Job Description:

About Us

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.  Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Global Business Services

Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations.

Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence, and innovation.

In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services.

Process Overview

Global markets technology offers technology services and products for sales and trading services to around 8,000 institutional clients across fixed-income, credit, currency, commodity and equity businesses. Global Markets Technology also includes middle office operations tech, engineering services, data and reference data platforms and regulatory reporting systems.

End of Life Horizontal was carved out in Global Markets Technology a few years back to accelerate NPT and to have a standardized cost effective way of EOL remediation. Sybase Exit is a program initiated to reduce compliance and operational risk by migrating off Sybase to strategic platforms or cloud-native technologies leveraging End of Life operating model.

 Job Description*

The Group POD Lead is expected to effectively manage all remediation vendor PODs and ensure delivery as per plan. He is expected to direct and guide POD leads (technical / organizational) and he is the primary overall engagement point for AIT Owners / AIT PM.

He is expected to be conversant with large scale tech migrations, preferably database migrations. Should have practical knowledge of Sybase, SQL Server, Oracle – should be good in planning and organizational skills. He should be able to put together the plan for migration and course correct as needed. He should also be knowledgeable about testing for large scale database migrations.

Responsibilities*

POD Group Lead

Reports to

GBS Horizontal Technical LeadProgram Manager for program governance

Overall objective of role

To effectively manage all PODs and ensure delivery as per planDirect and guide POD leads (technical / organisational)Primary overall engagement point for AIT Owners / AIT PM

Resource management

Identifies resource requirements to meet AIT Owner demand (skills, volume, availability) – provides this to Technical Lead to manage recruitmentManages resource allocation across all PODs with POD leads to ensure PODs are appropriately resourced to meet business demandsSupport recruitment process (CV review, interviews etc.)Manages resource onboarding into teams and ensures team members are productive ASAP working with POD Lead

Reporting and Governance

Define and create reporting templates as requiredCollate daily and weekly reporting from POD leadsCollate weekly reporting from App PM (AIT Reports)Provides weekly POD Group report to Program ManagerUpdates RAID log on a regular basis as required by Program ManagerRun regular POD lead meetings to share key management messages and gather status from POD leadsEscalate any issues to Program Manager and Technical Leads as appropriate

App owner engagement

Primary interface to AIT teamsWork with AIT PM to maintain an accurate project plan for AIT delivery – AIT PM to ownIdentify and collate AIT requirements for PODs including specific technical skillsSupport onboarding of AIT Team and alignment to PODsAttend AIT meetings as required to make sure POD is meeting business requirementsTechnical escalation / decision point referencing Technical Lead as appropriateEnsure that the AIT team are supported in the migration with appropriate POD resources

Technical

Responsible for owning and maintaining an overall tracker of all issues across all PODs to facilitate knowledge sharing and lessons learnedDeliver alignment of solutions and standardisation across all AITsProvide expert input to guide and develop the migration strategy for each AITAct as escalation and decision point for technical decisions with PODsEnsure alignment of all key technical aspects with regional and global Technical LeadsSupports creation of tooling, scripts and other resources as neededEnsures knowledge transfer between teams

CTI / APS&E Engagement

Maintains alignment of status and planning with CTI and APS&E

Requirements:

Education*

BE/BTECH/MCA/ME/MTECH

Certifications If Any

Microsoft SQL

Experience Range*

18+ years

Foundational Skills:

Candidate should have knowledge in Sybase / SQL Server / Oracle technology At least 18+ years relevant experienceHands on application migrationShould have exp in large scale transformation Exp in Design development architecture Should have exp. working with multiple stake holdersStrong Communication skillsExperience in SQL Server Troubleshooting, Performance Tuning and Query OptimizationExperience in running large scale tech migrations and transformationsExperience in database creation, database restores and database maintenance tasksStrong knowledge on database sizing, design, optimizationKnowledge on application connectivity to database and performance considerationsShould know how to performance test for database

Desired Skills:

Interpersonal sensitivity and customer responsiveness with good spoken and written communication skills.

Work Timings 08:30am to 05:30pm

Job Location* Hyderabad/Chennai/Mumbai