Position
- Managing Payments and Cash Management team Back office monitoring system for Payments and Reports and Data Hub to ensure that all the programs, projects, activities and tasks under the team’s responsibility are performed cost-effectively, on schedule, in conformance with the bank’s policies and standards and within agreed levels of quality.
- In charge of leading and managing the delivery of the design, development, testing, deployment and support activities necessary for the correct implementation of applications of payment and cash management business and other transversal topics including but not limited to, coordinating Infrastructure and release management, driving the practices of DevSecOps & Automation of all tech deliverables process.
- In-charge of people management including coaching the team members in knowledge management and career progressions.
Main responsibilities
- As the leader of team (of 10-15 team members comprising tech and domain experts) – Supervise and oversee them
- Plan, organize and prioritize the work assigned to the team in order to meet committed deadlines and other agreed milestones
- Identify, evaluate and report issues and risks to ensure corrective and/or preventive measures are timely taken
- Ensure team’s activities are in adherence to bank’s standards and norms.
- Ensure the processes applied are in adherence to the Section operational model.
- Actively participate/contribute to GIT Paris/ISAP governance for his/her domain.
- Continuously monitor the satisfaction level of the customers and put efforts to maintain and improve it
- Continuously monitor the quality of the deliveries and the quality of service.
- Evaluate staff knowledge & skills and recommend training.
- Review and conduct appraisals for the team members.
- Facilitate staff mobility and career development.
- Human capital Management - recruitment, career progression planning, Team Engagement and motivation, Coaching & Mentoring.
- Implement standard DevOps practices including test automation, efficient CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring as Code and End to End Observability kind of Software Factory best practices.
- Incorporate Continuous improvement process and culture on projects management & implementations, run and cost/budget.
- Supervises and follow-up Level 3 Support Activities when the Global Support Team (L1&L2) is in need of system expertise.
- Initiate and drive technical transformation / innovation projects to ensure that applications / systems will be able to cope with market and business demands.
- Work closely with domain and Enterprise Architects & Business users.
Organize and supervise all activities of the team
- Ensure proper ramp-up and ramp-down of the team as per the Bank requirement
- Manage budget and capacity allocation according to priorities communicated by functional manager
- Ensure the applications adhere to the modern standards
- Ensure applications are phased out from legacy tech and moved to new tech
- Ensure modern dev-sec-ops standards are implemented in all the project/application build lifecycle
Design, implement, test, deploy, support and maintain applications under your perimeter
- Ensure high-quality technical and functional design of the application stack.
- Ensure a smooth end-to-end implementation of the modules in charge using GIT best practices as well as overall GIT quality framework
- Ensure the proper UAT and production support of the modules delivered
- Identify, evaluate and report risks and issues to ensure corrective and/or preventive measures are timely taken
Coordinate with other development teams of all the program initiatives in order to ensure consistency across projects and modules of different programs the systems are engaged with.
- Coordinate with other development teams in order to optimise the global roadmap and associated constraints
- Ensure the good usage of chapters in order to smoothly circulate the information inside and outside the team.
- Coordinate with the integration team in order to align strictly the development with the product owner’s priorities.
Manage and improve team capabilities
- Ensure cohesion and commitment of the team on its assigned mission.
- Evaluate staff members’ skill/knowledge and recommend training plan, organize staff mobility and staff career development as needed
- Make sure team members observe and respect the Bank’s code of conduct and comply with Bank policies.
- Organize and perform coaching to the team members to ensure continuous improvement.
Implement and refine project management processes in order to ensure projects success
- Coordinate with program management in order to ensure an optimal usage of program methodology.
- Propose and implement local tooling/processes improvement when necessary.
Perform Team Manager duties
- Manage the team setup by identifying hiring needs and staffing with right profiles
Perform People management duties such as Career management, HR development and staff motivation.
Qualifications and Profile
Background:
- You are solving problems and building solutions
- You’re self-motivated and have demonstrated track record of driving Innovations in Project and Team management
- You’re comfortable leading tribe of engineers by example and a strong advocate of latest software engineering best practices
- You understand the importance of constructive feedback nurturing an inclusive engineering environment, championing engineering fundamentals and providing clarity and mentorship for team members to grow.
- You have good background of understanding the technology implementations in Banks / Financial Institutions.
- You have worked extensively in Payments and cash management solutions
- You have the abilities to take up the above outlined responsibilities and meet the expectations of the management team.
Skills:
- A minimum education of Bachelor’s degree in Computer science / Information systems.
- 12+ years of overall IT experience with 4 years of experience in delivery of enterprise scale critical systems projects
- Minimum 3 years of Team and People management practices.
- Excellent project delivery experience and knowledge about mentoring/guiding the teams involved in technology deliveries using Spring, Spring boot, any public cloud offering (AWS, GCP or Azure), Dockers, Kubernetes, React.Js or Angular.Js, Spark, Kafka, Janusgraph, HBase, HDFS
- Experience in Cash Management and Payment systems solutions
- Good knowledge in Payment area like interaction with Clearing, payment file format ISO20022, SEPA and SWIFT. Hands-on experience with such data mapping and testing
- Hands on experience on payment systems and exposure to Payments Hub, Clearing and Settlement, Automated clearing house programs and channels
- Extensive knowledge on various kinds of payment products such as TT, RTGS, LVP, Payroll, Cheque, DD, Cashier Order, Mass & Bulk payments
- Experience in engaging with senior stakeholders and win cases for the team.
- Practices in Agile delivery
- A technical functional mind-set with great attention to detail
- Good leadership skills
- Team player
- Good time-management skills
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
Next Step
Prepare your updated resume and expected package.
Simply click on 'Apply here' or email to [email protected] to drop your resume
All shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Prasant Sirohi
EA License Number: 91C2918
Registration Number: R22106307
