Senior Data Analyst

at  JOOBPER PTE LTD

My client is an established bank with a comprehensive global network and presence.
Currently, my client is seeking for an experienced Senior Data Analyst with at least 4-5 years working in Banking and finance and with strong experience in Finance GL reconciliation and Regulatory Reporting in IT Datawarehouse Support team.

KEY CRITERIA - QUALIFICATIONS

• Diploma/Bachelor/Master’s degree
• Minimum 5 years of experience documenting requirements, designing solutions, and coding or configuring data related platforms as part of technology department in a financial institution.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in providing level 3 IT operations support in a financial institution.
• Minimum 3 Experience writing and reviewing Functional specifications, technical design documents, interface documents
• Working knowledge of bank operations and products and with strong knowledge in Finance GL reconciliation and Regulatory reporting (MAS610, MAS645, MAS649, SDIC, etc )
• Have experience working on VERMEG products/solutions for MAS regulatory reporting.
• Regulatory & Procedural Expertise - Keep up to date and refreshed on required reading related to guiding how IT must be run in a regulated financial institution
• Experience in DWH schema design (on oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL DB platforms), ETL and Reporting platforms.
• Experience in working on AWS Cloud Platform
• Hands on skills on Linux /Unix OS
• Hands on and strong experience in any ETL(Python, Pentaho, etc ) and BI tool ( Tableau, MS Power BI). For ETL, preferably Python.
• Hands on experience in AWS Glue, Athena, Python, Pyspark.
• Must have good knowledge of SQL with Hands on ability to write SQL statements and stored procedures
• Shell scripting and Vba scripting to automate tasks.

Strategy, Planning, Mgmt. MIS & Regulatory Reporting

• Provide expert advice and support to technology management in the area of expertise.
• Contribute in the formulation a comprehensive Branch IT strategy covering IT policies and procedures, security, architecture, business solutions and operational functional requirements
• Keep abreast of developments and innovations in the FI IT landscape.

IT Operations

• Ensure data platforms running in production are healthy and functioning per expected.
• Ensure prompt and efficient provision of IT support based on assigned area of expertise (includes request from Data center operations team)
• Oversee contingency plans and ensure their adequacy.
• Maintain and ensure timely renewal of digital certificates and proper lodgement with IT security team.
• Ensure IT operations run in a manner consistent with high score from audit, risk, compliance assessments. The following to be operationalized as standard procedure against all IT asset components:
• Administrative Accounts
• Patching
• Hardening
• Logging and Monitoring
• Capacity Mgmt.
• EOL/EOS Upgrades
• Housekeeping
• Backups & Backup Platform.
• Work with system stakeholders to ensure proper classification of system criticality and ensure design and architecture can meet the assessed criticality needs:
• MAS 644 defined Critical system – Ensure DR setup is working and can achieve agreed RTO & RPO
• MAS 644 defined non-critical system – Ensure HA/DR per stakeholder requirement.
• Handle & Support Business Continuity Management related activity planning and execution.
• Review and Approve/Reject production change requests as part of Technology Change committee.
• Raise Change Activity Board Change Request as necessary.
• Cutover related planning and execution
• Take over operational ownership of BAU in terms of maintenance, support, and minor enhancement ownership of new systems and/or major enhancements delivered by the Projects Delivery and DevOps team.

Application and Systems Development / New Platform Acquisition

• Lead in the requirements gathering and documentation, design and where in-house the coding, test support and implementation of new systems or enhancements of existing systems:
• Analyse, design, document and develop technical solutions according to business requirements (or in case of off the shelf, co-ordinate with 3rd party vendor)
• Provide accurate, complete and up to date system documentation.
• Provide training to users to ensure correct usage and proper adoption upon rollout
• Oversee the QA of software implementation.
• Oversee the deployment and implementation of applications to run on AWS Cloud for existing systems based on end-user needs and business rationale.
• Assist team lead to write and table committee papers as required to get new systems and/or platforms, or major refreshes approved.
• Work together with Projects Delivery and DevOps team to support digital and cloud initiatives in terms of initial advisory and then follow-on necessary analysis and co-ordination/implementation related to integration requirements and enhancement required to existing data platforms to enable the digital initiative.
• Experience in supporting migration of workloads running on-premises to AWS Cloud or vice versa.