Techno Functional Engineer, AVP

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 in the area of data sourcing, data collation, data transformation, data modelling, aggregation/calculation and eventually delivering an enterprise/scaleable reporting solution

Key responsibilities of this role include

• Responsible for leading activities which details the data sourcing to reporting requirements from Business users into system specific functional specifications.
• Active participation and/or contribution in the design of their solution components with business, with an innovative solution generation 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.
• Adoption to industry IT best practices, on utilizing best tools in data consolidation, data modelling, data transformation, metadata management (rules) and reporting (such as Python, Numpy, Pandas, Tableau, BusinessObjects, SQL/PLSQL, and other data management/reporting tools) leading to a scaleable, traceable, quality and timely delivery of an effective reporting solution
• Adoption to IT roadmap and plans and implement new technologies/solutions in alignment to the banks architecture blueprint, including devising of plans to transition from legacy to target state
• Managing end to end delivery of realizing the business objectives and outcome expected (from reporting delivery perspective)
• Actively look for opportunities to improve the design at the onset and looking at performance of components by applying sound design, and the learning from feedback and observation gathered
• Serves as a functional specialist and as the day-to-day leader of work efforts in this area within a data and reporting discipline

Your key responsibilities

• Uses and awareness of banking/financial industry initiatives to work with stakeholders to align with strategy and roadmap while supporting the development of market-driven, sustainable business, process and data/reporting architectures and/or solution
• 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 performance design for large volume data sets and business process solutions aligned to expected SLA of our users
• 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 local and group regulatory jurisdictions (such as BASEL, statistical regulatory reporting, MI reporting) in the past 6+ years across Financial, Risk and Transactional reporting.
• Experience of various best practiced methods in Data Analysis, Functional Analysis, Data Model, Data Principles in a banking or financial reporting subject
• Experience of working on any of the Local Regulatory Reporting requirements for Regions (around MAS, APRA, RBI, Basel/ECB) and/or Financial Reporting visualization
• Experience in data / reporting tools such Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects, and other BI tools
• Experience in data management tools such as Python (Pandas, Numpy), Informatica/Spark (optional), SQL, PLSQL, Oracle/Hive, and other databases
• Experience working with business requirements through data transformation and reporting application design
• Experience in a financial domain (capital markets, transaction banking, and wealth management) and/or related support functions.
• Experience owning 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, and/or Techno-functional discipline (Software development life cycle)
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office products.
• Experience in handling Banking products and/or Financials data in a regulatory or financial reporting setting or Industry, incl stakeholder needs, competitor and solution awareness within own area of expertise.

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

• Experience of working on Regulatory Reporting Vendor Packages such as Axiom, and recent data/reporting technologies, Looker, Spark/Spark SQL, TRINO, etc
• Experience in methods/practices of UX (user experience) for UI development
• Agile methodology delivery experience

Education/Certification

• Degree from an accredited college or university with a preference for Computer Science (or IT related),
• Business Analysis or Data 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