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Job Title: Automation Engineer

Experience: 2 to 4 Years

Qualification & Experience

• Experience in Automation Testing using Core Java + Selenium.
• Expert in Java concepts and programming.
• Capable to develop small utility tools in JAVA.
• Experience in Developing Automation framework, with POM.
• Good knowledge of automated testing processes, methodologies and software development lifecycles, and good knowledge on data Structures and algorithms.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and actively introduces advanced process improvements and test technologies.
• Independently design, develop & enhance test automation scripts/framework.

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Automation Test Lead

Experience: 8 to 12 Years

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Building testing strategy to setup tools / frameworks, processes and quality gates to support continuous high-quality delivery while scaling applications and team
• Responsible for creating test infrastructure and tools
• Upskilling the team to achieve the testing strategy
• Define quality metrics, setup target, monitor and report and setting up goals to meet the target
• Ensuring that unified testing process and tools used across all sprint/project teams
• Monitor the effectiveness of testing practices in all stages of SDLC/STLC and ensure constant improvements
• Stay up to speed on process, practice and technology, new developments in QA areas and validate them for adaptation to our environment

Required Candidate Profile

• 8+ Years of experience in testing domain and great level of understanding of development practices
• Good experience in designing and developing testing tools/frameworks
• Hands on with building and improving test automation frameworks with automation tools like Selenium web driver, Appium, Calabash, SOAPUI, TestNG and Cucumber
• Proficient in any one of programming language (e.g Java, Python) to build testing automation
• Great understanding on Unit testing, Functional testing, UI and Cross browser, Performance testing and Security testing
• Experience in test case management system
• Experience in setting up CI and CD environment with multiple quality gates
• Experience of technically leading Test Automation projects both on Web, Mobile and REST automation side
• Deep understanding of different test automation approaches (keyword-driven, Data-driven, BDD)

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Business Analyst / Senior Business Analyst

Experience: 4 to 8 Years

Job Description:

• Manages, analyses business requirements with the ability to prioritize during changes and conflicts.
• Can independently facilitate user groups and drive consensus.
• Ability to write detailed descriptions and analysis of user needs, business impacts and systems functionality for software development life cycle.
• Lead cross-functional elicitation requirements sessions with subject matter experts to determine potential conflicts/other requirements that may exist in other areas.
• Understands the project schedule and plans/prioritizes the work schedule for a team and meets deadlines consistently.
• Ability to work independently and handle multiple projects.
• Guide the testing team in understanding the requirements and ensure proper coverage of the functionality during the various test phases.
• Should be able to work independently and share learning's with fellow colleagues.

Key Competencies, Knowledge, Skills:

• 4-8 years of experience in BFS domain. Preferably in a Banking Product company
• B.Tech /B.E/Graduate in Any Specialization + an MBA
• Comprehensive and detailed Business Analysis and Requirement Documentation (BRD) skills required.
• Work experience in an agile project will be ideal
• Knowledge of financial services industry & Current Industry Practices
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to audiences of various levels in the organization, e.g., executive, management, individual contributors
• Ability to persuade and influence others on the best approach to take

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Business Intelligence Engineer

Experience: 3 to 8 Years

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Interprets data and turns it into analytical reports which can offer ways to improve a business, thus affecting business decisions
• Involves in report curation and data modeling
• Translate business needs to technical specifications
• Design, build and deploy BI solutions (e.g., reporting tools) Tableau
• Evaluate and improve existing BI systems
• Collaborate with teams to integrate systems
• Develop and execute database queries and conduct analyses
• Create visualizations and reports for business needs
• Strong in anyone programming language and database

Desired Candidate Profile

• MySQL, AWS Redshift, NoSQL
• ETL Concepts - Any Tool preferably Open Source
• Data Warehouse concepts (for DW)
• Python/JAVA
• Logical Skills
• Big Data concepts
• Data Visualization Tool

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Junior Data Scientist / Junior Data Analyst

Experience: 1 to 2 Years

Roles and Responsibilities:

• People, with no prior experience in the field and/or domain will spend their initial months in understanding data, do basic analysis and validation, reports, to get deeper understanding of the business.
• Candidates with prior relevant experience will work in development and implementation of predictive models and recommend actionable insights; they will use advanced machine learning techniques, among others, as per business requirements.

