Techno Functional Engineer, AVP

Job Title: Techno Functional Engineer, AVP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

A Techno Functional Engineer is responsible for designing, developing and delivering end to end working product for the business users, based on a given broader business requirement, by applying techno functional expertise drawn from both technical and functional experience / knowledge so that to accomplish business goals efficiently and reliably.  

Key responsibilities of this role include

• Responsible for leading activities which details the complex requirements from Business users into system specific functional specifications.
• Active participation in the design of their solution components with business, with a solution mindset
• Investigating re-use, ensuring that solutions are fit for purpose, reliable, maintainable, and can be integrated successfully into the overall functional solution and environment with clear, robust and well tested deployments.
• Advising businesses on investing in new technologies/solutions in alignment to the bank’s architecture blueprint
• Managing end to end delivery of realizing the business benefit
• Actively look for opportunities to improve the availability and performance of components by applying the learning from monitoring and observation, automating towards zero touch, and championing a 'DevOps' mind-set
• Serves as a functional specialist and as the day-to-day leader of work efforts in this area within a regulatory reporting value stream(s)

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy,

• Best in class leave policy.
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Uses awareness of industry initiatives to work with stakeholders to align with strategy and roadmap while supporting the development of market-driven, sustainable business, process and data architectures.
• Supports the implementation of common architecture and strategies and applies Bank wide standards and best practices.
• Supports the implementation of optimum architectures of technology solutions and drives analysts, designers, and engineers in technology teams to design, build, test and deliver high quality software solutions to meet business needs.
• Acts as functional lead/expert for a domain, applications and technology and completes high complex functional / non-functional specification documentation and designs. 
• Completes and elaborates complex functional designs in accordance with the defined principles, blueprints, standards, patterns, etc.
• Designs and conceptualizes new complex business solution options with proof-of-concepts and articulates identified impacts and risks.
• Reviews testing requirements including test plans, test cases, test-data, and interface testing between different applications. Works with engineers to resolve complex functional issues arising from integration / user acceptance testing.
• Provides thought leadership in the development of new models/ techniques for delivering step change in business processes.
• Defines guiding principles for designing industrialised, high STP (straight-through processing) business process solutions.
• Acts as virtual supervisor for analysis and design work within a project/programme regionally.
• Reviews and provides feedback on functional solutions and performs quality assurance of project deliverables.
• Drives design challenges, implements key design and design building blocks, leverages design practices and insists on design patterns used by engineers.
• Translates and reviews logical data design at various stages of the data journey.
• Works with engineers, to priorities, trouble shoot and resolve reported bugs / issues / CRs (change requests) on applications.
• Drives data discovery, sourcing, modelling, and analytics to support the creation of data flows and models. This includes researching and profiling data sources in data categories of expertise.
• Plays an active and leading role in relevant Communities of Practice such as the Business Functional Analysis Community of Practice and other Design/Architecture related Communities of Practice.
• Undertaking peer reviews and reviewing solution designs and architectures, taking into consideration specific business, usability and functional constraints, requirements and dependencies.

Your skills and experience

• Fluent in English (written/verbal).
• 12+ experience in managing teams of complex & sizeable global IT change projects under varying project/programme environments (waterfall, scrum/agile) and tight timelines.
• Strong working Experience in interpreting multiple end to end APAC regulatory jurisdictions (such as MAS, FSA, BNM, BOK, etc.) in the past 6+ years across Financial, Risk and Transactional reporting.
• Experience working with business requirements through to application design.
• Experience in functrional analysis, data analytics or UX (user experience).
• Experience in a financial domain (capital markets, transaction banking, and wealth management) and/or related support functions.
• Experience owing programme backlogs, driving programme increments and release content via prioritised features and establishing feature acceptance criteria.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving experience and ability to independently identify issues, introduce new concepts, provide innovative insights/ solutions and oversee their delivery.
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong planning and highly organised with ability to prioritize key deliverables across several work streams.
• Excellent communication and documentation / presentation skills.
• Self-motivated and flexibility to work autonomously coupled with ability to work in virtual teams and matrix/global organisations including appreciation of different cultures during collaborating and sharing.
• Strong ability to influence and motivate other team members and stakeholders through strong dialogue, facilitation and persuasiveness.
• Strong leadership and ability to advance decisions and escalations.
• Profound knowledge of methods and tooling for the Business Functional Analysis Profession.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office products.
• Industry, stakeholder, competitor and solution awareness within own area of expertise.

Preferrable if you have experience on some of the below as well

• Experience of Data Taxonomy and Local Regulatory Reporting Data modelling,
• Experience of working on any of the Local Regulatory Reporting requirements for APAC Regions (around MAS, APRA, RBI)
• Experience of working on Regulatory Reporting Vendor Packages such as Axiom, etc.
• Agile methodology delivery experience

Education/Certification

• Degree from an accredited college or university with a preference for Computer Science (or IT related).
• Business Analysis certification (and/or relevant work experience).

Key Business Competencies: Proficiency Level (1 to 5)

• Business Strategy: P4 - Advanced
• Change Leadership: P4 - Advanced
• Communication: P3 - Experienced
• Industry Knowledge: P4 - Advanced
• Innovation: P3 - Experienced
• Managing Complexity: P4 - Advanced

Key Technical Competencies: Proficiency Level (1 to 5)

• Business Analysis: P5 - Expert
• Process Development and Management: P4 - Advanced
• Quality Management: P4 - Advanced

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.
• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.htm

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.