Senior Engineer - GBS IND

Job Description:

About Us

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.  Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Global Business Services

Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations.

Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence, and innovation.

In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services.

Process Overview*

Global markets technology offers technology services and products for sales and trading services to around 8,000 institutional clients across fixed-income, credit, currency, commodity and equity businesses. Global Markets Technology also includes middle office operations tech, engineering services, data and reference data platforms and regulatory reporting systems.

End of Life Horizontal was carved out in Global Markets Technology a few years back to accelerate NPT and to have a standardized cost effective way of EOL remediation. Sybase Exit is a program initiated to reduce compliance and operational risk by migrating off Sybase to strategic platforms or cloud-native technologies leveraging End of Life operating model.

 Job Description*

The POD Lead is expected to effectively manage all remediation for a specific vendor POD catering to one of the CIOs and ensure delivery as per plan. He is expected to direct and guide POD team mates on technical matters.  and he is the primary overall engagement point for Group POD Lead / AIT Owners / AIT PM.

He is expected to be conversant with large scale tech migrations, preferably database migrations. Should have practical knowledge of Sybase, SQL Server, Oracle – should be good in planning and organizational skills. He should be able to put together the plan for migration and course correct as needed. He should also be knowledgeable about testing for large scale database migrations.

Responsibilities*

Role POD lead

Reports to

• POD Group Lead

Overall objective of role

• Manage assigned POD and ensures delivery as per plan
• Directs and guides POD team members
• Technical day to day engagement point for AIT Owners / AIT PM for allocated AITs

Resource management

• Supports identification of resource requirements to meet AIT Owner demand (skills, volume, availability) – provides this to POD Group Lead
• Manages resources within POD to ensure resources are utilised effectively to meet business demands
• Supports recruitment process (CV review, interviews etc.)

Reporting and Governance

• Supports definition and creation of reporting templates as required
• Produces and provides daily and weekly reporting to POD Group Lead
• Supports updates to RAID log on a regular basis as required
• Run regular POD meetings to organise the team and share key management messages
• Escalates any issues to POD Group Lead

App owner engagement

• Interfaces to AIT teams for day to day activities
• Works with AIT PM to deliver agreed outputs as per AIT PM plan
• Supports onboarding of AIT Team members
• Attends AIT meetings as required to make sure POD is meeting business requirements

Technical

• Maintains tracker with all technical issues to facilitate knowledge sharing and lessons learned
• Provides expert input to guide and develop the migration strategy for each AIT
• Escalates technical decisions to POD Group Lead

CTI / APS&E Engagement

• Supports POD lead to maintain alignment of status and planning with CTI and APS&E

Requirements*

Education

• BE/BTECH/MCA/ME/MTECH

Certifications If Any

• Microsoft SQL

Experience Range*

• 10-12+ years

Foundational Skills:

• Candidate should have knowledge in Sybase / SQL Server / Oracle technology 
• At least 10+ years relevant experience
• Experience in SQL Server Troubleshooting, Performance Tuning and Query Optimization
• Experience in running large scale tech migrations and transformations
• Experience in database creation, database restores and database maintenance tasks
• Strong knowledge on database sizing, design, optimization
• Knowledge on application connectivity to database and performance considerations
• Should know how to performance test for database

Desired Skills:

• Interpersonal sensitivity and customer responsiveness with good spoken and written communication skills.

Work Timings08:30am to 05:30pm

Job Location: Hyderabad / Chennai / Mumbai