Qualification & Experience:

• 1-2 years of development experience in OOPS programming languages like Python and data processing using SQL or equivalent
• For experienced, good experience in analytical and statistical packages like R, Python Scikit-Learn
• BE/B Tech degrees in Computer Science or MCA and in closely related Quantitative Disciplines

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Description: The Five9 Systems Administrator duties include platform administration of the Five9 dialing platform, to include standard and customized process flow requirements; creating new inbound/outbound campaigns, IVRs and external system connectors. Uploading & downloading files into and from the calling platform, campaign monitoring, reporting and providing call center managers with insight into performance and improvement opportunities. Administrator will be cross trained to understand the company, its trends, revenue and customer service expectations, workforce management and other aspects relevant to the decision-making process of the business.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build, customize and maintain all IVR scripts
• Create, maintain and manage dialer lists as required by Call Center capacity
• Manage performance of overall system, provide monitoring of dropped calls, abandoned rates and other metrics deemed necessary to optimize call handling processes
• Respond to user reported issues via existing ticket system and process; troubleshoot with Call Center Agents and Supervisors experiencing problems or inefficiencies
• Explore and expand on the existing IVR / Dialer platform for automation and integration opportunities
• Work with stakeholders for integration to include building API's, auto dispositioning and Computer Telephony Integration (screen pops)
• Ensure robustness and high performance of existing IVR / Dialer
• Create and implement new campaigns and skills as required by the business units
• Record audio messages for Intelligent Voice Routing (IVR) announcements
• Communicate with management daily to define, monitor & implement strategies and initiatives
• Generate reports; configure report automation and scheduling as necessary
• Carry out other daily tasks associated with ensuring the Company's ongoing success with use and effective application of the Call Center Telephony platform
• Collaborate with Operations, Product Engineering, other cross-functional teams to enhance IVR / Dialer for superior caller and agent experience
• Maintain documentation of workflows for IVR routing, dialer strategies and agent skilling providing efficiency changes as identified
• Develop and manage reports to track key performance indicators that give business insight
• Experienced candidate will be expected to provide technical guidance to junior members in the team

Required:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent in a technical field
• Professional administration experience with Telephony systems required
• Previous experience as an IVR/Dialer Admin in Five9
• People with experience in dialers such as inContact, Genesys, LiveVox, Ameyo will also be considered, if Five9 experience is absent
• Knowledge of Call Center operations
• 2-5 years relevant experience
• Detail-oriented, analytical and self-motivated with strong written and verbal communication skills
• Innovative, multi-faceted and comfortable with complex concepts and ideas
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adjust focus and workflow based on changing deadlines and needs
• Effective team player with ability to complete tasks and projects while monitoring various aspects of operations

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Process Associate (Level 1)

Experience: 3 to 4 Years (exp in Process Management from FinTech, Banking & Finance, Technology Operations, etc.)

Job Summary: This role requires an understanding of fintech processes and an overall Six Sigma, Lean Management. The candidate will work with the Technology and cross functional teams to implement new processes, review existing processes, and suggest improvements, documentation of the processes, track performance and metrics, etc.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Contribute towards setting up new processes and ensure it is being followed
• Recommend process improvements & suggest alternatives for continuous enhancement
• Identify and implement industry best practices
• Identifying process gaps and work with all stakeholders to resolve the gaps
• Perform regular/periodic monitoring to ensure all the processes and operations run smoothly
• To create/write clear and concise SOPs and process documents
• To review and deep dive into existing process, conduct root cause analysis for production issues and implement corrective actions
• Commit to standardization in existing processes and in new process implementation
• Report discrepancies and concerns to cross functional team
• Publishing RCA meeting notes, working with Technical writers to complete the issue summary documentation
• Taking part in daily stand-ups, weekly/monthly review meetings with Managers
• Prepare monthly reporting metrics (defects, efficiency improvement areas, near misses, etc.)
• Prepare monthly decks/slides to report the progress made
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
• Ensure delivery of priorities with minimal supervision
• Ability to track the process performance and work with seniors to define metrics/reports

