Support Engineer/Sre - Core Banking

Production Support (50%):

Work closely with stakeholders to understand the wealth management applications, business process, challenges, and limitations to manage the day-to-day operations and address the issue by collaborating with development leads

To provide 2nd & 3rd level of Core Banking application support and work with L1/L2/L3 Support analysts from other system platforms and/or IT operations to support Core Banking applications

Manage production incidents, ensure appropriate ownership and where necessary, solution and rollout interim/long term fixes or workaround to temporary mitigate or prevent a re-occurrence of the issue.

Ensure coordination of department across line teams to manage production incidents, regardless it is major or minor in nature.

Provide issue/incident related guidance, assistance, and coordination amongst inter and intra department teams and follow up on kind ensures resolution.

Lead analysis of identified issues or problems which may require changes to procedures, standards, or systems. Ensure issues or problems are responded to, resolved, redirected, or escalated to next support levels.

Provide day-to-day support to clients to ensure customer expectations are met and if not, exceeded.

Provide point of escalation for minor / major incidents raised post after business hours

Accountable for the quality, correctness, robustness, and performance of the delivered solutions to production.

Provide on-call/on-site support on a rota basis and afterhours/weekend support as needed, covering application support and application change deployment

Project delivery (50%):

Drive DevOps and SRE culture/practices within the team

Contribute to functional and technical specifications for outstanding system bugs or require enhancements. Play key role in prioritization of changes and tracking the delivery

Work with engineering/platform team to ensure adequate system design so that technology operations risks can be minimized, and that application data is appropriately structured, controlled and utilized within the business

Review and enhance the existing monitoring framework for predictive monitoring and analytics

Create framework to track application performance metrics and identify leading indicators for the production reliability & stability

Partner with Risk & Control team to minimize/eliminate operational risks

5+ years of working experience

Knowledge on any of the core banking system in wealth management is required

Managing application support teams and work closely with stakeholders to understand the wealth management applications, business process, challenges, and limitations to manage the day-to-day operations

Technically competent to lead the SRE/Support teams to handle the production major incidents.

Experience in Production tools development and integration is required.

Ability collaborates with teams, onsite and offshore, in delivering the solution

Good problem-solving skills

Good presentation skills (in a meeting room and in remote meeting place)

Fully comply with bank's internal policy and control standards.

Experience in managing offshore team's deliverables

Good communication skills & management reporting

Vendor co-ordination (managing the vendor contracts and work closely with them in delivering the projects)

SDLC knowledge

Knowledge in T24 higher release (R21 or above) and related technologies are preferred

Experience in JAVA development, spring boot & micro services are preferred.

Experience in Python scripting or Scala programming would be preferred

Fair knowledge on the private banking business process and functions will be an advantage