Technical Specialist for Data & Financial Services

Position Overview

Job Title: Technical-Specialist – Application Management, SAS Mainframe

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

This role is of Technical-Specialist / Application Owner (ITAO) who is accountable for the Application Management of portfolio of applications. The ITAO has to ensure that the application(s) are enhanced and maintained in accordance to the Bank’s IT Security Risk and Compliance requirements. The Technology Roadmap within DB and the Business plans. The ITAO should work with relevant stakeholders of the application and ensure that candidate effectively identifies and manages risks, issues, compliance gaps in line with DB IT risk and compliance policies and also the road map of the business stakeholders. Service levels need to be evolved and met based on business needs. ITAO need to proactively escalate with relevant stake holders to ensure that there is no slippage in meeting IT Risk, compliance and audit goals for the application, portfolio of applications.

This role expects the person to have experience in Technology & Development.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

The Application Owner oversees a broad set of duties.

On one hand an ITAO has a management responsibility for a set of application within the portfolio. On the other hand, the ITAO is requested to provide detailed administrative information in self-assessments to comply with the IT Policies & Standards.

The following are typically some of the tasks for which an ITAO is responsible for:

• Support the application software development / projects.
• Facilitate Disaster Recovery activities by reviewing DR plans and coordinating the execution of DR exercise for the application.
• Manage Internal and external application audits and Audit issue remediation activities.
• Manage remediation of gaps in application lifecycle management activities such as Account recertification, remediation of Application configuration gaps etc
• Manage application related Risk and Compliance Evaluation tasks and resolution of gaps in this area.
• Manage any IT Security incidents that may occur in the application.
• Plan and Manage Application events and Database Events monitoring using Bank wide standard monitoring tools.
• Manage application capacity forecasting and monitoring.
• Plan and manage Application user access related tasks.
• Plan for Application Hardware / Software / License upgrades or migration activities to align to the compliant platforms.

Your skills and experience

• Engineer with Strong knowledge on SAS @Mainframe
• Good Knowledge about the core SDLC processes and tools such as HP ALM, Jira, Service Now.
• Hands own experience on Mainframe environment.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of Java, Oracle technology
• Preferably, experience in building and maintaining the CI/CD tool chain, explicitly on TeamCity and Urban Code Deployment (UCD)
• Strong analytical skills.
• Proficient communication skills.
• Fluent in English (written/verbal).
• Ability to work in virtual teams and in matrixed organizations.
• Excellent team player.
• Open minded and willing to learn business and technology.
• Keeps pace with technical innovation.
• Understands the relevant business area.
• Ability to share information, transfer knowledge and expertise to team members.

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.
• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.

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