Latest Jobs in National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) August / September 2020
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One of the largest banks of the country is inviting applications against the following positions from professionals with proven track record and capacity to perform as a catalyst for transformation in a challenging environment in the area of Technology & Digitalization.
The individuals who fulfill the below-mentioned basic eligibility criteria may apply for the following positions:
| Position/Job Title | Support Analyst — MIS |
| Reporting to | • Wing Head — Core Banking Application Operations / Department Head – MIS Development& Support |
| Academic / Professional Qualification | • Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology (IT) or related field from HEC recognized University / Institute or equivalent. |
| Experience | • Minimum 3 years’ in relevant field and with proven experience of MIS application operations and support. |
| Other Skills / Expertise/ Knowledge Required: |
Must have following abilities: • Work within a cohesive, high-performing, close-knit team. • Take advantage of training opportunities and take initiative to learn. grow, succeed, and be challenged |
| Outline of Main Duties / Responsibilities | • To prepare data/report from different applications like Core Banking / Allied Applications Audit/Internal & External Audits, NAB, FIA and other Agencies • To prepare data for Branches/Regions/Groups • To prepare daily transactional data for MIS • To prepare Loan/Deposit/Customer Information data for MIS • To prepare data of Top Depositors (Core Banking) • To execute Data extraction for SAP GL balancing and data cleansing ° To execute Bulk Accounts Opening processing and MIS generation • To execute SAP Vs Core Banking — GL Comparison • To process queries development and extraction of data to be used in FCCM/AML /KYC Solution and ETL Module. • To develop & synchronize Branch users’ activity logs from Branch/VDI Servers to centralized database server at HO for audit trails. • Other duties as assigned by Department Head from time to time. |
| Position/Job Title | Enterprise Architecture Lead |
| Reporting to | • Divisional Head — I.T. Strategy & Governance |
| Academic / Professional Qualification | • Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology (IT). Computer Science or relevant field from HEC recognized University / Institute or equivalent. |
| Experience | • Minimum 5 years’ Enterprise Architecture (EA) experience within Banking or Financial Services. |
| Other Skills / Expertise/ Knowledge Required: |
Must have following expertise: • Establishing, growing and fortifying an Enterprise Architecture practice within an evolving IT environment in a large organization. • Providing strategic technology direction and architecture vision encompassing an enterprise view across a large portfolio of capabilities. • Leading the process of planning and designing IT/IS capabilities of an enterprise in order to meet desired organizational objectives. • Developing an architectural vision with a compelling narrative that is supported and aligned with business and technology strategy. • Identify and design technology solutions within an architectural framework that fulfill business requirements and conform to security. supportability, reliability, and performance standards. • Evaluating new technology paradigms, solutions. and vendor products, conducting technical risk assessments. and summarizing recommendations. • Formulating architecture strategies and long-term technology roadmaps in order to guide investment decisions and identifying standard technologies. • Creating IT architecture models to reflect the organization’s strategies and goals. • Influencing senior leaders and all levels of business and IT on all areas of the architecture, including policies, standards, strategies, and governance. • Translating company business strategy into concrete solutions, designing and formulating a supporting IT systems architecture blueprint. |
| Outline of Main Duties / Responsibilities | • To quantify and deliver benefits of EA resulting from more efficient business operation with lower costs. more shared capabilities, lower management costs, more flexible workforce. more effective organization, less duplication and redundancies. and improved business productivity • To engage senior leaders and all levels of business and IT staff across all areas of architecture, including policies, standards, strategies, and governance. • To translate company business strategy into concrete solutions, design and execute an IT systems architecture blueprint to support that strategy. • To collaborate with Delivery. IT & Product teams to define & execute on the architectural strategy. • To focus on the strategic use of emerging technologies to better manage the enterprise’s information and assets, and consistently insert those technologies into the enterprise. • To develop and promote the enterprise architecture principles, designs, and services. • To align technology operation to business requirements. • To align enterprise components to strategy by supporting strategic changes such as the design of a new business model and business operating model, introduction of regulatory and legal changes, introduction of new technology, platforms and infrastructure such as SaaS. Cloud etc. and consolidation of the existing portfolio of people, processes. application and infrastructure. • To reduce cost of solutions development, support, and maintenance, increased portability of applications. improved interoperability and easier system and network management. improved ability to address critical enterprise-wide issues like security. and easier upgrade and exchange of system components. • To drive return on existing investment, reduced risk for future investment, reduced complexity in IT, enhanced return on investment in existing business and IT infrastructure. creation of flexibility to make. buy. or out-source business and IT solutions, and reduce overall