Group Leader, Cards

Job Functions:

Skill:

·       Ensure all team members are following the control framework for software development lifecycle. Suggest improvement required to make the process efficient and effective.

·       Understand the roadmap of changes and schedule the changes. Use tools like Azure to schedule backlogs in sprints and manage effectively. Manage backlogs effectively

·       Manage Technology risk effectively with in the Switch and ATM effectively

·       Manage Vendor effectively to maximize the output, benefit with latest technology advancement from the Vendor. Run the Vendor governance effectively

·       Evaluate the team and provide feedback periodically to the team to build high performance team

·       Participate in business requirement discussions and identify any gaps together with high-level proposals for their resolution, workarounds or changes in processes.

·       Review business requirement document, workflows and functional specifications

·       Analyse business requirements, liaise with project team and produce functional specification document for addressing the requirements.

·       Ensure any solutions proposed are realistic and within the agreed scope of the project

·       Provide the estimation of the new projects / enhancements

·       Integrate and deploy new systems and products to ensure business sustainability and profitability

·       Participate in solution design with development to ensure the requirements are addressed.

·       Ensure requirement traceability to facilitate tracking of requirements coverage

·       Demonstrate strong knowledge in card related applications, components and surrounding applications

·       Demonstrate hands-on operational experience in applications, platforms, modules and components supporting issuing and acquiring related business.

·       Determine opportunities to redesign business processes to achieve better business results

·       Improve and simply processes and functionality relating to issuing and acquiring and workflows across products and technology architecture using existing capabilities of application

·       Ability to prepare accurate and detailed requirement specifications documents, user interface guides, and functional specification documents as well as getting the sign-off from the appropriate client.

·       Demonstrates an extensive knowledge of different schemes and regulations in the stated and ability to work with the market / regulators for compliance

·       Analyze the business requirements and translate it to technical and functional specification.

·       Lead on requirement gathering workshops with different stakeholders

·       Ensure the business/operational objectives of the new business requirements are well defined via perform methodical business analysis

·       Follow the software development lifecycle from inception throughout design, engineering, testing and deployment. Serving as a liaison between various cross-functional teams that influence card-based applications and modules

·       Work with internal and vendor team to define accurate requirement and solutions

·       Validate business requirements to align with business/operations needs as well as IT architecture and security standards

·       Facilitate non-functional and Integration requirements discussions and requirement definitions

·       Manage requirement traceability matrix to ensure the delivery coverage and quality

·       Align with testing squad for testing activities, test plan, scope and approach and review of test scenarios, test cases, test data, triage and manage defect, validate test result

·       Assist users in planning/executing UAT, analyzing defects, and defining defects priority for fix delivery by development team

·       Prepare and review application training materials, conduct training sessions to bank users

·       Support production cutover and post-live support activities

·       Track and report progress and issues to project manager, identify potential risks

·       Proactively communicate and collaborate between entities (i.e. internal users, technology team and application vendors) to analyse information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following as needed: Functional requirements, Business Requirements Document, Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs.

·       Ensure vendor clarity on the points raised during the design, implementation and UAT.

·       Perform as the liaison between the technology units, technology teams, support teams and/or application vendors.

·       Maintain an overview of the infrastructure and users to constantly reassess the environment and rationalize them.

·       Ensure uniform and cohesive monitoring applied across the relevant infrastructures.

·       Assist the unit head, project manager and PMO in implementation, progress reports, plans, scoping and vendor management.

·       Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.

·       Business oriented person who can provide and add value to service delivery lifecycle.

·       Strong time management and organizational skills

·       Detail oriented and ability to multi-task under tight timelines

Requirements:

·       Bachelors Degree

·       15+ years in experience in similar job on Switch, and ATM

·       Wide understanding in systems used in acquiring and issuing domain, different settlement schemes and related application suite

·       Experience with development and maintenance of applications with IST, Fraud Navigator, Fiserv Vision+, SQL, VISA, MasterCard, EMV and 3DSecure.

·       Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with issuing & acquiring processes, schemes, certifications and regulations.

·       Experience in hosting Hybrid solution on premise/cloud and different hosting models.

·       Understanding of CI/CD pipeline

·       Strong understanding of Secure Coding Standards and PCI-DSS