Senior Consultant, Application - Risk & Compliance

Role: Senior Consultant, Application - Risk & Compliance
In Risk & Compliance the Senior Analyst is responsible for analysis, design, and development within the AML suite of applications. This is a multi-hatted role and the incumbent is expected to be a SME who will analyze requirements and opportunities, create component level designs, conduct data analysis, and have hands-on activity working on implementation (including coding and enhancing scripts, config as code, and debugging issues under production pressure). To be successful, candidate must have prior experience in implementing AML solutions, strong technical skills, and is responsible for enhancing and supporting data ingest/egress integrations within Compliance Applications.
Must have experience with modern software development, DevOps, AGILE, and production support. Must be hands-on developer and be able to assist team with application development tasks. Must strive to continuously develop new and improved technical capabilities. Applicants must also possess clear oral and written communication skills and demonstrate flexibility while working on multiple projects and initiatives concurrently.
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with SME and Business Analyst to build new End-to-End solution, lead tech team ensuring solutions meet all requirements, including operational SLAs.
• Address and triage escalated issues, at off hours from time to time due to 24x6 operational nature.
• Develop within AML products such as Fircosoft, Actimize, and Fraud
• Design and Architect Data Models.
• Conduct sessions with Business and vendor in order to report and troubleshoot issues
• Lead operational escalations from incident origination to close, plus any root cause, remediation, and prevention.
• Report incidents to management and stakeholders during incident lifecycle.
• Write and debug complex SQL queries from databases (such as Oracle).
• Participate in peer design reviews and provide recommendations.
• Improve operational stability via automation, such as autohealing where possible, and raise design changes to data analyst, SMEs and/or architects, as well as opportunities to application/service managers.
• Ensure all data mapping, data lineage, functional spec, and any other technical documentation are detailed and up to date.
• Ensure runbooks are fully up-to date and consistently improving the efficiency derived from automation
• Work some off hours as demanded by projects, operations, and need of the on-shore team and stakeholders, such as release, testing and/or critical bug resolutions.
• Provide US/EMEA overnight support on critical processes in AML program, such as data feed batch jobs, reports, Tier 0 critical real time OFAC application, etc. in a follow the sun model.
• Ensure handover of issues region to region with precise and concise handover daily shift notes.
• Support incidents management during incident lifecycle by resolving service stoppage and remediation activities as well as any post mortem actions.
• Support management in operational reporting on vendor issues, internal issues, partner team issues, and respective root causes.
• Communicate with systems, vendors, and partners regarding new technology/systems issues that would enhance current practices/maintain system availability and SLAs.

EXPERIENCE / SKILLS:
Must have:

• 7+ years of overall industry experience
• A College or University degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Solid technical background with at least 7 years of demonstrated track record in end-to-end software development life cycle and successful delivery of technical solutions using modern techniques
• Current domain working experience in AML Applications
• DevOps and CICD related experience
• Solid technical data analytics, design, and implementation experience
• Strong in SQL and Oracle schemas
• Experience with Data modeling, Data design, Data Architecture, Data Pipelines, Real Time Data Processing, streaming, networking, and security
• Experience working with XML transformation and consumption of messages from queues will be a big plus
• Hands on experience in Web Services, DataStage, and Java
• Solid experience with Unix scripting, low-code automation, and high-touch debugging and analysis of issues
• Web application architecture exposure, at a minimum from operational support role
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Current hands-on experience with Control-M
• High degree of independence and able to work effectively with low touch directions
• Good written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have:

• Current domain working experience in Fraud prevention applications
• ADO, ServiceNow, and Confluence
• Industry certification is preferred (such as DevOps, DataStage, Oracle, Java J2EE, etc.)
• Banking services experience is preferred

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