Design Architech Firco | Opportunity with Leading UAE Bank

Design Architect Firco | Opportunity with Leading UAE Bank

Job Description: Design Architect Firco

ROLE PURPOSE And RESPONSIBILITIES
This role has the responsibility to manage the Firco service line projects and BAU initiatives for the bank in a multi-jurisdiction environment. As such, it needs domain understanding of Payments and Name screening system.

• Implementation experience of Payments screening and Name screening
• Strong knowledge in Compliance systems (Screening system)
• Design, develop and implement Firco screening solutions in complex banking environments
• Integrate screening solutions with core banking applications and complex data structures
• Ensure customer reporting requirements, both compliance and regulatory, are addressed
• Develop, communicate, maintain, and enforce the overall architecture of the Firco solutions at assigned clients
• Understand all solution components and how they inter-operate to support business processes and management information needs
• Responsibility for interface and integration strategies with external systems and processes
• Must have experience implementing and integrating Firco solutions with a variety of banking applications and solutions
• Must be able to prepare Design and Architecture artifacts
• Experience implementing Firco screening solutions integrated to Oracle database and experience in Cloud based architecture setup is an added advantage
• 10-15 years of experience within Banking IT domain with at least 10 years in the Screening domain
• Experience working in diverse environment with different vendors, onsite/offshore teams etc.
• Banking industry knowledge will be an added asset

KEY STAKEHOLDERS

• Group Compliance
• IT Compliance service teams
• IT cross functional teams
• Scrum team and Product owner
• IT PMO
• IT Support and Infra
• Technology vendors
• Well run project in collaboration with the internal teams, business and Vendor Management teams
• High customer satisfaction
• Adherence to project management principles

Knowledge & Experience:

• 10 - 15 years of Professional work experience in Banking IT experience in the compliance domain specifically in designing Payment and customer screening solution using Firco Continuity, Firco Trust and Firco Screen and Keep (FSK)
• Must have experience of documenting solution document and architecture between source and Firco screening
• Must have experience of integrating Firco Continuity with multiple payment gateways in multiple countries
• Must be well versed with the message formats of payment gateways such as SWIFT, UAEFTS, local gateways in UK, France, India, GCC, etc.
• Must be able to conduct walkthrough of the design document with various stakeholders for review and sign off
• Must be proficient in the use of tools such as MS Visio
• To consult with the Enterprise Architecture practice to ensure that the service is aligned with Bank architectural patterns
• Ensure that SDLC procedures defined for Requirements and Solution Design within the domain/service/application/feature are followed
• Prior experience of compliance domain would be an added advantage (Firco screening area)
• Good communication skills & stakeholder handling skills

Skills:

• Good knowledge of compliance domain and project management
• Risk mitigation, stakeholder management and change management
• Change authority board approval and go live
• Knowledge about AWS/Azure cloud is an advantage
• Strong ability to influence & lead internal teams, to deliver ongoing initiatives
• Working experience with JIRA, Confluence etc.
• Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to work in both waterfall and SCRUM delivery models