Problem Management Professional

Job Description

Kick-start your international career with one of the world’s leading communication companies!

British Telecom is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its activities include the provision of networked IT services globally.

Purpose of Role

• Ensure positive perception of the problem management process.
• Continuously improve our capability on problem management provided to our customer.
• Perform the management of both reactive root-cause analysis (RCA) and proactive trend analysis.
• Communicate and coordinate with concerned parties through the Problem Management process.
• Prevent re-occurrence of Incidents and minimize the impact of incidents that cannot be prevented.
• Overlook the Known error database.

Responsibilities

• Ensure and monitor that appropriate action is taken to anticipate, investigate and resolve problems in systems and services.
• Maintain problem and task records to ensure that such problems are fully documented within the relevant reporting system(s).
• Coordinate with the internal Subject Matter Expert (SME) teams to guarantee assigned resources to work on Problems.
• Work with stakeholders to agree prioritisation of problems and deliverables associated with specific problems.
• Make and drive root cause investigations, problem investigations, Managing RCA between technical teams.
• Follow up with appropriate SMEs to complete both corrective and improvement actions defined during RCA.
• Analysis and reporting of incident trend data to identify and eliminate root causes.
• Review problems in conjunction with service level agreements to identify any issues and their impacts; specifies any required changes.
• Support development and monitor implementation progress on permanent solutions
• May involve liaising with internal, external and third party suppliers.
• Maintain known error database updating with relevant solutions
• Production of statistics and reports to demonstrate performance of the Problem Management process.
• Ensure that agreed service levels are measured and monitored on an ongoing basis
• Ensure that the policy and standards for problem management are fit for purpose, current and are correctly implemented.
• Contribute to the development and implementation/improvement of policies and procedures.
• Provide proactive activities in cooperation with other processes or functions (event, capacity, operations, design, transition)
• Follows ITIL framework
• Raise risks and provide structured recommendations
• Support the development of mitigations and contingency plans
• Challenging non-fact based decisions
• Quality assures Problem Management output prior to publication for the protection of both BT and the customer.
• Comply with BT security policy, standards, baseline and procedures
• Complete all mandatory security trainings timely and successfully

Required Experiences and Skills

• Minimum bachelor’s degree and 8+ years problem management working experience.
• Good understanding of CCNA Level Data network is required, additionally voice IT products is a plus.
• Excellent, high level of business English (both verbal and written)
• ITIL V3/V4 Foundation certificate
• ITIL V3 OSA - Operational Support and Analysis Capability certificate
• Good understanding and practice of Problem-Solving techniques (5 Whys, Fishbone, Kepner-Tregoe, etc.).
• Provides great customer experience and support.
• Excellent on manage parallel work streams.
• Team-player attitude
• Expert on making presentations and present this to wider audience.
• Excellent communication and Customer care
• Customer-oriented thinking
• Willingness to handle difficult situations.
• Act properly and consequently in stressed situations
• Desire for learning and knowledge sharing.
• Committed for strong documentation.
• Confident Windows and MS Office user

Desirable Skills

• Affinity to technology and processes.
• Enthusiastic and pro-active personality.
• Good understanding of procedures and application of procedures and concepts within own subject area (and understanding them in the context of the business).
• Adapts information/style to the audience, explaining difficult issues clearly, to establish consensus and gain agreement.
• Experienced and competent in own area.
• Able to appropriately use a range of relevant statistical functions to summarize and analyse data.
• Able to identify root cause of problems provided all required information is available within domain.
• Good Understanding of Network (LAN, WAN, Wireless, IPT, etc.) end user support.
• Experience with the most common ITSM tools available in the market (BMC, Service Now, CA, HP).
• Shares own expertise with others.
• Provide guidance and support to others. Completes own role independently or with minimal supervision/guidance.
• Applies knowledge/skills to a range of standard and non-standard activities. Interprets client needs, assessing the full requirements.
• Able to construct presentation slide decks summarising key service level outcomes, trending, root cause information and mitigation detail.
• Confident presenter able to tailor material and delivery to meet different audience requirements.
• Identifies solutions to non-standard tasks/queries.
• Awareness of internal/external business issues and best practice in own discipline which is then applied to own role.
• Creates informal networks with key contacts within own area.
• Behaves with high professionalism, is always on time and manages priorities and expectations effectively for self and others.

Motivation letters are more than welcomed!

What we offer

• Supportive corporate culture
• Inspiring working teams
• Competitive salary and benefit package
• Professional development programs, trainings and educational support
• Employee and Family Friendly Workplace
• Private health insurance package

Why you should join BT?

You’ll play a vital part in making technology and communications accessible on an unparalleled scale. You’ll be challenged to tackle new problems. Always on the lookout for ways to improve things and make life easier for our customers.

Making a better world, together

Our products and services are essential to the fabric of today’s society. We underpin everything from global trade and industry to economic growth and social infrastructure. Our technology gives people the power and freedom to create possibilities – reaching further, aiming higher, and making their voices heard.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.