SEBI IT Officer Recruitment 2023, Vacancies, Online Application

By Prachi Agarwal | Updated on: Mar 14, 2023

SEBI Grade A IT Notification 2023

SIDBI Grade A (Assistant Manager) IT

The SEBI Grade A 2023 notification for various posts is expected to be announced soon. Before you begin your SEBI Grade A IT exam preparation, it is essential that you have a fair idea about the exam dates, eligibility criteria, vacancies & other important information.

SEBI Grade A (IT) Highlights 2023

Conducting AuthoritySecurities and Exchange Board of India
Official Website www.sebi.gov.in
Name of the Posts Information Technology
Mode of application Online
Stages of Exam Three Stages-
  • Phase 1- Preliminary Exam
  • Phase 2- Mains Exam
  • Phase 3- Personal Interview
Maximum marks & Time duration
  • Phase 1-
    • Paper 1- 100 marks & 1 hour
    • Paper 2- 100 marks & 40 minutes
  • Phase 2-
    • Paper 1- 100 marks 1 hour
    • Paper 2-
    • English (Descriptive Test) to test the drafting skills- 100 marks & 1 hour
    • (IT Stream)- 100 marks & 3 hours 30 minutes (30 minutes without typing + 180 minutes coding test duration)
  • Phase 3 - 15% [Weightage of interview marks to phase 2 exam (85%)]
Online registration including Editing / Modification of Application by Candidates To be notified later
SEBI Grade A IT Phase 1 Online Examination Admit Card To be notified later
SEBI Grade A Phase 1 Online Examination and Paper 1 of Phase 2 Examination Date To be notified later
SEBI Officer Grade A (Assistant Manager) Paper 2 of Phase 2 Examination Date To be notified later
SEBI Grade A Phase 3 Interview Date To be notified later
Roll Numbers of Selected Candidates - SEBI Grade A Recruitment (IT Stream) Phase 1 To be notified later
Roll Numbers of Selected Candidates - SEBI Grade A Recruitment (IT Stream) Phase 2 To be notified later
SEBI Grade ‘A’ Information Technology Stream List of Selected Candidates To be notified later
Number of Vacancies To be notified later
Official Notification PDF [Click Here]

SEBI Grade A IT Eligibility Criteria

SEBI Grade A IT Officer is one of the most preferred posts by job aspirants. The candidates who are willing to apply for the next recruitment process should first make sure that they are eligible for the post. To be eligible for the Information Technology (IT) stream, you need to ensure that you fulfill the complete SEBI Grade A IT Officer eligibility criteria.

SEBI Grade A IT Educational Qualification

The candidates who are willing to apply for the post of SEBI Grade A Officer under the IT stream should possess certain educational qualifications to be eligible. To check out the complete eligibility requirements, refer to the table below.

StreamEducational Criteria
Information Technology
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering in any discipline
    OR
  • Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline with a post-graduate qualification (minimum 2 years duration) in computer application/ information technology from a recognized University/ Institute.

SEBI Grade  A Age criteria

All the candidates who are interested in applying to the post of SEBI Grade A IT Officer should be within the prescribed age limit. Refer to the table below for more details.

Name of the PostAge Criteria (as on June 30, 2022)
IT (Grade A) A candidate must not have exceeded the age of 30 years as on June 30, 2022 i.e., candidate must have been born on or after July 01, 1992.

SEBI Grade A Age Relaxation

SEBI provides a relaxation in the upper age limit to the candidates belonging to the reserved categories. The period of age relaxation will be different for different categories. The details of the age relaxation criteria have been provided below.

CategoryAge Relaxation
OBC (Non-Creamy Layer) 03 Years
SC/ST 05 Years
Ex-servicemen include Emergency Commissioned Officers/Short Service Commissioned Officers, who have rendered at least five years continuous Military Service and have been released a) on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year from December 31, 2021) 05 Years
PwBD (Persons with Benchmark Disabilities) General 10 Years
OBC 13 Years
SC/ST 15 Years

SEBI Grade A IT Vacancy

Since the SEBI Grade A notification –cy– is not out yet, let’s look at the recently concluded SEBI Grade A IT Officer vacancies of 2022. The table below shows the breakup of the SEBI Grade A IT vacancies 2022 vacancies.

