IT Application Manager

We are looking for an application manager with solid experience in managing projects within IT. This role will be based in our Bratislava office. The candidate brings a high level of verbal and written communications skills in order to collaborate with your IT colleagues and business stakeholder. You will manage applications using well defined ITIL based processes. Your goal will be to ensure the availability, smooth performance and quality of applications (including 3rd party, externally hosted and in house developed) based on a range of different technologies.
Acting as Release Manager you will be responsible for coordinating development, testing, deployment, and provision of documentation. You will deliver application releases and will identify and drive technical improvements within your area of responsibility.
In a heavily outsourced IT environment, you will manage offshore and near shore developers and take responsibility for the quality of their delivered work. You will also bring a continuous improvement mindset to the job contributing to the ongoing development of internal processes.

Your activities will cover:
- Development lifecycle phases (application releases and maintenance projects) to production induction and support
- Facilitate the business requirements gathering sessions
- Assure the information is captured/documented as Change Request out from the business requirements gathering sessions.
- Analyze business requirements comprehensively together with the customer, verify the underlying business need and identify potential solution options
- Support Testing Team in transforming the business requirements into test cases
- Quality assurance of all vendor deliverables – from solution design, technical design, technical delivery till the solution and operations documentation