risk in new investments and their cost of ownership. • To identify areas for consolidating and reducing costs. improving executive decision making, increasing benefits from innovation and managing business transformation activities. • To champion the drive to cloud and adoption of DevOps philosophy and practice. • To design modular. service-centric architectures that support a ‘build once. deploy many’ deployment posture. • To provide technical leadership while developing and maintaining relationships with Product Managers, Solution Engineers and Technical Architects • To employ modern architectural practices, architecture governance, and defining standard patterns for consumption in the organization. • To assist in performing system analysis at the architectural level contributing to the system design process. • To coach, mentor, train and provide oversight for IT staff. • To learn and introduce new tools and processes as and when required and drive new or changed tools and processes to continually improve performance across the Group. • To drive culture of continuous improvement across the Group through ongoing end-to-end process oversight, improvement and reengineering. • To produce ongoing reporting MIS/Data on a regular and ad-hoc basis. • To propose and employ tools, techniques, and frameworks in the ongoing execution of the EA practice. • To identify learning and development needs and recommend a training plan on an annual basis. • To ensure that all assignments are duly performed as per schedule & Bank procedure. • To perform other duties as assigned by CTO/Divisional Head from time to time |
| Position/Job Title | Software Quality Assurance Analyst — Alternate Delivery Channel |
| Reporting to | • Divisional Head — Project Management Office |
| Academic / Professional Qualification | • Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology (IT), Computer Science or relevant fieldfrom HEC recognized University / Institute or equivalent. |
| Experience | • Minimum 8 years’ experience. • Preference will be given to candidates with system testing experience gained within software houses. banking, or financial services. |
| Other Skills / Expertise/ Knowledge Required: |
Must have followingSkills/ Expertise/ Knowledge: • Demonstrate strong communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels and gain the confidence of the business community by providing regular. appropriate and clear communication • Facilitate business users to participate in UAT • Knowledge of regression testing. black box testing, white box testing and validation of business requirements • Experienced in the creation of UAT detailed Test Plans • Experienced in leading business users through UAT activities, including planning, preparation and execution. • Mentoring and coaching of UAT team members • Have good awareness of all phases of testing including: System Test, System Integration, User Acceptance, non-functional, Operational Acceptance testing • Production of test documentation, including test plans, test requirements. scripts. test outcome reports and metrics • Have experience of creating test estimates, resource planning. procurement and scheduling of test resources including data and environments. • Good knowledge of automated testing tools. • A proven record of working in high pressure environment with changing priorities and deadlines. • Experienced in the use of test techniques such as Risk Based Testing. Advanced Defect Management and Static Testing • Pro-active risk and issue identification. resolution and escalation with ability to translate technical issues into business risk and mitigation. • Desire to work within a cohesive. high-performing, close-knit team. • Passion to learn. grow, succeed. and be challenged. |
| Outline of Main Duties / Responsibilities | • To assist and support the Quality Assurance Manager in creation of Test Estimates • To assist and support the Quality Assurance Manager in the creation of a UAT Test schedule/timeline (covering Test planning, preparation and execution) that are realistic and effective • To assist the Quality Assurance Manager in the production of the overall Test Strategy/Master Test plan • To work closely with the Business users providing support and guidance in creating the business acceptance criteria • To prepare the UAT detailed test plan and ensure that sign off is obtained from key business and project stakeholders • To prepare and review the UAT test cases ensuring that they meet the relevant corporate standards. and demonstrate the coverage as specified in the Test Strategy and Master Test Plan • To report and manage defects to ensure resolution by liaising with the technical teams and business users via a regular defect meeting • To liaise with System test, SIT teams, developers, analysts, designers and business users over all aspects of UAT • To ensure test environments and test data are fully sourced and available prior to UAT test execution • To develop and automate functional. performance and regression tests using industry best practices and tools • To perform automated, manual and regression testing to verify the application and associated financial models have been correctly implemented to meet requirements • To report progress against plan on all UAT activities keeping the QA Manager informed of any slippage and providing recommendations for mitigation. • To ensure all work is carried out and documented in accordance with required standards and procedures • To participate in peer reviews of project deliverables as required. including the review of detailed requirements and design documentation • To prepare UAT test reports including the final test outcome report ensuring sign off from all stakeholders is gained. |
| Position/Job Title | Junior Software Developer — Core Banking Applications |
| Reporting to | • Team Lead Core Banking Application Interface Development |
| Academic / Professional Qualification | • Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology (IT), Computer Science or relevant fieldfrom HEC recognized University / Institute or equivalent. |
