Job Description

  • Responsible for the stability, performance, and reliability of our digital banking core. Ensure “zero-downtime” operations by leading rapid incident response, performing deep-dive root cause analysis (RCA), and collaborating closely with the Finacle Core team to resolve complex integration bottlenecks.
  • Finacle Support Liaison: Serve as the primary technical point of escalation for all integration issues involving Finacle and coordinate with the Core Banking team to troubleshoot data discrepancies, connectivity drops, and API failures.
  • Incident Command: Ensure clear communication with stakeholders Problem Management: Ensure the “blameless” RCA process to identify systemic issues and prevent recurring outages in the integration layer.
  • Recurring Incident Rate: Reduce the volume of repeat incidents by 30% through effective Problem Management and permanent bug fixes.
  • Monitoring Coverage: Ensure 100% of production microservices have automated health checks and p99 latency alerts.
  • Environment Health: Monitor the stability of OpenShift and other servers, ensuring the optimal performance of the middleware services running within them.
  • Proactive Monitoring: Drive the strategy for advanced alerting and logging (using Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or Dynatrace). Ensure that support teams are alerted to anomalies before they impact end-users.
  • Patch & Release Support: Oversee the safe deployment of hotfixes and platform updates, ensuring that automated rollbacks are in place for failed changes.
  • Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR): Achieve an average MTTR of < 45 minutes for critical (P1) integration incidents.
  • SLA Compliance: Maintain 99.99% uptime for critical integration gateways connecting to Finacle.
  • First-Touch Resolution: Increase the percentage of incidents resolved by the Platform Support team without escalating to the Engineering/Development squads.

Qualifications

  • BSc IT, Computer Sciences or related field.
  • Relevant professional certification such as ITIL Foundation, Sun Certified Java Developer (SCJP), Oracle Certified Associate (OCA), Microsoft Certified Professional and Developer (MCP, MCSD) can be an added advantage.

Experience:

  • 3-4years deep operational understanding of Finacle Core Banking (e.g., troubleshooting Finacle Integrator, batch job failures, or ISO8583/REST messaging).
  • Expert-level ability to read and debug Java code. Ability to navigate and troubleshoot Java platform utilities is a significant plus. Strong experience supporting containerized workloads in OpenShift, including log analysis, pod debugging, and resource scaling.
  • Experience with Terraform/Ansible for environment automation and troubleshooting and Kafka/RabbitMQ for message-queue monitoring. Medium proficiency in Oracle PL/SQL for data investigation and performance tuning within the Finacle database environment.

Additional Information:
Behavioural Competencies:

  • Adopting Practical Approaches
  • Articulating Information
  • Checking Things
  • Documenting Facts
  • Embracing Change
  • Following Procedures
  • Interpreting Data
  • Producing Output

Technical Competencies:

  • Application Support
  • Business Analysis Environments and Perspectives
  • Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Database Administration
  • Project Management (Project Mgmt)
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Testing (unit, regression, integration).

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Closes Friday 30 October · 7 days left

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