StreamNumber of postsOut of which PwBD
UROBCSCSTEWSTotal
Information Technology 11 2* 3* 3* 1 8*
  • 1 (B & LV)
  • 1 (D & HH)*
  • 1 (LV)*
3 1 16
Total No. of Vacancies 11 5 4 3 1 24  
* Indicates backlog vacancies

SEBI Grade A IT Exam Pattern

Before doing anything, it is extremely important to know all the important details related to the exam such as the SEBI Grade A 2023 exam pattern. The selection process for SEBI Grade A IT & all other streams will consist of three main phases as mentioned below.

  • Phase 1 - Online examination
  • Phase 2 - Online examination
  • Phase 3 - Interview

Phase 1 Exam Pattern

SEBI Grade A Phase 1 for the IT recruitment process consists of an online examination that will be objective in nature. The online exam consists of two papers of 100 marks each, where Paper 1 will be common for all streams having multiple choice questions on various subjects, and Paper 2 will consist of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on the specialized subject related to the Information Technology stream.

PaperStream / SubjectMaximum MarksDuration(minutes)Cut Off(%)
Paper 1 All Streams: Multiple choice questions on the subjects viz. General Awareness (including some questions related to Financial Sector of easy to moderate difficulty level), English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and Test of Reasoning. 100 60 30%
Paper 2 Information Technology: Multiple choice questions on Specialized subject related to stream. 100 40 40%
Aggregate Cut off 40%

Note:

  • There will be a negative marking of 1/4th of the marks allotted to each question.
  • The paper will be available in both English and Hindi except for the test of English in Paper 1.

Phase 2 Exam Pattern

SEBI Grade A Phase 2 for the IT stream will consist of two papers carrying 100 marks each. Paper 1 will be Descriptive English which will be common for all the streams. Paper 2 will be a Coding Test. The SEBI Grade A IT Officer Phase 2 exam pattern has been given in the table below.

PaperStream / SubjectMaximum MarksDuration(minutes)Cut Off(%)Weightage
Paper 1 All streams: English (Descriptive Test) to test the drafting skills 100 60 30 1/3rd
Paper 2 Information Technology Stream: Coding Test (Languages: C++/JAVA/Python) 100 180 40 2/3rd

SEBI Grade A Interview

All the candidates who will clear SEBI Grade A Phase 2 will be called for the last and final stage i.e Interview. You have the option to choose either Hindi or English as your language medium for the Interview. The weightage of marks obtained in the SEBI Officer Grade A Phase 2 exam and Interview is 85:15.

SEBI Grade A IT Syllabus

Before you start your preparation for the exam, it is extremely important to take note of the SEBI Grade A IT Officer syllabus. This is because the SEBI Grade A Phase 1 IT stream contains questions from various subjects such as English Language, Reasoning, Quants, and General Awareness along with questions from the specialized subject of Information Technology. Let’s look at the SEBI Grade A IT Officer syllabus in detail.

Phase 1: Paper 1 Syllabus

Phase 1 of SEBI Grade A IT will consist of two papers where Paper 1 will be common for all streams and Paper 2 will contain questions from the specialized stream. SEBI Grade A IT Phase 1: Paper 1 syllabus is as follows.

SectionTopics
Quantitative Aptitude Simplification and approximation, Number Series, Quadratic Equation, Number System / HCF & LCM, Ratio and Proportion, Average, Partnership, Ages, Percentage, Profit & Loss, Time, Speed & Distance, Problems on Trains, Boat and Stream, Time & Work / Pipes and Cisterns, Simple and Compound Interest, Mixture & Allegations, Permutation and Combination, Probability, Data Interpretation (DI), Caselet DI and Data Sufficiency
English Grammar, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Passage Making, Error Spotting, Jumble Words, Sentence Framing, Fill in the blanks
General Awareness Monetary Policies, Banking and Financial Awareness, Economic Terms, Current Affairs, Static GK, Financial and Economic News, Government Schemes. Agreement & Deals, Banking Terms- rates & processes, National Institutions, BeePedia
Reasoning Puzzles, Seating Arrangement- Circular, Square & Linear, Data Sufficiency, Directions and Distance, Coding Decoding, Blood relations, Inequality, Syllogism, Machine input and output, Verbal Reasoning, Ordering and Ranking, Arrangement and Pattern, Scheduling, Distance and Direction, Ranking

Phase 1: Paper 2 Syllabus

Phase 1 Paper 2 of the SEBI Grade A 2023 exam comprises questions from the specialized subject, as it will be a stream-specific paper. The complete SEBI Grade A syllabus for IT Paper 2 is as follows.