| Experience | • Minimum 5 years financial/ banking applications software development experience gained within the IT department of banking or financial services organizations or at software houses and possessing expertise in some or all of the following tools and techniques: • Java i J2EE / Spring MVC / Web-based applications • C++ / OOP concepts • Eclipse / Net Beans • Tomcat / WebSphere / Glassfish • Oracle / SQL server I JDBC / RDBMS concepts • Power Builder / GUI based application • DotNet/ C Sharp / Visual Studio (3.5 and above) • Oracle / SQL server / JDBC / RDBMS concepts • ABAP (SAP Development) |
| Other Skills / Expertise/ Knowledge Required: |
Must have followingSkills/ Expertise/ Knowledge: • Ability to learn new software and technologies quickly. • Observing user feedback to recommend improvements to existing software products. • Strong analytical and exceptional problem-solving skills. • Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels. • Desire to work within a cohesive. high-performing, close-knit team. • Passion to learn, grow, succeed and be challenged. Additional preferred knowledge: • Knowledge of Banking Liability products (Savings, Currents, Term deposits etc.) • Knowledge of Banking Asset products (Running Finance, Term Finance, Mortgage etc.) • Knowledge of branch banking operations (customer and account opening, teller operations, clearing and remittances etc.) • Knowledge of banking application interface development (NIFT. SWIFT, EFT. ATM. e-banking channels etc.) • Knowledge I experience of Digital Mobile Banking • Willing to learn new technologies |
| Outline of Main Duties / Responsibilities | • To analyze requirements and translate business requirements into product design • To write technical specifications and other forms of documentations • To suggest technical alternatives and provide innovative ideas for problem resolution • To develop program logic for new applications or to analyze and modify logic in existing applications • To execute coding, testing, debug fixing, documentation, implementation and maintaining software applications • To provide application support for software already in production • To test and integrate application components • To develop software test plans and quality assurance procedures • To provide application software development services or technical support in any area • To ensure that system improvements are successfully implemented • To support IT operations team in daily tasks of production support • To provide leadership and/or guidance to other technical professionals |
| Position/Job Title | CRM Technical Support |
| Reporting to | • Team Lead Call Center & Customer Relationship Management |
| Academic / Professional Qualification | • Minimum Bachelor’s Degree from a HEC recognized University I Institute or equivalent |
| Experience | • Minimum 2 years experience of development in asp.net, visual basic or Java within Banking, Financial Services or Software House |
| Other Skills / Expertise/ Knowledge Required: |
Must have followingSkills/ Expertise/ Knowledge: • Understanding of C#, ASP.NET and underlying .NET Framework • Understanding of data modeling, database design and data querying. • Understanding of configuring, securing and administrating 115. • Strong knowledge of Crystal reports, Oracle. SQL reporting service. MIS reports and other reporting tools. • Understanding of Object oriented programming. HTML, Javascript (JQuery a plus) and CSS. • Experience with or knowledge of one or all of the following: LINO, Entity Framework and MVC. • Development experience Web Services. • Desire to work within a cohesive, high-performing, close-knit team. • Passion to continuously learn, grow, succeed. and be challenged. |
| Outline of Main Duties / Responsibilities | • To ensure development in asp.net, visual basic or Java • To evaluate, document and translate requirements into technical designs. • To Co-ordinate and provide the necessary information regarding CRM related Projects. and work with Vendors and all stakeholders for testing software changes, conducting SIT / UAT and ensuring implementation. |
| Position/Job Title | Team Lead Payment Switch |
| Reporting to | • Departmental Head Payment Switch & Internet Payment Gateway |
| Academic / Professional Qualification | • Minimum Bachelor’s Degree from HEC recognized University / Institute or equivalent |
| Experience | • Minimum 5 years’ experience in a related field, preferably in banking / financial sector |
| Other Skills / Expertise/ Knowledge Required: |
Must have followingSkills/ Expertise/ Knowledge: • Good knowledge of Payment Systems and Standards related with ATM, Debit/Credit Cards and Switch (Like: XML and IS08583). • Experience in HSM and Technical background in EMV Smartcard technology a plus. • Good technical knowledge for EMV Card Personalization. • Good Knowledge of Application Management. • Risk awareness, escalation and responsive attitude. • Good analytical. proven trouble-shooting and problem solving skills. • Ability to develop and work with high-performing teams to address issues and propose solutions to enhance Customer Experience. • Passion to continuously learn, grow. succeed, and be challenged. |
| Outline of Main Duties / Responsibilities | • To transform Business requirements into Functional and Technical requirements. • To be responsible for on-going and future projects activities to maintain and prepare functional specifications, technical requirements and documentation of ATM, Debit/Credit Cards and Switch. • To work and coordinate with multiple and diverse stakeholders. • To support the Quality Assurance function in designing and executing test scripts and test scenarios. • To generate MIS reports for stakeholders. Hands on experience with SQL/Oracle. |
| Position/Job Title | Digital Service Support |
| Reporting to | • Team Lead Digital Services |
| Academic / Professional Qualification | • Minimum Bachelor’s Degree from HEC recognized University / Institute or equivalent |
