Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer (SAS/SAS Viya/Unix) – AVP

Job Title: Senior Engineer (SAS/SAS Viya/Unix) – AVP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• ITAO is the custodian of the application and is responsible to apply and enable during Life-Cycle of the application the IT policies and procedures with specific consideration to IT management and Information Security. The ITAO ensures a clear separation of the responsibility within the project, aimed at achieving a safe and secure running of the application and compliance to regulations, policies and standards. ITAO is responsible for application documentation, application infrastructure reliability and compliance, and is usually the IT SPOC for audit initiatives.

What we'll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy,

• Best in class leave policy.
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• You are involved in the whole Software Development Lifecycle starting from analyzing requirements, developing, deploying and testing software as well as maintaining & continuously improving it.
• Your primary focus will be on software design, development and unit-testing activities including peer code reviews.
• You provide high-quality solutions that meet functional as well as non-functional requirements.
• You actively participate and contribute into the sprint activities and ceremonies e.g. daily stand-up, Sprint planning, retrospectives, refinements etc.
• You collaborate with other team members to achieve the sprint objectives.

Candidate should aware and good knowledge on Enterprise IT governance, Security & Governance, Information content publishing, Knowledge management, Business risk management, Continuity management, Data management, Change and Transformation.

Delivery and operation

Availability management:

• Contributes to the availability management process and its operation and performs defined availability management tasks. Analyses service and component availability, reliability, maintainability and serviceability. Ensures that services and components meet and continue to meet all of their agreed performance targets and service levels. Implements arrangements for disaster recovery and documents recovery procedures. Conducts testing of recovery procedures.
• Service acceptance: Engages with project management to confirm that products developed meet the service acceptance criteria and are to the required standard. Feeds into change management processes.

Configuration management:

• Applies tools, techniques and processes to track, log and correct information related to configuration items. Verifies and approves changes ensuring protection of assets and components from unauthorised change, diversion and inappropriate use. Ensures that users comply with identification standards for object types, environments, processes, lifecycles, documentation, versions, formats, baselines, releases and templates.
• Performs audits to check the accuracy of information and undertakes any necessary corrective action under direction.

Asset management:

• Applies tools, techniques and processes to create and maintain an accurate asset register. Produces reports and analysis to support asset management activities and aid decision making.

Change management:

• Develops implementation plans for complex requests for change. Evaluates risks to the integrity of service environment inherent in proposed implementations (including availability, performance, security and compliance of the business services impacted).
• Seeks authority for those activities, reviews the effectiveness of change implementation, and suggests improvement to organisational procedures governing change management. Leads the assessment, analysis, development, documentation and implementation of changes based on requests for change.

Security administration:

• Investigates minor security breaches in accordance with established procedures. Assists users in defining their access rights and privileges. Performs non-standard security administration tasks and resolves security administration issues.

Application support:

• Drafts and maintains procedures and documentation for applications support. Manages application enhancements to improve business performance. Advises on application security, licensing, upgrades, backups, and disaster recovery needs. Ensures that all requests for support are dealt with according to set standards and procedures.

Problem management:

• Ensures that appropriate action is taken to anticipate, investigate and resolve problems in systems and services. Ensures that such problems are fully documented within the relevant reporting system(s). Enables development of problem solutions. Coordinates the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures. Analyses patterns and trends.
• To support key role holders such as ITAOs and ISOs to develop a secure environment by evaluating the IT Security requirements as early as possible in the system development life cycle to select the applicable information security controls for implementation. To guide ITAOs on the implementation of compensating controls in case of deviations from the applicable information security controls.
• To approve the access control and user authorization approach of the assigned IT Assets. To execute and document periodical recertification of Access Rights in compliance with the DB Group Identity and Access Processes.

Incident management:

• Ensures that incidents are handled according to agreed procedures. Investigates escalated incidents to responsible service owners and seeks resolution. Facilitates recovery, following resolution of incidents. Ensures that resolved incidents are properly documented and closed.
• Analyses causes of incidents, and informs service owners in order to minimise probability of recurrence, and contribute to service improvement. Analyses metrics and reports on performance of incident management process.

Your skills and experience

• At least 10 years' experience in as a SAS, SAS Viya.
• Sound understanding of Production Management processes and controls in large organizations.
• Excellent problem solving skills in a distributed, multi-technology ecosystem
• Strong Experience in Base SAS, Advance SAS, Macros, SAS Enterprise Gide, SAS SMC,SAS Viya on UNIX Platform.
• Strong Skill in Advance Data Step programming statement to solve complex problems
• Strong Skill in writing and debugging SAS SQL/Proc SQL code.
• Strong Skill in writing and using SAS Macros.
• Hands on experience with SAS/Access using Oracle
• Strong Scripting experience in Shell.
• Strong Knowledge of Oracle Management, SQL scripts, performance mgmt.
• Strong understanding of Unix, Linux and Windows.
• Understanding of Agile and Safe methodologies.

How we'll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.
• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.

About us and our teams

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Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.