analyst takes responsibility for researching the root causes of incidents. The individuals in this position engages in proactive problem management by analyzing trends or historical data of incidents and services.
What You'll Be Doing
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for analyzing incident trends, identifying repeat incidents, and determining where the application of problem-solving efforts will add the greatest value for the client.
- Accountable for managing the lifecycle of all problems.
- Routinely monitors logged incidents by category within a specific time frame to identify potential problems.
- Responsible for facilitating the identification of root cause for major problems.
- Ensure the prevention of incidents and be responsible for minimizing the impact of unavoidable incidents.
- Work with incident management colleagues to ensure that temporary solutions (workarounds) are available.
- Performs trend analysis of important services or historical incidents and maintains a Known Error Database containing all problems and workarounds.
- Determine if problems escalated from the incident management process are valid based on a set of predefined rules and closes the problem or refer it to the knowledge management process.
- Record the problem description, priority, and severity and assign the associated configuration items to the problem record ensuring that links to the incident are made to the problem record.
- Classify and assign problems for resolution by determining the resource requirements and liaising with either internal or external resources (service provider) to ensure resolution of the problem.
Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:
- Good understanding of the business needs and expectations
- Solid understanding of the basics of the technical aspects of problems
- Able to identify the subject matter experts in each area of the business
- Critical-thinking and root-cause-analysis skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Ability to analyze statistical data
- Ability to think critically about the issues at hand
- Ability to foster deep collaboration with incident and change management functions and working relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
- Strong ICT Services Management skills and knowledge and solid ITIL skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills; including the ability to proficiently facilitate meetings and conduct briefings
- A good understanding of ITSM toolsets to support and facilitate problem management
Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or related
- ITIL certification
- OSA certification
Required Experience:
- Moderate level experience in IT Service Management / Operational environment
- Moderate level incident and problem management experience
- Moderate level experience in managing processes within an ITIL (or equivalent) environment
- Moderate level experience of working in a highly technical environment
- Moderate level experience/training in risk-management techniques
- Data and statistical analysis experience
- Moderate level experience with virtual cross-team or vendor communication
- Moderate level experience working directly with stakeholders, customers, and clients
Workplace type:
Hybrid Working
About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.
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