We are looking for two experienced professionals in the following areas:
- Application Support – Core Banking:
One resource with strong experience in core banking systems to assist with the maintenance, troubleshooting, and enhancement of our core banking applications.
- Application Support – Compliance/Risk Monitoring:
One resource with expertise in compliance and risk monitoring applications to ensure with the maintenance, troubleshooting, and enhancement of our compliance application.
Key Responsibilities
System Administration & Support:
- Provide L2/L3 technical support for the NICE Actimize suite (e.g., ACT One, Watchlist Compliance, SAM, ERCM, IFM-X) in a 24/7 banking environment.
- Monitor system health, performance, and batch job processing (e.g., scenario execution, case management workflows).
- Investigate, diagnose, and resolve complex technical incidents and service requests related to application errors, data feed issues, and user access.
- Perform routine application maintenance, including patching, upgrades, and environment refreshes in coordination with the infrastructure team.
Configuration & Business Rule Management:
- Implement and test changes to scenario tuning, rules, parameters, and risk models within the Actimize platform as directed by the Compliance team.
- Support the back-testing and calibration of fraud and AML scenarios to optimize alert quality and reduce false positives.
- Manage reference data, watchlists, and other static data configurations within the systems.
Data Integration & Analysis:
- Troubleshoot and support real-time and batch data feeds from core banking systems (transactions, customer data) into Actimize.
- Write basic SQL queries to investigate data discrepancies, validate feed completeness, and support ad-hoc data analysis for the business.
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to resolve data pipeline issues affecting Actimize.
Stakeholder Collaboration & Documentation:
- Act as a liaison between IT infrastructure, application vendors (NICE), and business users (Compliance/Fraud Investigators).
- Create and maintain detailed technical documentation, including system configurations, support procedures, and knowledge base articles.
- Provide training and guidance to L1 support staff and end-users on system functionality and best practices.
Qualifications & Experience
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Finance, or a related field.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience administering, configuring, and supporting the NICE Actimize platform in a banking or financial services environment.
- Strong understanding of AML and Fraud typologies, scenarios, and investigative processes.
- Proven experience with SQL for data querying and analysis.
- Solid understanding of Unix/Linux commands and basic shell scripting.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with a keen attention to detail.
Highly Desirable:
- NICE Actimize professional certifications (e.g., Certified Administrator).
- Experience with other financial crime systems (e.g., Oracle Mantas, SAS AML, Featurespace).
- Knowledge of UAE banking systems and payment networks (SWIFT, IPI/FTS, NPSS, WPS etc.).
- Familiarity with ITIL framework principles (Incident, Problem, Change Management).