Soft Skills:

• Strong logical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate ideas to technical and non-technical functions
• Stakeholder management is a necessary skill for the job
• Highly collaborative and networking
• Eye for details, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills

Others:

• Knowledge of Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen or equivalent continuous improvement framework is an added value
• Experience in FinTech industry is an added advantage

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Process Data Analyst (Six Sigma)

Experience: 3 to 5 Years (exp in process performance metrics / finance/account background with experience in financial forecasting, reporting and operational metrics tracking)

Job Summary: The process data analyst forecasts and track actuals of efficiency improvements, cost saving and other benefits by understanding various six sigma projects and working with different functional stakeholders.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Defining process performance metrics for various projects
• Tracking the process performance metrics
• Analysing metrics and providing insights to management
• Prepare monthly reporting metrics (defects, efficiency improvement areas, near misses, etc.)
• Prepare monthly decks/slides to report the progress made
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams

Soft Skills:

• Strong logical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate ideas to technical and non-technical functions
• Stakeholder management is a necessary skill for the job
• Highly collaborative and networking
• Eye for details, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills

Others:

• Good knowledge of Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen or equivalent continuous improvement framework is important for this role
• Experience in FinTech industry is an added advantage

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Python Developer

Experience: 2 to 8 Years

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design and develop REST based Web services in Python
• Design and develop gRPC based services in Python
• Follow the coding conventions and best practices in day-to-day work with a passion for clean code
• Participate in peer design review and code review of team members
• Follow agile methodology for development
• Design and implement performance/time critical batch jobs in production environments
• Setup CI/CD (Jenkins/Ansible) for projects in development
• Write Unit tests (PyTest) and integration tests for projects with very good coverage percentage
• Read and understand Java code from other services to write python client wrappers for the services (good to have)

Qualification & Experience

• Proven experience in Python related projects, REST based scalable web services development
• Thorough understanding of application development methodologies
• 2 – 8 years’ experience with the following - Python, Django/Flask
• Good working knowledge in Python
• Good understanding of OOPS concepts
• Familiar with writing REST APIs, good understanding of REST standards, HTTP protocols, Web development concepts
• Good in Data structures and algorithms
• Having knowledge on writing Unit tests (Pytest etc), integration tests
• Multi-platform OS (Windows/Mac/Linux)
• Exposure to writing basic SQL queries is a plus
• Exposure to CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, Ansible) is a plus
• Exposure to working in an agile environment is a plus
• Exposure to some basic Java is a plus
• Exposure to TDD (Test Driven development) and BDD (Behaviour Driven development) is a plus
• Exposure to some front-end development with JavaScript and AngularJS is a plus
• Having a polyglot mindset towards other programming languages and technology stacks, open to learning new skills if required is a huge plus

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Monitoring of call recordings for the calls made or received by the associates to check required quality parameters are achieved
• Coach/Mentor the offshore team on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to achieve quality improvements
• Use the agents’ quality monitoring system to compile and track performance at team and individual level
• Work closely with supervisors and quality team to develop agent and team specific action and development plans
• Provide written/verbal feedback and tracking the agents’ performance on all completed monitoring sessions
• Report out any zero tolerance cases and suggest corrective actions for defects identified during monitoring
• Do root cause analysis, trend analysis, training need analysis for the process
• Collect and analyse customer feedback that comes through different channels and to act on every opportunity
• Ensure adherence to compliance standards
• Identify improvement areas & implementing measures to maximize customer satisfaction levels
• Set up metrics to monitor various operational / functional metrics, technical knowledge, and performance, in par with company policies and procedures.
• Create new templates, dashboard, and matrix to measure agents’ performance
• Make recommendations for enhancements to training materials / processes as needed to enhance the overall experience and achieve operational excellence
• Ensure knowledge consistency means like calibration, quizzes, D-Sat scrubbing etc
• Creating and Publishing the regular audit reports to the Management team
• Active participation in internal and external calibrations
• Should be able to work independently, prioritize schedule work assignments based on deadlines
• Taking the ownership and driving the Process Improvement initiatives
• Perform all assigned tasks and responsibilities on time with accuracy

