Assistant Vice President, Senior Production Support Specialist (ITSM)

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career. Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. A leading financial institution in Malaysia is seeking a Senior Production Specialist with expertise in IT Service Management to join their technology operations team. This role offers you the opportunity to play a pivotal part in ensuring high availability, stability, and operational excellence across a diverse application portfolio. You will be at the heart of production support, service management, business continuity, and project delivery initiatives, collaborating closely with regional teams, vendors, and stakeholders. The organisation is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where your interpersonal skills and collaborative approach are valued. Flexible working opportunities and supportive leadership ensure you can thrive while contributing to critical technology transformation projects that shape the future of banking services. • You will have the chance to lead production support activities for a major financial institution, ensuring seamless service reliability and operational health across multiple applications. • Enjoy flexible working opportunities and a supportive leadership culture that values collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous professional development. • Be empowered to drive operational resilience, participate in technology modernisation initiatives, and contribute to regulatory compliance efforts within a highly respected organisation. What you'll do: As a Senior Production Specialist IT Service Management based in Malaysia, you will be responsible for orchestrating the end-to-end production support lifecycle for mission-critical banking applications. Your day-to-day will involve monitoring service levels, resolving incidents swiftly to minimise business impact, overseeing maintenance schedules and deployments, as well as driving continuous improvement initiatives. You will collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams—application owners, infrastructure specialists, vendors—and act as the focal point for ITSM compliance. Your role also encompasses leading business continuity exercises such as disaster recovery drills and supporting regulatory audits. Success in this position requires you to maintain comprehensive documentation, coordinate operational readiness for new projects or enhancements, facilitate root cause analyses after incidents occur, and proactively identify areas for improvement. By leveraging your strong organisational skills and co-operative mindset, you will help ensure that technology operations remain resilient while supporting ongoing transformation projects. • Lead and manage production application support activities across the Bank's application portfolio, ensuring high availability, stability and service reliability by coordinating with various technical teams. • Establish and monitor service availability, operational health and support effectiveness against agreed service levels and operational targets through regular reviews and reporting. • Ensure timely resolution of production incidents, service disruptions and operational issues by acting as the escalation point during critical events. • Oversee scheduled maintenance, application deployments, production releases and operational readiness activities by liaising with infrastructure teams and vendors. • Drive proactive identification of operational risks, recurring issues, performance bottlenecks and improvement opportunities through trend analysis and root cause reviews. • Maintain application inventory, support documentation, operational procedures, system ownership records and support models to ensure accurate information is available for all stakeholders. • Coordinate support activities among application teams, infrastructure teams, regional technology teams, vendors and business stakeholders to foster effective communication and teamwork. • Lead service transition activities to ensure new systems, enhancements and projects are adequately prepared for production support by participating in project planning sessions. • Act as the primary IT Service Management (ITSM) lead and ensure compliance with IT service management standards, policies and procedures by governing incident, problem, change and service request processes. • Facilitate root cause analysis (RCA) and problem management reviews to implement corrective actions that enhance system stability. What you bring: Your proven experience as a Senior Production Specialist IT Service Management will enable you to excel in this role. You bring deep understanding of production support best practices within complex financial environments where dependability is paramount. Your expertise spans ITSM frameworks—incident resolution protocols, change governance processes—and you are adept at facilitating cross-team collaboration between technical specialists from different domains. You possess strong analytical abilities for identifying trends or recurring issues through data-driven reviews; your attention to detail ensures documentation remains current while your commitment to compliance supports audit readiness. Your interpersonal skills shine when communicating with stakeholders during criti…