DetailsWeightage
Database Concepts ER-model. Relational model: relational algebra, tuple calculus, Integrity constraints, normal forms. File organization, indexing (e.g., B and B+ trees), Transactions and concurrency control. 10
SQL Queries : Select, view, truncate, delete, update, alter, Inner join, different types of outer joins,, use of aggregate functions, Union, intersection, except, in and exist clauses, nested queries 10
Programming Concepts (Java /C C++ ): Program control (iteration, recursion, Functions), Scope of variables, Binding of variables & functions, Parameter passing, Functional and Logic Programming, OOPS Concepts, Inheritance, Class and object, Constructors, Functions, Exception Handling 30
Data Analytics Languages (Python / R): Regex, Slicing, Data reshaping, Dataframes, Dictionaries and Sets, File Management, Classes and Functions, Data Mining, Lists, Importing and exporting data, charts and graphs 10
Algorithms for problem solving: Tree and graph traversals, Connected components, Spanning trees, Shortest paths; hashing, Sorting, Searching; Design techniques (Greedy, Dynamic Programming, Divide-and-conquer) 10
Networking Concepts: ISO/OSI stack, LAN Technologies (Ethernet, Tokenring), TCP/UDP, IP, Basic concepts of switches, gateways, and routers, Application layer protocols (DNS, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP), Firewalls 10
Information & Cyber Security Concepts: Cyber Attacks, Software Development Security, Network security, Authentication, CIA - Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability, Network Audit, Systems Audit 10
Data warehousing: Data Extraction, Data Cleaning, Data Transformation, Data Loading, Metadata, Data Cube, Data Mart, Data Models 5
Shell Programming: Shell Scripting Basics, Shell Variables, Shell Script Arguments, If Statement, Loop, Return, Basic UNIX commands 5

SEBI Grade A Phase 2: Paper 1 Syllabus

Paper 1 in SEBI Grade A IT Phase 2 exam will be a Descriptive English test that will test the writing and drafting skills of the candidates. This paper will be common for all streams. To fare well in this test, one needs to also be adept in typing skills. Check out the complete SEBI Grade A Phase 2 syllabus below.

Descriptive Type
Essay Writing
English Comprehension & Precis Writing

Phase 2: Paper 2 Syllabus

Sl. No.TopicConceptLanguage used to test the conceptsWeightage*
1 Algorithms Sorting, Searching, Greedy Algorithms, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Divide and Conquer, Pattern Searching C++/JAVA/Python 40
2 Data Structure Array, Linked List, Stack, Queue, Binary Tree, Indexing, Binary Search Tree, Heap, Hashing, Matrix C++/JAVA/Python 40
3 String Manipulation Length, Substring, Regex, Search C++/JAVA/Python 20
Total 100
* - Weightages are indicative only

SEBI Grade A Books

Once you have noted down the complete exam syllabus, your next immediate step should be to get a hold of the resources that you will need to prepare for the exam. Books are one of the most important sources of information, and thus play a very crucial role in your exam preparation. Find some useful books for SEBI Grade A IT in the table below.

SubjectAuthor
Data structure Aron M Tenenbaum
Dbms Kurth and Sudarshan
Operating system Galvins
Networking Andrew S Tenenbaum
SQL mysql
Algorithms Thomas h comments
Oops for c++ and Java The complete reference
Software engineering Roger s pressman
Data warehousing Paulraj ponniah

SEBI Grade A IT Exam Dates

The SEBI Grade A 2023 notification for various posts is expected to be released soon. Moreover, we will know more about the other important dates such as SEBI online application window, SEBI Phase 1 exam and such once the notification is out. Check the timeline of the events below.

SEBI Grade A Exam Dates 2023

ActivityTentative Exam Dates
SEBI Grade A (IT) Online registration including Editing / Modification of Application by Candidates To be notified later
SEBI Grade A IT Phase 1 Online Examination Admit Card To be notified later
SEBI Grade A (IT) Phase 1 Online Examination and Paper 1 of Phase 2 Examination Date To be notified later
Roll Numbers of Selected Candidates - SEBI Grade A Recruitment (IT Stream) Phase 1 To be notified later
SEBI Grade A (IT) Paper 2 of Phase 2 Examination Date To be notified later
SEBI Grade A (IT) Phase 3 Interview Date To be notified later
Roll Numbers of Selected Candidates - SEBI Grade A Recruitment (General Stream) To be notified later
Roll Numbers of Selected Candidates - SEBI Grade A Recruitment (IT Stream) Phase 2 To be notified later
SEBI Grade ‘A’ Information Technology Stream List of Selected Candidates To be notified later

SEBI Grade A IT final result is out. The selected candidates' pdf is available on the official website.

