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- Formulate the Development & Technical Operations strategic plan, translating Solutions priorities into objectives, KPIs, resource allocations, and coordination mechanisms with Digital
- Define boundaries for Product Development & Deployment, Technical Operations Monitoring, Product Vendor Operations, and Technical Support, clarifying roles, cadences, and decision rights aligned with Solutions governance
- Define solution architecture, development, and release governance, establishing workflows and checkpoints integrating digital, cybersecurity, data governance, and quality requirements across the product lifecycle
- Oversee translation of specifications and prototypes into development backlogs, clarifying ambiguities, prioritizing change requests, and validating impacts on scope, timelines, and resources
- Ensure provisioning of development and integration environments with Digital, covering infrastructure, middleware, data requirements, and security controls aligned with standards and roadmaps
- Oversee vendor engagement and performance tracking, validating scope adherence, milestones, and quality standards, approving deliverable acceptances with deviations, risks, and remediation actions
- Ensure release readiness validations with Digital and Project Delivery & Assurance, confirming functional and security compliance, authorizing cutover plans and rollback procedures
- Approve deployment schedules and activation windows, ensuring migration controls, API protocols, and smoke testing results meet acceptance thresholds and continuity requirements
- Oversee training and enablement governance by approving guides, curricula, and train-the-trainer approaches, monitoring adoption feedback to refine materials and sustain proficiency
- Monitor service health through enterprise platforms, defining metrics, logs, and alert thresholds, and ensuring incident detection, classification, and escalation to responsible teams
- Ensure root cause analysis and corrective action governance for recurring incidents, tracking backlogs, owners, and deadlines, validating closure effectiveness before signoff
- Oversee second- and third-level technical support operations, ensuring ticket diagnosis quality, corrective fixes approval, and consolidated release notes for Customer Care communications
- Approve development compliance reports evaluating delivered features against approved standards, enabling Digital Excellence & Innovation’s review and endorsement
- Report on service health, incident trends, and ticket issues through dashboards, reporting risks and improvement opportunities to product managers
- Maintain improvement mechanisms by capturing lessons from development, deployment, training, and operations, updating processes, playbooks, and backlogs to enhance reliability, performance, and experience
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