Tesco Bengaluru

Background:

This position will be responsible for managing and delivering stable SAS Application Platform for TESCO Bank across Cloud and In-premises environment.

Knowledge

• Sound knowledge on database, ETL, BI/MI, CICD & cloud computing (AWS in specific) concepts
• Good knowledge on BI Application Platform Management
• Knowledge on Clustering application across multiple servers
• Knowledge on platform automation using Ansible
• Knowledge on ITIL process 
• Knowledge on working in agile teams
• Hands-on experience in Linux with basic awareness on Shell scripting (optional)

Roles and Responsibility:

• End-To-End Enterprise Application platform support, Server Maintenance from application perspective - Monitoring and patching.
• Understand security mechanisms provided by the application and the data model behind it.
• Elaborate business requirements into design/technical solutions
• Ability to analyse project requirements and develop detailed specifications and design new BI reports keeping in view of performance, quality and schedule demands
• Provide technical inputs towards building the effort estimate and schedules.
• Ensure non-functional requirements are addressed with the design, drive design correctness and quality /technical issue resolution
• Design solutions that can be consumed in a self-service manner by both business and engineering teams
• Ability to standardize, harmonize, cleanse, prepare and use data for developing datasets/data marts for the BI reports and analytics
• Participate in Identifying, developing & automating service improvements & administrative tasks
• Produce Proof of Concept for proposed solution. Work on evaluating different technological solutions & conduct feasibility study thereof across programs (if necessary).
• Understand the impact of problem, minimize risk to service and strive for continuous improvement.
• Self-motivated & self-directed abilities to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment with "time-critical" deadlines
• Interact with all the stakeholders to evaluate & influence technology options
• Play a role in resolving technical issues/ challenges/ escalate appropriately.
• Initiate and drive root cause analysis across teams.
• Integrate system with Application Performance Management (APM) tools like Splunk, or Runscope
• Implement System Back-up & Restore mechanism
• Managing projects work in system and promotion of same to higher environment
• Monitoring & reporting Server performance and troubleshooting critical performance related issues.
• Ensure procedures and technical documentation are updated to reflect changes, using standard guidelines
• Devise technical frameworks/ guidelines/ design standards/ quality checklists
• Build awareness of industry trends and evaluate applicability to project
• Share knowledge and support colleagues.
• Interacting with Vendor (SAS Inc) support when required to fix the environment or user issues.
• Handling and tracking requests/tickets, which include preparing internal performance reports and ticket analysis.
• On-Call Support 24x7