AVP - Project - FCSS

Summary:

• Perform requirement analysis, capture business requirements, understanding technical and functional specifications in detail.
• Should act to bridge the gap between IT, development team and business teams
• The candidate will be responsible for Review and analysis of system specifications of Foreign Currency Settlement System.
• Continuously assess existing product, propose areas of improvement such as in technical design, security updates, functional design, conduct competitive analysis of similar products and segments.
• Work with support team members across different teams and IT vendors.
• Work with functional and technical teams to finalize project scope, software development design and workflow design.
• Integrate the updated specifications into the proposed systems architecture and ensure compatibility of systems and software designs.
• Should be able to guide the team members and resolve issues on a proactive basis
• Provide periodic updates, executive reporting on project status, High Level Design (HLD), Low Level Design (LLD), etc.
• Review development and testing deliverables to ensure the completeness of the requirements including implementation of the same.
• Monitor lifecycle of the project and evaluate the stakeholders' reviews and work on requirements.
• Ability to review assigned business processes from end-to-end to identify and address operational, financial and technological risks.
• Assist technical team to identify all the limitations and challenges, resolve issues, enable the system for smooth workflow.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Good written and verbal communication skills are must for this position.
• Passionate to learn new technologies / tools as required.
• Ability to manage the stakeholder relationships and expectations.
• Manage effective stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities:

• Should act to bridge the gap between IT, development and business teams.
• Should be responsible for engaging with business lead and other stakeholders for consolidating functional requirements and document processes.
• Should be able to convey the functional requirements to stakeholders, helping them to determine the technical requirements for the work and preparation of Low-level design document.
• Should be responsible for tracking, managing, and reporting on the progress of the requirements.
• Recording of detailed functional requirements provided by business leaders.
• Documenting process flows including risk assessment and mitigation plan.
• Translating functional requirements into technical requirements. Able to understand the development requirements and effort involved.
• Tracking the progress of the project requirements.
• Work with program managers, product owners, and other team members in providing clarity of requirements and how it relates to the business objectives.
• Obtain a strong functional understanding of business processes and systems.
• Validation and verification of solution and confirmation.
• Ability to do independently conduct R & D on various payment system designs and options.
• Efficiently communicate to all stakeholders to manage expectations of project in a time bounded fashion.
• Ability to constantly ensure necessary risk assessments, monitor proactively addressed all risks in a timely fashion. Provide proper documentation of risks for specific SOW.
• Ability to analyze data, prepare good quality presentations and high impact reports for Top Management and various committees.
• Ownership of technical and non-technical issues and co-ordination with Cross functional teams for resolving issues.
• Involve in root cause and impact analysis.
• To ensure applications/software environments are fully maintained with appropriately supported updates, patches and/or service packs in line with system maintenance policies

Education:

BE./ B.Tech/M.C.A/M.Sc (Computer Science)

Experience:

• Minimum of 12+ Years experience.
• Relevant experience of 10+ years in Business requirement mapping, quality analysis and software development lifecycle. - Mandatory
• Experience in working in a fast paced, high expectation 24x365 environment.
• Experience in banking domain with specific work experience in Payment Systems - Mandatory.
• Candidate should have hands on work experience in cross border payment systems and settlement systems. Experience of working on ISO20022 is a must.
• Knowledge on banking domain is mandatory.
• It is desirable that the candidate have experience on software applications like IBM MQ, Oracle DB, Basic Java, Apache Tomcat, Windows, any one of the UNIX environments (AIX/RHEL), Basics of Network concepts and Basics of PKI framework is desirable.
• Experience in MS Project, Strong MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio skills
  

Certifications:

• ISO Certification
• Project Management

Knowledge:

• Work Experience in Cross border payment and settlement systems - Mandatory
• Knowledge on API and Microservices, various communication protocol, middleware technologies - Desirable
• PMP certification added advantage
• Ability to diagnose and resolve basic technical issues
• Ability to learn new technologies
• Understanding and Executing of the SQL Statements and Basics of Java - Mandatory
• Candidate should have the good understanding of databases.
• Payments Domain Knowledge for domestic and international market - Mandatory
• Understanding of the regulatory and competitive impacts on Payments.
• Ability to work independently.
• Strong time management and organization skills.
• Candidate should possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge in Banking domain- Mandatory.
• Good communication skills, email etiquettes, with ability to work in shifts

Technical Skills:

Primary Skills:
Knowledge of ISO 20022 message formats relating to payments domain - Mandatory
PL SQL, Oracle
JSP, HTML, Java Scrip,
Core Java & J2EE
API, any IDE, Restful services

Secondary Skills:
Understanding of IBM MQ, Unix Scripts, Advance Java, Open source technologies2, Angular JS,
Web services