Overview Are you looking to take your career from good to great? As an employee of PenFed, every day is an opportunity to thrive, and be part of a team working to ensure our organization is providing world class service to our members, employees, and our communities. We exist to help our members realize their full potential, educate and encourage their dreams, and make every effort to follow our mission and help our members “do better.” Joining PenFed is more than being an employee; it’s about being a part of the PenFed family. PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Director, ITSM at our Tysons, Virginia or San Antonio, Texas location. The primary purpose of this job is to help improve system availability through prevention of issues causing unavailability, detecting through effective monitoring and early intervention, managing the outage calls with all the stakeholders efficiently and purposefully. This role is critical in ensuring the stability, reliability, and continuous improvement of IT services in a dynamic, high availability environment. The Director, ITSM will ensure that incidents, problems and changes are managed effectively, minimizing the impact to PenFed members and internal customers. The job function requires extensive experience in leading and maturing ITIL-based processes, specifically in Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management. Adequate experience in managing overseas vendor partners is essential. In addition, this position will work with IT Governance, Business Resiliency, Audit, Vendors, Business Stakeholders, PenFed Senior Management and other IT teams to reduce the number and frequency of incidents and improve service recovery times. Responsibilities Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned. + Own and drive the strategy, governance, and execution of Incident, Problem and Change management functions for the IT organization, including the management of the lifecycle of changes, incidents and associated problems. + Establish KPIs, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms to monitor service health and drive accountability. + Oversee the incident response process, ensuring timely and effective resolution of high-severity incidents. Aid in facilitating communications during these incidents, including verbal/written executive level status, running related conference calls and acting as a liaison with business stakeholders. Provide verbal and written status updates to all stakeholders. + For any high severity incidents, capture any required follow up and ensure follow up assignments are completed. Drive root cause analysis and follow-up actions for high severity incidents. Update processes and procedures accordingly to ensure improvements are made as a result of lessons learned. + Coordinate, monitor, and support general activities related to incidents, problems and changes. Facilitate daily, weekly and monthly meetings related to Incident, Problem and Change Management. Identify production environment stability trends. Escalate concerns through the appropriate process to minimize business impact with a key objective of High Severity and Major Incident deterrence. + Analysis of the incident, problem and change data, as well as recurring alerts, to identify the associated root causes and develops plans and actions to resolve and eliminate these problems at all Severity Levels. + Assess risk of changes, incidents and problems, along with other IT staff, to appropriately prioritize scheduling of production implementations, incident remediation changes and problem resolution changes. + Assess risk survey questions and scoring to ensure changes are adequately addressed at the right risk level. Adjust risk scores as required to ensure appropriate assessments. + Develop and maintain ticket escalation steps and contacts. Drive decision-making for incident resolution to minimize impact to business. Escalate to Senior IT Management as needed. + Ensure that all IT teams follow the Incident, Problem and Change Management processes and that the required information is properly documented in the incident record. + Develop, drive, and maintain the effectiveness of incident, problem and change management processes and procedures. Participate in reviews and audits of the process. Challenge the process and make recommendations for improvement. + Assist in developing incident and problem management to show performance within the environment. + Work with IT Governance, Business Resiliency, Audit, Vendors, Business Stakeholders, PenFed Senior Management and other IT teams. + Monitors for compliance of defined process standards and policies. + Manage relationships with third party service providers, ensuring contractual obligations, SLAs, and performance standards are met. + Conduct regular service reviews and performance evaluations with vendors. + Collaborate with procurement and legal teams for contract negotiations and renewals. Qualifications Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered. + Bachelor’s Degree in a related field. + Minimum of 20 years of experience in IT service management, with a least 10 years in a leadership role, preferably in financial services. + Minimum of 5 years of experience working with and managing outsourced or managed service providers. + Experience in leadership role dealing with internal and external auditors and regulators. + Proficient in Change Management, Problem Management, and Incident Management in an ITIL environment. + Proven experience managing ITIL-based processes across large, complex environments. + Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills. + High proficiency with creating and presenting management reports and Dashboards. + Require excellent customer service, oral and written communication skills. + Basic knowledge and experience in using enterprise level monitoring tools and dashboards. + Demonstrated ability to perform successfully in a high stress, open environment where frequent & direct interaction & collaboration with customers & peers is ordinary. + ITIL v3 or v4 certification a plus. + Familiarity with service management tools. Supervisory Responsibility This position will supervise employees. Licenses and Certifications ITIL v3 or v4 certification a plus. Work Environment While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise. *Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.* Travel Limited travel to various worksites is required. About Us Established in 1935, PenFed today is one of the country’s strongest and most stable financial institutions with over 2.9 million members and over $31 billion in assets. We serve members in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Guam and Puerto Rico. We are federally insured by NCUA and we are an Equal Housing Lender. We are available to members worldwide, via the web, seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. We provide our employees with a lucrative benefits package including robust medical, dental and vision plan options, plenty of paid time off, 401k with employer match, on-site fitness facilities at our larger locations, and more. Equal Employment OpportunityPenFed management will maintain and observe personnel policies which will not discriminate or permit harassment or retaliation against a person because of race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, military or veteran status or obligation, the presence of a physical and/or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, and all statuses protected by applicable state or local law in all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, position classifications, work assignments, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment, and in all other terms and conditions of employment. PenFed will also prohibit retaliation against individuals for raising a complaint of discrimination or harassment or participating in an investigation of same. PenFed will also reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can apply for a job or perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation or if the accommodation creates an undue hardship to PenFed. Contact human resources (HR) with any questions or requests for accommodation at 402-639-8568. #LI-Hybrid