Responsibilities
· End-to-end ownership (design, define and deliver) of the Core Banking platform release management.
· Run the monthly demand management forums with Project Directors, Delivery Leads, ScrumMasters and Delivery Guild
· Identify technical skills required for kick-off of projects, coordinate with DEV SET BAU Guild Leads for resourcing
· Liaise with EMT Project Support Team, BAU Team and SRE Team on all audit compliance issues e.g., Service Packs
· Support PMO Lead Function and Lead Support with setting up Kanban Boards, Confluence processes for Reporting
· Work with C2E IDR, ADR, RPCCB, CR process teams and approval stakeholders to support project delivery
· Interface with the Country and Product BAU Tribes and Squads to support transition from PRJ to BAU
· Perform the Scrum Master role (where required) and lead the EMT PRJ Support team in their sprint deliveries.
· Single point of contact between Core Banking platform delivery teams, CBG CES (external stakeholders) for Release
· Manage all activities end-to-end to deliver the project (from scoping to implementation) to agreed rameters.
· Setup Confluence pages to track readiness including runbook, validation checks and coordinate production readiness.
· Ensure the deliveries are adhered to standards and processes related to infra setup, application deployment.
· Collaborate with project team members from various domains to monitor, develop, execute project plans associated project content.
· Ability to manage multiple work-streams concurrently and effectively resolve issues or conflicts.
· Good communication skills, negotiation skills, and stakeholder management.
· Adhere to organizational guidelines and process during deliver.
· Actively monitor and report progress to all stakeholders in a timely manner by using a variety of formal communication channels.
· Deal with all project-related escalations and seek input and assistance from appropriate channels to resolve in a timely manner.
Technical Requirements
· Minimum 12 - 17 years of experience and out of which, minimum 5+ years of release management using JIRA in CORE Banking.
· Managed Finacle 10.x/11.x and multi-countries and OPEN systems production environment.
· Finacle Application environment servers run in combination of IBM AIX, VPC, OpenShift. We need the candidate to have good knowledge in various cloud technology to support the infrastructure for Optimization.
· Hands-on Experience in Finacle Application (Core Banking) Server Capacity Monitoring and Optimization.
· Good level of command over production Infra; performance monitoring and reporting tools.
· Good working experience in Elasticsearch, Logstash, Grafana/Kibana, AppDynamics etc.
· Ideal hands-on experience in Unix/Linux/Shell/Python scripting.
· Good Hands-on experience in PAAS (Platform as a Service) and not limited to AWS, Pivotal, OpenShift.
· Sound knowledge on CI/CD tools, flow mechanism other supporting tools with project implementation experience.
· Knowledge on API Message, Queue handling and Caching Techniques most likely on Kafka and Redis.
· Working Experience on any microservice platform mostly in Banking.
· Ideally Site Reliability Engineering principles regarding performance, reliability, monitoring, alerting in Production environment.
· Perform at the highest level of competencies like: Achieving Excellence People Management Solution Driven Relationship Innovative Purpose-Driven.
· Ability to work with stakeholders to stretch role in depth/width.
· Should be well-versed with latest Finacle and technology trends.
· Good experience in running automation and service improvements experience.
· Good experience on working with multiple teams of infra and Functional team.
