Senior Analyst- Capacity Planning & Performance Analytics First Abu Dhabi Bank FAB

Overall objectives

To ensure that the IT infrastructure and application environments are right-sized and proactively scaled to meet current and future business demand.

To analyse and report on system performance trends, utilisation patterns, and workload forecasts across compute, storage, network, and application layers.

To support strategic investment planning and operational readiness by identifying capacity risks, inefficiencies, and optimisation opportunities.

To enable a data-driven approach to resource planning, cost control, and service resilience.

Role specific responsibilities

Monitor and analyse system and application performance data to identify utilisation trends and capacity constraints.

Forecast resource requirements based on historical trends, business growth projections, seasonal patterns, and planned changes.

Support project and release planning by providing performance impact assessments and capacity risk analysis.

Contribute to cost optimisation efforts by identifying over-provisioned resources and underutilised assets.

Maintain performance models for core systems and review them regularly with architecture and engineering teams.

Develop and refine KPIs and SLIs that measure capacity headroom, saturation risk, and performance thresholds.

General functional responsibilities

Maintain documentation on capacity thresholds, utilisation baselines, and forecasting assumptions.

Collaborate with application owners, infrastructure leads, and finance teams to align technical capacity plans with business budgets.

Support post-incident reviews by analysing whether resource saturation contributed to outages or performance degradation.

Ensure capacity planning processes are embedded in change management, release planning, and IT strategy reviews.

Participate in annual budget planning and infrastructure lifecycle management by supplying data-driven recommendations.

Stay updated with evolving technologies and tools in performance analytics and capacity forecasting.