Required Experience & Skills:

• Minimum 2 years of call centre experience as QA for Inbound / Outbound process in any International call center
• Any bachelor’s degree or higher from good institute
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
• Should be able to communicate in a clear, constructive, and professional manner
• Should be well versed with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
• Experience in Finance/Lending Industry will be an added advantage
• Experience in working as a collection agent within a International call centre will be an added advantage

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Senior Java Developer

Experience: 3 to 6 Years

Job Summary: We are looking for a strong, well-rounded, polyglot developer to help us create a robust, scalable platform which will be consumed/used by the various products inside our organization.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Designs, develops and documents highly scalable services preferably in Java (and/or Python).
• Integrates with various 3rd party services and internal Salesforce based CRM application.
• Designs and implements common, reusable web services to be consumed by a variety of internal products.
• Participates in design discussions with other client product teams.
• Can interact with various other teams, including Marketing, Compliance, Technology, Data Scientists, Customer Service, etc.
• Has a keen eye for coding, design best practices.

Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor of Engineering, preferably in Computer Science/or related fields or Masters, from a premier college
• 3 to 6 years overall software development experience
• Proven hands-on Software Development experience
• Ability to work with an agile mindset
• Having a polyglot mindset to think beyond one programming language/framework to choose the right tech stack for the right problem and exhibit learnability to pick up new technologies
• Proven working experience in Java development/Python development with reasonable exposure to Python/Java respectively or willingness to learn Python/Java
• Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms/Python Frameworks
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
• Good Understanding of Data Structures & Algorithms
• Hands on multi-threading
• Experience in the Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (e.g. JDBC, JPA2, Hibernate, Django ORM)
• Experience with test-driven development
• Exposure to Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) is a plus
• Exposure to containerization e.g. Docker is a plus
• Exposure to gRPC is a plus
• Having a code repository in github.com or similar sites to showcase some side projects or work is a plus

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Senior Technical Lead (JAVA)

Experience: 6 to 9 Years

Job Summary: We are looking for strong, well-rounded developers to improve design and upgrade a Decision Engine built using several technologies. The persons will be part of Decision Engineering team that purposefully uses different programming languages for various functions, providing a service layer to communication with a web front-end and various third-party data provider.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Designs, develops, and documents company's proprietary decision engine using Java technologies.
• Works with a group of data scientists to build and deploy predictive models in languages like R and Python.
• Integrates the business decision logic into the ecosystem of the company's infrastructure to facilitate company operations.
• Integrates with Python based web front end and Cloud Lending (Salesforce.com based) CRM application.
• Periodically builds test systems to help validate new models as they emerge from our data science team.
• Can interact with various other teams, including Marketing, Compliance, Technology, Data Scientists, Customer Service, etc.

Key Requirements:

• 6 - 9 years overall software development experience
• Proven Hands-on working experience in Java development
• Hands on experience in developing applications using Core Java, Java EE platforms
• Hands on experience in Spring & Hibernate
• Good Understanding of data structures, OOPS & Algorithms
• Experience in web applications, Java Script, AJAX
• Experience in working on Generics and Collections
• Experience in ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
• Experience in working with SQL/MYSQL/Oracle
• Strong presentation, communication, and logical skills

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Technical Writer

Number of open positions: 2

Experience: 5 to 8 Years (Experience in writing technical documents for FinTech, Banking & Finance, Technology Operations, etc.)

Job Summary: This role requires experience in writing the Technology features & functionalities into a readable document for both Tech and Non-Tech groups. The candidate will work with the Process, Technology, and cross-functional teams to document the new implementations & product enhancements, also creating process documents and root cause analysis documentations.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• To create/write clear and concise documents
• Work with the SMEs (product, process managers, architects, developers, test engineers, etc.) to get information about the technology features, functionalities, and processes.
• Prepare high quality documentation deliverables such as process documents, procedure documents, flow diagrams, training materials, user guides.
• To gather information from documents, analyse the information and extract the required information for different types of deliverables.
• Interact with cross-functional teams to gather inputs for Root Cause Analysis documentation.
• Maintaining documentation versions, Updating the documents post any process change or modification.
• Proofread and edit the documentation to ensure consistency of language and style.
• Responsible for researching various sources of information and interacting with SMEs.
• Collaborates with SMEs to determine the necessary content updates.
• To work on multiple projects at the same time.
• Ensure delivery of priorities with minimal supervision.