SEBI Grade A IT Officer Salary

Being a large organization, SEBI provides attractive remuneration to its employees working as Grade A Officers. Apart from an attractive salary, SEBI Grade A Officer facilities include other benefits such as Leave Fare Concession, Medical Expenses, Eye Refraction, Education Allowance, Financial Dailies, etc. Find the complete details on SEBI Grade A salary for IT Officers below.

PostExisting SalaryRevised Salary
IT  Grade A Officer (Assistant Manager)
  • Pay Scale - Rs. 28150-1550(4)-34350-1750(7)-46600-EB1750(4)-53600-2000(1)-55600 (17 years).
  • Salary - Rs. 1,15,000 per month (without accommodation) and Rs. 80,500 monthly (with accommodation)
  • Benefits - Leave Fare Concession, Medical Expenses, Eye Refraction, Education Allowance, Financial Dailies, Book Grant, Briefcase, Conveyance Expenses, House Cleaning Allowance, Staff Furnishing Scheme, Scheme for Purchasing Computers, Subsidized Lunch Facility
  • Pay Scale - Rs. 44500-2500(4)-54500-2850(7)-74450-EB-2850(4)-85850—3300(1)-89150 (17 years)
  • Salary - Rs. 1,35,000 per month (Approx.)
  • Benefits - Special Pay, Special Functional Pay, Dearness Allowance, Local Allowance, City Compensatory Allowance, Family Allowance, Special Compensatory Allowance, Grade Allowance, Learning Allowance, Personal Fixed Allowance

Allowance

IT (Grade A Officer) AllowanceAmount (per month)
Special Pay Rs. 3,300/-
Special Functional Allowance Rs. 4000/-
Local Allowance Rs. 3,450/-
City Compensatory Allowance Rs. 2,500/-
Family Allowance Rs. 2,850/-
Special Compensatory Allowance
  • Up to Rs. 1,20,850/- - Rs. 500/-
  • Above Rs. 1,20,850/- - Rs. 625/-
Grade Allowance 14% of basic pay, subject to a minimum of Rs. 10,400/-
Special Allowance 16.4% of basic pay, subject to a minimum of Rs. 11,000/-
Learning Allowance Rs. 2,500/-
Personal Fixed Allowance Rs. 3,850/-

SEBI Grade A IT Officer Job Profile

The candidates who will get selected as SEBI Grade A Officers will have to serve a probation period of two years before becoming permanent. A SEBI Grade A Officer will be liable to be posted anywhere in the country wherever the offices of SEBI exist. The recruited officers may also be asked to serve any department irrespective of the stream he/she chooses. Some of the basic roles & responsibilities of a SEBI Grade A IT Officer are as follows-

  • Troubleshooting any communication or software issues that arise in the bank’s computers while working.
  • Taking security measures, testing & evaluating new technologies used by SEBI.
  • Taking care of the Data Centre, which is a crucial part where all the data is saved.

SEBI Grade A IT Previous Year Cut-off

You should check the SEBI Grade A cut-off for the Information Technology stream, which may give you a correct picture of the exam and the extent to which you need to prepare for it. It is always good to refer to the previous year cut-offs, to get an idea about the exam level. Check the SEBI Grade A previous year cutoff below.

SEBI Grade A 2022 Phase 2 Cut off

CategorySCSTOBC (NCL)EWSURPwBD (ID & MD)PwBD (VI)PwBD(HI)PwBD(LD)
Number of Vacancies 4 3 5 1 11 2 1
Candidates required for Phase III (Three times the vacancies) 12 9 15 3 33 6 3
Number of candidates shortlisted for Phase III 12 9 16 3 37
Minimum aggregate marks obtained by shortlisted candidates 71.33 57.33 84.67 85.34 85.34

SEBI Grade A 2022 Cutoffs applied on Papers

CategoryPwBD(LD)
Paper I 30%
Paper II 40%
Aggregate (Weighted score 100) 50%

SEBI Grade A 2022 - Minimum marks obtained by selected candidates

UnreservedOBC (NCL)EWSSCSTPwBD (VI)PwBD (HI)
55.78 No candidate qualified

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