Finacle Application Support

Responsibility:

• End to End Handing of Finacle application production incidents with work ranging from incident analysis, driving recoveries along with interfacing systems, communicate on major incidents, Code fix, SIT Testing, UAT Test planning (Scope, duration), review production changes before deployment Source promotion to production.
• Application improvements ranging from performance and operational improvements, identification and remediation of system and automate Toils.
• Automation of manual activities/ processes and System Health checks for Production teams. (Automation experience required) and ensuring SLIs/ SLOs are met.
• Working in a stretch role to take forward production issues from analysis to production fix/deployment
• Follow Production Support Processes and giving input to strengthen time to time
• Providing status to leads, stakeholders and working with vendors to review the design/fix/enabling for production deployment
• Own communication for Incidents (SLA breaches, Application Major Incidents, Logistics issue) and responsible for communications with management
• Coordinate recurring issues and ensure long-term resolution through proper Incident and Problem Management
• Working with various teams like Infrastructure, development team to resolve, analysis of root cause for complex issues and outages
• Strong stakeholder management skills with focus on continuous service improvement, consistent delivery and stability of production.
• Drives Root Cause Analysis with technology partners, post incident resolution and facilitates RCA reviews.
• Work with Risk team to respond timely to Audit & Risk RFIs. Manage Audit walkthroughs
• Must have Good functional knowledge of FINACLE in interfaces & Payments, Loans (Retail and Corporate), Limits/Collaterals, CASA/ TD & WMS modules.
• Analyze incidents in Finacle and Customer master systems and providing solution/work around for the issues independently.

 Requirements:

• 7-12 years of strong experience in the Banking industry with minimum 3+ years in Run-the-Bank (RTB) lead role with a proven track record of working in Finacle environment
• Experience in Finacle application in code development and fixes (Finacle scripting, product, JRXML, Reports, etc)
• SRE. Implement Site Reliability Engineering principles with regards to performance, reliability, monitoring, alerting and maintenance in Production environment. Pro-active Capacity monitoring & Observability of production Infrastructure, automated alerting, performance monitoring and reporting tools
• Automation of manual tasks in a CORE Banking ecosystem
• Build and maintain Production monitoring and automation solutions
• Build and implement Service improvements. Identify, measure and report performance trends – SLIs/ SLOs/ SLAs periodically and improve systems performance and associated performance KPIs
• Sound understanding of RDBMS / Unix / Cloud/ Large banking applications
• Strong team player, effective at communicating internationally and used to working closely with remote teams
• Good knowledge of infrastructure technologies used, with focus on AIX/Oracle/Java/ Openshift
• Solid understanding of BAU support, incident, problem management processes as well as escalation management across a diversified environment
• Understanding of Risk Management, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, IT Security Architecture, and IT Regulatory Compliance.
• Present facts and recommendations effectively in oral and written form
• Pro-active, independent, resourceful, and able to work in a team
• High attention to detail with focus on understanding the issues with finding solutions

Technology Requirements:

• Hands-on SRE/ Production support experience on Core Banking platforms – Finacle and Customer master systems
• Strong technical skills, e.g. scripting or programming experience, DBA/SA skills etc.
• Strong transformation and change management experience
• Software Configuration Mgmt., Quality Control Mgmt, Version Control Mgmt
• Operating System - AIX / Linux
• Cloud platforms. Openshift/ AWS
• Database – Oracle / Postgres/ EDB, In-memory database - Redis
• Application Servers – IBM WebSphere, JBoss
• Middleware technology – MQ, File transfers
• Eventing systems - Kafka
• Scheduling software - Tivoli