| Experience | • Minimum 2 years’ in ADC/Digital e-Banking or related area within Banking, Financial Services or Financial Services Provider |
| Other Skills / Expertise/ Knowledge Required: |
Must have followingSkills/ Expertise/ Knowledge: • Operational & Implementation experience in digital integrations, Mobile and Internet Banking. • Good knowledge of Payment systems and standards related with switches (like Rest API, 1508583 and ISO 20022). • Ability to work with teams to resolve issues and arrive at appropriate solutions. • Good Knowledge and experience of SQL/Oracle to Generate MIS reports. • Desire to work within a cohesive, high-performing, close-knit team. • Passion to continuously learn. grow, succeed, and be challenged. |
| Outline of Main Duties / Responsibilities | • To support on-going projects activities related to Digital Banking. • To coordinate with stakeholders: transforming Business Requirements into Functional and Technical requirements: and to prepare Project Plans. • To support the Quality Assurance function in designing and executing test scripts and test scenarios. |
| Position/Job Title | Internet Banking Support |
| Reporting to | • Team Lead Digital Services |
| Academic / Professional Qualification | • Minimum Bachelor’s Degree from a HEC recognized University Institute or equivalent |
| Experience | • Minimum 2 years’ in ADC/Digital e-Banking or related area within Banking, Financial Services or Financial Solutions Provider. |
| Other Skills / Expertise/ Knowledge Required: |
Must have followingSkills/ Expertise/ Knowledge: • Extensive experience in Mobile, Internet banking, VAS services Utility Bill Payments, IBFT, Digital Wallets, Ecommerce & web-based technologies. • Good knowledge of systems and standards related to mobile/ internet banking. Also knowledge of Payment Systems and Standards. • Ability to work with teams to resolve issues and arrive at appropriate solutions. • Desire to work within a cohesive, high-performing. close-knit team. • Passion to continuously learn, grow. succeed, and be challenged. |
| Outline of Main Duties / Responsibilities | • To be responsible for on-going projects activities related to Digital Banking Application. • To work and coordinate with multiple internal and external stakeholders. • To transform Business Requirements into Functional and Technical specifications. • To support the Quality Assurance function in designing and executing test scripts and test scenarios. • To generate MIS reports for all stake holders. Hands on experience on SQL/Oracle |
| Position/Job Title | Backup Administrator |
| Reporting to | • Section Head — Storage Administration |
| Academic / Professional Qualification | • Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in IT or equivalent from HEC recognized University I Institute or equivalent. • Backup administration certification will be preferred. |
| Experience | • Overall 6 years’ in relevant field with minimum 3 years’ proven experience in Backup Administration and related technologies. |
| Other Skills / Expertise/ Knowledge Required: |
• Desire to work within a cohesive, high-performing, close-knit team. • Passion to learn, grow. succeed and be challenged. • Virtual Tape Libraries experience for backup and recovery effectiveness. |
| Outline of Main Duties / Responsibilities | • To perform storage and back-up administration and operational tasks in compliance with specific product requirements, and organizational SLAs and OLAs. Create formal documentation and standardize formats for detailed work plans, procedures, and policies. • To manage existing backup solution and provide periodic reports for senior management. • To perform proactive checks. creates automated scripts and packages that make operations more efficient. Conduct research and recommend solutions for operational improvement. • To perform issue resolution, ensure entrance criteria is accurately captured for issue identification and exit data is consistently provided to ensure complete resolution. Follow-up on open tickets to ensure they are being actively worked • To be responsible for all aspects of managing our Storage Area Network (SAN) and Backup environments, including: but not limited to, installation, monitoring, provisioning, backup & recovery, and tuning. • To work effectively with teams across various teams/customers of BAS (Backup and Storage) services. • To develop technology standards and establishment of performance guidelines to support daily operations of storage infrastructure. • To support of Symantec Netbackup /IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)/VEEAM I Dell EMC or equivalent enterprise level backup and storage management solution. • To execute capacity planning to ensure sufficient resources to meet IT/business requirements. • To ensure DR drills and regular backups restoration and support for validation activities be extended at regular intervals. • To proactively identifying and resolving common root causes of issues and addressing those to improve the overall quality of production stability. • To provide 24X7 support, as required. |
- Assessment Test / Interviews:Â Only shortlisted applicants strictly meeting the above-mentioned basic eligibility criteria will be invited for test and/or panel interviews.
- Employment Type:Â The employment will be on contractual basis, for three years which may be renewed on discretion of the Management. Selected candidates will be offered compensation package and other benefits as per Bank’s Policy / rules.
- Place of Posting:Â Karachi
- Interested candidates may apply on-line by 01-09-2020 as per given
Instructions.
- The candidates should clearly mention their Name, Father’s Name, Date of Birth, CNIC Number, Qualifications with
- percentage / CGPA / Division, Place of Domicile and complete Current Mailing / Residential Address with Telephone
- Numbers PTCL / Mobile in their Resume / Application.
- Applications received after due date will not be considered in any case. No TA/DA will be admissible for test / interview.App
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