Soft Skills:

• In-depth knowledge of English – sentence construction, grammar, spelling, and punctuation, etc.
• Excellent research and verbal communication skills
• Stakeholder management is a necessary skill for the job
• Highly collaborative and networking

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Web Developer

Number of open positions: 1

Experience: 2 to 4 Years

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering
• Conceptualize original website design ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex roadblocks
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards
• Create website layout/user interface by using standard HTML/CSS practices
• Cooperate with web designers to match visual design intent

Key Qualifications:

• 2 to 4 years of HTML (with HTML5 experience), CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and Bootstrap are essentials
• Expert knowledge of HTML and CSS Competency with web UX conventions and standards and experience in Responsive design
• Fluent in JavaScript, jQuery and ability to learn other JS frameworks
• Experience in website information architecture and page layout planning
• Understanding of web design/development concepts and processes
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively
• Basic knowledge of Search Engine Optimization process
• Candidate must have excellent communication and presentation skills and ability to quickly adapt to changing requirements, diverse project needs, and tight timelines

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Data Warehouse Engineer

Experience: 3 to 6 Years

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Plays an analytical role in quickly and thoroughly analyzing business requirements for reporting and analysis and subsequently translating the emanating results into good technical data designs.
• Works closely with other disciplines and teams across the business in coming up with simple, functional, and elegant solutions that balance data needs across the business.
• Create best practices for data loading and extraction.
• Develop data architecture, data modelling, and ETL mapping solutions within structured data warehouse environment.
• Develop reporting applications and data warehouse consistency.
• Facilitate requirements gathering using expert listening skills and develop unique simple solutions to meet the immediate and long-term needs of business customers.
• Design and build cubes while performing custom scripts.
• Develop and implement ETL routines according to the DWH design and architecture.
• Support the development and validation required through the lifecycle of the DWH and Business Intelligence systems, maintain user connectivity, and provide adequate security for data warehouse.
• Monitor the DWH and BI systems performance and integrity provide corrective and preventative maintenance as required.
• Experience in setting up data quality process and metrics.
• Experience with AWS shift is a plus.
• Strong in any one of programming languages (python, Java).

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Financial Modeler

Job Description:

• Maintain and build financial models to plan, measure and forecast existing and new business ventures.
• Conduct simulations and What-if scenarios.
• Periodic monitoring of company's cashflows, financials.
• Support Senior Financial Analysts and Managers to engage with leadership regarding business strategy, go to market, functional strategy, spending initiatives, ad hoc financial analysis and monthly, quarterly and annual planning.
• Participate in monthly rolling forecast and variance analyses.

Requirements:

• Financial Acumen: Have mastery understanding of financial statements
• Financial Modeling: Be able to understand and update financial models that follow industry best practice. Expertise in Excel
• Business Acumen: Be able to understand the business at a level to understand company and fp&a team strategy
• Data Analysis: A passion for understanding business questions and making data driven insights. Excellent analytical skills
• Business Partnership: Consistent track record of using quantitative analysis to impact key business decisions.
• Strong communication: Ability to present financial data using detailed reports and charts
• Experience recommendation: 3-6 years of experience in a finance role ideally in a fin-tech start-up/investment banking/consulting
• Qualifications: top tier MBA in Finance/CA/CFA

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: DevOps Technical Lead

Job Summary: To design and build automation solutions for various production applications deployment and infrastructures management in a highly scalable manner.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain DevOps automation tools and processes.
• Design, implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (laaC).
• Automating the deployment, scaling, and management of dev, test, staging and production infrastructures.
• Improve monitoring of infrastructure and applications.
• Design and build automated processes maintaining reproducibility, auditability and traceability information for deployment, monitoring and operations.
• Work in close coordination with the Engineering team.
• Leading in the evaluation of DevOps tools and recommend those that best meet the organization requirements.
• Technical direction in the design and implementation of continuous integration and continuous delivery /deployment CI /CD) processes in the form of a pipeline for the delivery of software across the enterprise.
• A commitment to best practices on operational processes for DevOps.
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations.

