The Big Data Support Engineer Lead is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family. Responsibilities: Has a strong understanding and experience in leading all aspects of Incident Management, Problem Management, Service Improvements, Monitoring and Observability instrumentation, SRE(Site Reliability engineering) Frameworks and adoption, Disaster recovery and resiliency, and automation of production services. Leads the production monitoring, Implementation of Observability using AppD, Splunk, Grafana & strong knowledge of monitoring tools used in the industry. Collaborates with development team, Architecture teams and Infrastructure teams and leads service improvement plans. Supports the delivery of the L2 Service Delivery and SRE (Site reliability engineering) objectives for the business/region. Leads the team and contributes towards achievement of service performance against targets for the organization. Strong bias towards automation and using SRE Framework. Responsible for execution of day-to-day service delivery functions including the following: Incident Management: Performs incident triage, root cause analysis, and collect and validate business impact. Service Management: Collaborates with Technology Organization and manages service risk/maturity assessments and drives the Service Improvement Plans. Knowledge Management: Develops/tests knowledge objects to support increased L0, L1, and L2 resolution. Change Management: Review and approve changes. Capacity Management: Review capacity across service components. Continuity Management: Schedule and facilitate COB testing, maintain recovery plans. Configuration Management: Build/update service configuration. Third Party Asset Management: Manage 3rd party asset management (licensing compliance/optimization) Service Readiness: This activity encompasses review of major releases & new application install from very early stage of the project/program, to ensure Risks are documented and remediated before production Go Live. Service Risks: Ability to identify, document and Manage Service Risks within Applications and effectively manage the resolutions of Risks.