Designation: Applications Developer
Experience: 15+ Years
Key Responsibilities:
Application Development and Software Engineering
- Design, develop, customize, and enhance enterprise application software based on business and technical requirements.
- Perform detailed systems analysis and technical impact assessments for new projects, regulatory initiatives, and enhancement requests.
- Develop and maintain both online and batch-processing application modules supporting banking and financial transaction systems.
- Produce technical design specifications, program specifications, workflow diagrams, and application documentation.
- Implement software enhancements while ensuring compatibility with existing applications and infrastructure.
- Review and optimize application performance, reliability, and maintainability.
Systems Analysis and Solution Design
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, project managers, solution architects, and technical teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Conduct feasibility assessments and recommend appropriate application design approaches.
- Analyze complex application issues and provide sustainable technical solutions.
- Evaluate the impact of proposed system changes on interconnected applications and interfaces.
Application Integration and Data Interfacing
- Design, develop, and maintain interfaces between core banking systems, digital banking platforms, payment gateways, merchant systems, and third-party service providers.
- Perform data mapping, file layout analysis, message transformation, and integration testing activities.
- Support real-time and batch-based application integrations across multiple platforms.
Software Testing and Quality Assurance
- Develop test strategies, test scenarios, and test cases for application enhancements and project implementations.
- Conduct unit testing, system integration testing (SIT), regression testing, and support user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Investigate defects, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
- Ensure compliance with organizational software development lifecycle (SDLC) and change management procedures.
Production Support and Application Maintenance
- Provide Level 3 application support for critical production systems.
- Troubleshoot application incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate issue resolution activities.
- Support production releases, implementation activities, and post-deployment validation exercises.
- Participate in incident management, problem management, and change management processes.
- Develop recovery procedures and support disaster recovery and business continuity testing activities.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve application performance, operational efficiency, and system reliability.
- Recommend automation and process improvement initiatives.
- Contribute to technical knowledge sharing and application support documentation.
Requirements
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
Experience
- Minimum 15 years of experience in application development, systems analysis, and software support.
- Proven experience delivering application development projects within banking, financial services, credit card, payments, or digital banking environments.
- Experience supporting high-volume transaction processing applications in production environments.
- Experience participating in the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance.
Technical Skills
- COBOL / COBOL II development
- CICS online transaction processing
- MVS-JCL development and batch processing
- IBM Mainframe application development environments
- VSAM and QSAM file management
- TSO/ISPF
- File Aid
- Xpediter for COBOL and CICS
- Easytrieve
- Endevor or equivalent source code management tools
- Application integration and interface development
- Data mapping and file layout design
- Production support and incident management
Preferred Experience
- Credit card management systems.
- Digital banking application platforms.
- Loan origination or installment payment solutions.
- Payment acquiring and settlement systems.
- Merchant processing applications.
- Regulatory and compliance-related banking projects.
- Multi-country banking environments supporting regional operations.