Skills Required:

• Strong in any one of programming languages (python, Java).
• 5+ years of DevOps engineering experience.
• Experience in managing linux based infrastructures.
• Good hands-on knowledge of Configuration Management and Deployment tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform and Windows PowerShell.
• Experience in Source control management such as Git, Bitbucket.
• Experience in build tools like Maven, Ant, Gradle.
• Strong programming and scripting (e.g. Python, Ruby, Shell, Go, etc.) and automation skills.
• Experience in designing and implementing fully automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with CI/CD automation tools such as Jenkins or Bamboo.
• Experience writing and maintaining Docker and Docker compose files.
• Experience in container orchestration using tools like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm or Mesos.
• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure and ecosystem is a must to develop and maintain an Amazon AWS based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.
• Experience in setting up systems for auto-scaling - Both horizontal and vertical.
• Stellar troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
• Working knowledge of Veracode Web security / other equivalent continuous application security tool is a plus.
• Excellent in written and oral communication.

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Lead Engineer – TechOps Automation

Job Responsibilities: The TechOps automation lead is expected to,

• Manage a team of least 5-7 software engineers, understand the business requirements, allocate right tasks, manage bandwidth, and meet the team’s expectations on providing automated solutions with high quality.
• Should be able to mentor and build a team of freshers, guide them with industry best practices and procedures on developing codes.
• Guide the team with clear SDLC process.
• Should be technically sound in any programming languages (python preferred) and would need to QA the team members coding skills, ensure its of high standards, error-free.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and actively introduces advanced process improvements and test technologies.
• Should be able to understand the business needs, write and drive roles and responsibilities for the team members, effectively groom them and make the team self-running.
• Should be highly collaborative with the team, and other stakeholders.
• Should be capable of analysing, communicating & presenting on varied technical, business and system issues involving exposure to many areas / levels of the underlying applications. 
• Understand the compliance and regulatory terms/requirements of the business, learn and adapt to them, and ensure team is obliged to follow, and system errors deviating from those are given immediate attention and resolution.
• Should be flexible to share extended duties when need arises to deliver consistent results.
 
• Take initiatives on continuous improvement and quality of operations, finding gaps and fixing them to decrease the turnaround times.
• High interaction with business users and engagement with Development & other Production/Systems support teams looking to adopt and apply the best practice of deployments and operational Support, Compliance and other security controls.
• Should bring industry practices of documenting all processes of the team.
• Should be able to initiate and drive projects without any assistance, should be a strong leader in driving projects and meet deadlines.

Key Skillsets:

• 5+ years relevant work experience in software development/DevOps/Automation.
• Should have managed a team for at least a year or so.
• Communication is very essential as this role deals with lot of stakeholders and executive discussions on Managers’ absence.
• Should have driven technical projects.

Desirable Skills:

• Good Knowledge of any programming Python / Java / C / C++ / Django 
• Should have very good knowledge on code repositories (git, bitbucket, svn)
• Should be very good in MySQL / SQL 
• Basic Linux OS knowledge 
• Should have worked in project management tools like JIRA.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills 
• Has worked on open-source tools and can implement them on projects undertaken. 
• Ideally someone who has reasonably good working knowledge on the above or who can pick up these skills in reasonably short time.
• Any process driven certificates (scrum, six-sigma, etc)
• Knowledge on Incidents and escalation practices.

Nice to Have Skills:

• Has worked on log monitoring / Analysis (ELK - Elasticsearch / logstash / Kibana) 
• Exposure in cloud services like AWS is a big plus.
• Exposure to DevOPS methodologies and any tools like Docker, Jenkins, Ansible, etc will be an added advantage. 
• Exposure to other tools like ticketing (OTRS), Salesforce Cloud apps (like Exact Target, service cloud) will also be considered as an advantage.

