Bread Financial - Senior Application Engineer

Bread Financial; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Bread Financial is seeking a Senior Application Engineer to oversee the planning and implementation of applications and systems integration. The role requires collaboration with various departments and key vendors to ensure reliable IT services.

The ideal candidate will possess 5-7 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree. Proficiency in programming and experience with Agile methodologies are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• 5 to 7 years of IT work experience in application engineering.
• Hands-on development experience in projects with Agile/Waterfall methodologies.
• Ability to manage vendor relationships and technical planning.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead integration efforts across departments.
• Provide top-tier technical support and mentor team members.
• Create and maintain documentation for systems and procedures.

Skills

Proficient in programming languages/frameworks/products

Intermediate knowledge in technology enhancements

Agile methodologies experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

SCCM

VMware ESXi

Azure

AWS

Job description

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Job Summary

The Application Engineer, Sr. is responsible for the planning, designing, acquisition, maintenance, and implementation of applications, infrastructure, system integration, and solutions utilizing vendor relationships and internal IT and business partners with guidance and direction only on the most complex situations. This position is recognized as an expert within the organization and is responsible for solving complex problems within the area(s) they work and support. This position leads the research, design, validation, and implementation of systems, components, and technologies and provides recommendations for strategies, roadmaps and solutions. This person will ensure the solutions employed across the organization support the needs of evolving business by effectively understanding the changing technology. This individual will also provide oversight and assistance across project design and delivery, ongoing administration including monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and ensuring availability and reliability across multiple providers and services.

Technology

Essential Job Functions:

• Independently advises, mentors, and collaborates with team members, stakeholders, vendors on execution strategies and design efforts, including (but not limited to) technology enhancements and capacity planning.
• Collaborates with cross‑functional departments & IT partners to plan and lead integration efforts that align with business/operation initiatives.
• Work directly with multiple departments and lines of business to support their IT needs. This includes gathering business requirements to develop solutions.
• Provide top‑tier technical support and responds to escalations from lower level engineers, as necessary, and acts as primary vendor contact for all issues escalated to/from vendors.
• Works on related problems, change management and escalated incidents.
• Submits RFQ/RFPs, obtains quotes, aggregates documents and proposals, and maintains current and proposed End‑of‑Life schedules, and tracks progression of key vendors.

Relationships

• Maintains all vendor relationships and partners to support strategy and architectural design efforts for systems and technology that they support.
• Engages and collaborates with key vendors, carriers, and internal/external partners to support technical planning of mid‑to‑long‑term initiatives. This may include planning, build requirements, project management, SOW/BOM legal review, service & maintenance contract review, asset management, training, systems monitoring, programming & tuning.

Technical Knowledge

• Expectation is to be proficient in one or more of the following areas (e.g. Windows Desktop, SCCM, VMware ESXi virtualization, Windows Server Operating Systems, Server hardware platforms in an enterprise environment, preferably Cisco UCS, Cloud Computing (Azure / AWS), Networking (Data), Telecom (Collaboration), Infrastructure Automation, VDI/VMware Horizon, Palo Alto Firewall, Microstrategy, DataBricks, Cloudera etc.) and implement or manage/maintain at least two platform.

Documentation

• Creates, reviews, and maintains documentation of deployments, systems, and procedures relating to job/team responsibilities.
• Produces documentation as requested for internal customers, audits and compliance purposes.
• Participates in the approval process.
• Reports and presents quarterly capacity analyses of licensing, equipment, and utilization.

Reports to

Lead or Higher.

Working Conditions / Physical Requirements

• Must maintain currency of technical skills in relevant technologies.
• May be required to lift up to 80 pounds for installation of equipment (depending on focus of job); 24/7 On‑call coverage; may be required to work outside of normal business hours, including weekends and possibly holidays; May be required to travel domestically 15-20% annually.
• May be required to go under desks & floor tiles, use ladders/electric lifts move ceiling tiles.

Direct Reports

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Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Years of Work Experience : 5 to 7 years.
• Type / focus of work experience required : Intermediate/Proficiency in 1 or more programming languages/frameworks/products, with hands on development experience in projects.
• Must have worked in projects adopting Iterative/Agile/Water fall methodologies and must be proficient with its practices.

Preferred Experience

• Degree Preferred : Bachelors Degree in either Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or Engineering or equivalent relevant experience.

Other Duties

This job description is illustrative of the types of duties typically performed by this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of each and every essential function of the job. Because job content may change from time to time, the Company reserves the right to add and/or delete essential functions from this job at any time.

Job Family

Information Technology.

Job Type

Regular.

Bread Financial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.