Banking Channels Production Services Specialist Ll

Bank of America Bank of America · Banking · Chandler, AZ

This role provides production support for banking applications, focusing on incident and problem management, ensuring compliance with policies, and restoring complex production incidents. Responsibilities include driving triage and resolution, root cause analysis, managing tickets, coordinating restoration activities, and overseeing capacity/performance. The role also involves building automation scripts, supporting CI/CD pipelines, and partnering with engineering teams for service onboarding and upgrades.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive identification, triage, and resolution of production incidents with minimal business disruption
  2. Drive Problem Management, including root cause analysis (RCA), mitigation, and permanent fix tracking
  3. Manage incident and problem tickets through the enterprise ITSM platform, ensuring SLA adherence
  4. Coordinate real‑time restoration activities, engaging development, infrastructure, and vendor teams
  5. Oversee capacity and performance management, proactively identifying and mitigating risks

Skills

Required

  • 5-8 years of hands‑on experience in L2/L3 Application Production Support within banking or financial services
  • Strong experience supporting Corporate Banking and Channel applications, with a solid understanding of regional and global payment products and clearing systems.
  • Proven experience managing regional regulatory requirements and handling communications with regulators and senior stakeholders
  • Expertise in Incident, Problem, Change, Release, and Deployment Management
  • Hands‑on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as: Splunk, Dynatrace, Geneos
  • Experience working with CI/CD and automated release/deployment toolsets
  • Strong technical knowledge of Java / J2EE (Core Java, Web Services), integration technologies (SOAP/REST, MQ, Microservices), middleware platforms (IBM WebSphere MQ, JBoss, MuleSoft), and certificate management for secure application‑to‑application and external connectivity in banking environments
  • Unix and Windows operating systems with scripting capability
  • Databases (Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server, SQL) for production troubleshooting
  • Experience handling real‑time production incidents and high‑severity outages
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to engage senior stakeholders
  • Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and effective prioritization
  • Self‑motivated, proactive, resilient, and able to work independently and within global teams
  • Demonstrated flexibility to work shift patterns, weekends, and public holidays

Nice to have

  • Experience supporting Payments & Settlement systems,
  • End‑to‑end exposure to Production Shared Services, including: Service analytics and reporting, Application monitoring and governance, Capacity and availability management
  • Strong experience driving automation and operational efficiency improvements
  • Exposure to DevOps practices and closer alignment with engineering teams
  • Ability to define, track, and present service stability KPIs and operational metrics
  • Experience serving as a senior escalation point for complex, cross‑functional incidents
  • Awareness of technology risk management and operational risk controls in a banking environment
  • Experience mentoring junior team members and collaboration with offshore or regional support teams
  • Recognized as a senior subject‑matter expert (SME) providing guidance and thought leadership without direct people management responsibility

What the JD emphasized

  • proven experience managing regional regulatory requirements and handling communications with regulators and senior stakeholders
  • Experience handling real‑time production incidents and high‑severity outages
  • Demonstrated flexibility to work shift patterns, weekends, and public holidays