Vice President - Technology Program Manager - Core Banking

Job Purpose

• Responsible for managing the production support & Delivery for the most critical application of the bank. - Core banking.

• Developing and executing the support strategy of technology by achieving objectives and goals. Responsibilities include, guiding and mentoring the team and delivering unique service by providing high quality of support.

• The role delivers information technology solutions to fulfil business and functional requirements. Responsible for managing the SDLC of Change management in Core banking from business requirements to technical specifications, delivery and post implementation maintenance activities.

• Accountable for support and manage Core Banking system that can impact the bank with huge financial losses, reputational issues, regulator warnings/penalties and also can incur huge operational losses.

• Responsible to lead the Core Production Support function at Technology within the SLA, schedule, budget and scope parameters, including testing & overseeing the quality and compliance controls throughout the project life-cycle.

• The role delivers information technology solutions to fulfil business and functional Responsible to lead the Core Banking team, budget and scope parameters, including testing & overseeing the quality and compliance controls.

  Key Result Areas

• Manage a diversified team of professionals both offshore and outsourced who are responsible for application support pan bank.

• Effectively manage the Run the bank team and responsible for stability, monitoring and control, capacity management and incident management of the most critical application of the bank.

• Responsible for achieving agreed SLAs

• Conduct system analysis and provide support in response to user issues

• Provide technical expertise and recommendations in the assessment of issues and initiatives to support and enhance systems.

• Review and evaluate business requirements against existing and proposed systems, providing a recommended approach to providing a solution.

• Conduct system analysis and provide support in response to user issues

• Review and evaluate business requirements against existing and proposed systems, providing a recommended approach to providing a solution.

• Analysis of functional requirement change impact to existing systems.

• Manage solution documentation (System Requirement Specifications - SRS) describing deliverables to meet requirements.

• Ability to prepare & execute Technical Design Specifications & Program

• Helping the development team in explaining the Banking concept and to verify for the correct issues resolution/functionality developed by the team

• Ability to manage Test Cases and its test data for executing test cases

• Actively participate in issue resolution activities by guiding & assisting development team and building a good functional repo with development teams

• Understand the Business requirements from the Bank and effectively convert &

  prepare the Requirement Specifications & Functional specifications

• Implement customized FLEXCUBE solutions at Bank sites, conduct integration testing

• Specifications for enhancements, change request.

• Manage and maintain documentation describing custom configuration and parameterisation of 3rd party provided solutions.

• Provides technical guidance, information and instruction to other IT staff requiring broader subject knowledge.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Cross-border team management experience.

• Strong business orientation, domain knowledge to comprehend user requirements.

• Strong organizational, team building and leadership qualities.

• Engineer / Postgraduate with 15+ years of experience in FLEXCUBE 14.x hands on experience with product designing and implementation.

• Minimum 10 years in team management, project management, managing core implementation and support

• Knowledge of Banking domain is a must

• Having Extensive hands-on experience in core banking systems (Flexcube or other core banking solutions)

• Should have worked on Product Designing and implementation with respect to Business requirements

• Strong understanding of SDLC process

• Strong interpersonal communication skills

• Experience of Banking Operations in particular Core Banking, General Ledger, Loans,

• Payments, Trade Finance and other related Banking channels

• Excellent Project Management Experience