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: Compliance Team Lead

Job Summary: The Compliance Team Lead will be part of the Compliance (Second line of defense) team and assist in supporting the Compliance Monitoring & Testing Group's efforts to adhere to the rapidly changing legal and regulatory environment as it relates to the consumer lending industry. The Compliance Team Lead conducts compliance testing with the implementation of the Risk Based Compliance Program as developed by the Chief Legal Officer to include testing of operational and lending compliance, Analytical model monitoring and validation, analyzing risk assessments, and documenting risk assessments based on laws and regulations. Participates in job-specific training and other training programs as required; ensures compliance with federal and state consumer protection regulations and all loan servicing policies and procedures; other duties as may be assigned.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Conducts compliance testing and completes supporting test work and documentation in a professional and timely manner in accordance with compliance procedures and department standards.
• Identifies and assists in developing monitoring and testing work papers regarding operational areas of risk that may impact compliance and business losses.
• Monitoring of analytical models, validation and outcome of other related decisioning criteria as per compliance requirements
• Review of model production process and controls ensuring the models are executed appropriately and controls are performed with relevant evidence to enable a robust and seamless model/process audit.
• Collaborate with Business representatives in validating the monitoring or testing results and ensuring remediation of findings.
• Identifies process improvement opportunities based on analysis of testing conducted and recommends operational best practices.
• Reviews operational practices and process, laws, and regulations applicable to the testing conducted and updates compliance testing work papers, as appropriate.
• Conduct testing and period reviews of department procedures to ensure compliance with federal and state laws and regulations.
• Conduct account level reviews and root cause analysis related to consumer inquiries and business-based matters.
• Assists in ensuring records are in order and comply with regulatory and internal retention guidelines.
• Assists the team in completing their daily Compliances testing activities.
• Playing the role of SME (subject matter expert) and train the resources.
• Prepare management reports regarding compliance operations and progress.
• Demonstrates capability in gathering data and drawing conclusions on testing results.
• Works towards or exhibits intermediate to proficiency of compliance testing design or theory such as independence, self-identification, and documentation standards.
• Performs a variety of duties as required by the position and/or assigned.

Qualification & Experience:

• A self-starting individual
• Master’s Degree in Economics, Statistics, Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, other related field or Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Technology
• 5 to 7 years of financial institution experience is required.
• Compliance experience in working with consumer laws and regulations.
• Sound Knowledge on Consumer lending products.
• Working knowledge of Compliance Monitoring/Testing on Analytical model, validation and other related decisioning criteria.
• Attention to detail is necessary for accurately performing tasks.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.), Adobe, and possess other computer-related skills.
• Ability to identify and assess compliance risks required.
• Exceptionally strong analytical and research skills.
• Demonstrated reasoning and critical thinking skills with the ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions to make recommendations to management.
• Must maintain confidentiality and exercise discretion in performing daily duties.
• Project management experience is necessary to work effectively in a high-pressure environment with time constraints.
• Strong writing and presentation skills are required.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are necessary for maintaining effective relationships with employees and business unit management.

Nice to Have:

• Consumer Lending Experience preferred.
• Data mining experience preferred.
• Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) certification is a plus but not required.

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.

Job Title: UX Designer

Product UX designers at ADF define the user experience for a product feature based on business requirements, customer insights and customer analytics data. They create sketches and wireframes and work with graphic designers on producing design files.

Responsibilities:

• People with UX design experience (preferably B2C, fintech or ecommerce experience)
• Develop deep understanding of customer conversion funnel. Leverage data to understand issues and propose design solutions.
• Solve complex design problems across the web and mobile devices
• Collaborate with product owners/managers to give shape to roadmap items
• Find opportunities for improving customer experience and validate assumptions through research
• Ability to come up with sketches and wireframes quickly to seek feedback and iterate
• Work with UX graphic designers to create design files and prototypes
• Be extremely collaborative and open to suggestions. Ability to work in a team.

Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a product UX designer
• Experience using a wireframing tool
• Ability to understand and request analysis related to customer interactions

Interested? Please send your resume to careersindia@applieddatafinance.com.