Senior Systems Analyst (Core Banking), Information Technology Group

We are seeking an experienced and motivated team lead for core banking application with a proven track record in the banking industry. In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end development, enhancement, and maintenance of mission-critical applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain Java-based enterprise and banking applications, ensuring high performance, security, and scalability.
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, product owners, and cross-functional IT teams to gather, analyze, and translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications.
• Participate actively in the system development lifecycle (SDLC), including system analysis, design, development, code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Plan, coordinate, and manage system deployments, upgrades, patches, and releases, ensuring minimal downtime and seamless application operations.
• Monitor application performance and troubleshoot, analyze, and resolve production issues, providing timely root-cause analysis and preventive solutions.
• Contribute to system architecture design and technical decision-making, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, security policies, and best practices.
• Maintain technical documentation, system specifications, and operational procedures to support long-term maintainability.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives by recommending enhancements to system functionality, performance, and reliability.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of hands‑on professional experience in Java development, preferably within the banking or financial services industry.
• Proven experience working on mission‑critical enterprise applications with high availability and robust security requirements.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to work under pressure in production environments.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging both technical teams and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of software development best practices, including object‑oriented design, testing methodologies, and code quality standards.
• Experience or domain knowledge in Core banking platforms, or general banking systems is a strong advantage.

Strong hands‑on experience in:

• RESTful API and Microservices
• Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL
• WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, or equivalent application servers
• MQ, Kafka, or enterprise messaging platforms
• Git, Jenkins, DevOps tools

Experience in:

• API integration
• Cloud‑ready architecture
• Container technologies (Docker/Kubernetes) is an advantage