Hyperion Integration FDMEE Developer
Pune (Pune) IT development
Job description
About Barclays
Barclays is an international financial services provider engaged in personal banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking and wealth management with an extensive presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Barclays' purpose is to help people achieve their ambitions – in the right way.
With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs approximately 140,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.
At Barclays, we recruit based on merit and are committed to promoting diversity throughout our organisation.
About Operations & Technology
Operations & Technology work in partnership with the organisation, co-creating products and services that deliver an exceptional customer and client experience.
About Functions Technology
Group Finance Technology is Technology Partner to Barclays Finance providing a wide range of technology solutions and services across CFO areas and Finance functions. Our teams work with Finance colleagues to develop and deliver long term strategic IT solutions, supporting their business goals.
Overall purpose of role
The Hyperion Competency Centre (HCC) within the Barclays Group Finance Technology team is responsible for building and managing the Group Financial Reporting, Planning and forecasting and Cost Management applications that are built out of Hyperion. The main purpose of the role is to deliver automation and efficiencies in processes for a number of projects in the HCC. Primarily, supporting and delivering these efficiencies at application and infrastructure level. The engineer will focus on:
o data-integration between multiple applications
· automation of processes and procedures
Key Accountabilities
Selected Candidate will be able to:
o Deliver medium to complex batches changes, proof of concepts, Impact Assessments and System Integration Tests in collaboration with the Finance teams.
o Implement changes in collaboration with the rest of the technical team into the Hyperion EPM Environments based upon business requirements and technology steers as per project timelines
o Proactively suggests changes to keep the processes aligned to the Bank's and the Vendor's strategy
o Provides L3 support for batch execution during testing phases
o Work in cooperation with Oracle and multiple external vendors on the resolution of technical issues
o Prepares estimates and design documentation for change requests and extensions of the current solution
o Follow project plans to ensure timely delivery and update progress to appropriate standards effectively across all work-streams and ensure that dependencies are clearly understood and managed
o Provide timely status updates to Application leads
o Ensures a high quality Knowledge Transfer to the Run the bank teams
o Has a visible presence in the relevant industry Forums, projecting an image of excellence
o Liaises with internal and external support teams to drive prompt resolution of issues
o Follows the Change and Release Management Process, providing documentation supporting all steps in the implementations
o Delivers high quality implementation guides and documentation for new processes
o Stakeholder management and leadership.
Stakeholder Management and Leadership
o Must be able to demonstrate first class stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills, with strong and influential personal credibility
Decision-making and Problem Solving
o Act as a guide and architect to the Automation team and help them in the development of innovative technological solution for day to day problems.
o Take decisions pertaining to the time availability of for DevOps and provide inputs to sprint planning activity on projects accordingly
Risk and Control Objective
All Barclays colleagues have to ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise W ide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.
Person Specification
Essential
o Strong experience in converting requirements in design documents and developing automated processes
o Strong experience in general technical troubleshooting
o Sound knowledge of Hyperion Essbase scripting, batch automation
o Strong experience in batch automation using JavaScript, VBS, Ruby and Microsoft SQL programming
o Good knowledge and experience in batch scheduling using Tivoli Workload Scheduler
o Good knowledge and experience in file transfer mechanism like Connect Direct, SFTP
o Good knowledge of FDM to FDMEE migration and integration of FDMEE with Hyperion applications
o Solid experience of working in FDMEE, Jython scripts and handling Upgrades from FDM to FDMEE and build integration interfaces using FDMEE with Hyperion 11.1.2.3/v11.1.2.4
o Strong technological background: Windows 2003 SP2 / 2008 R2
o Strong track record of managing concurrent business and technical requirements
o Demonstrable record of creating high quality documentation
o Demonstrate proficiency in use of Version Control Systems (preferably git/stash)
o Experience in working in a geographically distributed team over multiple regions
Preferred
o Good knowledge in Webservice development
o Working knowledge of Java (JVMs, JAR files)
o Working knowledge of version control systems (preferably Git but others such as Mercurial, SVN, CVS, Perforce also acceptable)
· Ability to work within a multi-vendor set-up and combination of onshore and offshore teams
The Benefits: Our customers deserve the best. The same goes for our employees. That's why at Barclays you'll receive a range of benefits that include a competitive salary and all the tools, technology and support you need to succeed.
Our Culture: Everything we do is shaped by the five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. The values inform the foundations of our relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how we measure and reward the performance of our employees. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.
Dynamic working gives everyone at Barclays the opportunity to integrate professional and personal lives, if you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.
Barclays is an equal opportunity employer and are opposed to discrimination on any grounds. For more detailed information, please visit our dedicated Diversity and Inclusion site here .