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Senior Manager It

Full time at a Laimoon Verified Company in Qatar
Posted on May 4, 2024

Job details

Business Unit: QNB - Qatar

Division: Not Applicable

Department: Not Applicable

Country: Oman

Closing Date: 26-Jun-2025

About QNB

Established in 1964 as the country's first Qatari-owned commercial bank, QNB Group has steadily grown to become the largest bank in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.

QNB Group's presence through its subsidiaries and associate companies extends to more than 31 countries across three continents providing a comprehensive range of advanced products and services. The total number of employees is more than 28,000 serving up to 20 million customers operating through 1,000 locations, with an ATM network of 4,300 machines.

QNB has maintained its position as one of the highest rated regional banks from leading credit rating agencies including Standard & Poor's (A), Moody's (Aa3) and Fitch (A+). The Bank has also been the recipient of many awards from leading international specialised financial publications.

Based on the Group's consistent strong financial performance and its expanding international presence, QNB currently ranks as the most valuable bank brand in the Middle East and Africa, according to Brand Finance Magazine.

QNB Group has an active community support program and sponsors various social, educational and sporting events.

Role Summary:

You will be responsible for administration and safeguarding from an IT perspective, to help identify and improve business system needs and objectives, current operational procedures, problems, input/ output requirements, data scope and successfully deliver services to support the enterprise's strategy systems and networks installed in the International branch with full compliance with the Group IT, security, operations and BCP policies

Role Description:

Implements KPI's and best practices for role

Lead and manage the day-to-day activities within the IT data centre for the branch. Act as a data centre supervisor responsible for and not limited to smooth operations of the systems, networks and reporting cycles.

Observes and promotes cost consciousness and efficiency, and enhance productivity, to minimize costs, avoid wastes, and optimize benefits for the bank

Act within the limits of the powers delegated to the incumbent and delegate authority to the respective staff and monitor exercise of the same.

Demonstrate clear understanding of the important factors behind the bank's financial & non-financial performance.

Supervise IT vendors responsible for maintaining and supporting IT systems and networks.

Gather statistics and prepare written reports on the status of the programming process for discussion with management and/or team members.

Interact regularly with managers and business partners to field queries and questions.

Train, manage and provide guidance to users.

Work independently within own unit and will be required to supervise IT Coordinators/System Admin employees to maintain the systems in international projects.

To assist customers in all their queries on Bank's product and seek solution to their requests

Maintain activities in accordance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with internal departments/ units to achieve improvements in turn-around time.

Build and maintain strong and effective relationship with all other related departments and units to achieve the Group's goals/objectives.

Provide timely and accurate information to the external and internal Auditors, Compliance, Financial Control and Risk Functions as and when required.

Develop yearly budget for I.T. and project plan.

Responsible for ensuring service levels and quality metrics are achieved.

Accountable for ensuring effective utilization of available resources and a cooperative team atmosphere.

Ensure that architectural issues and core competency directions are considered and resolved across all I.S. Projects, including those involving internal development, package acquisition and outsourcing.

Research, document, and implement program requirements and specifications.

Write business analysis and business requirement specifications for all projects undertaken by the branch.

Oversee the quality assurance of program logic, data processing, and error resolution.

Administer diagnostic analysis of test results and deliver solutions to critical areas.

Determine, develop, and maintain user manuals and guidelines.

Take an active role in cross-departmental projects when needed.

Develop an awareness of programming and design alternatives.

Establish vendor schedule to ensure proper coverage and support for systems.

Ensure backup DR readiness at the country level and head office level and conduct rehearsals. Update DR plan.

Monitor the SLA level performance and ensure compliance with policies and regulations.

Dispatch all incoming messages to all the concerned departments and maintain archives of all messages.

Configure all IT hardware following H.O. specifications.

Maintain all external storage and media inventory.

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