Responsibilities:
API & Systems Integration: Define, document, and map technical integration specifications (REST APIs, JSON payloads) between Watchlist Management tools and core banking, CRM, and onboarding platforms.
Watchlist Data Engineering: Configure systems to ingest, normalize, and reconcile structured and unstructured global watchlist data (Sanctions, PEP, Adverse Media) along with internal lists.
Event Architecture & Alerting: Design event-driven workflows to enable real-time or near real-time alert generation for downstream case management systems (e.g., Detica, Actimize).
System Calibration & Tuning: Develop and optimize fuzzy matching rules, filtering logic, and screening parameters to reduce false positives while maintaining regulatory compliance.
Data Quality & Governance: Establish data quality frameworks, validation rules, and lineage controls to ensure accuracy, completeness, and traceability of screening data.
Regulatory Compliance Alignment: Ensure solutions adhere to AML/CFT regulations (e.g., MAS, FATF, OFAC) and support audits and regulatory reporting requirements.
Technical Documentation: Prepare Functional Specification Documents (FSDs), architecture diagrams, API data dictionaries, user stories, and process flows.
UAT & Testing Governance: Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing, and validation activities for system upgrades and enhancements.
Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with Compliance, Risk, Operations, Technology teams, and external vendors to gather requirements and drive alignment.
Issue Resolution & Risk Management: Identify, track, and resolve issues, risks, and integration challenges impacting AML screening and compliance processes.
Process Optimization: Continuously improve screening workflows, reduce manual intervention, and enhance operational efficiency.
Training & User Enablement: Create training materials and support end-users during rollouts, upgrades, and process changes.
Data Privacy & Security Compliance: Ensure adherence to data protection and privacy regulations (e.g., PDPA, GDPR) in handling sensitive data.
Solutioning & Architecture Alignment: Bridge regulatory requirements with technical design, ensuring scalable, high-performance, and low-latency AML screening solutions.
Experience:
Minimum 4 years of working experience in application testing, development and delivery.
Minimum 6 years of functional experience within Financial Crime, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), or Sanctions compliance technology.
Good understanding and experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
A strong & assertive communicator in speaking & writing Analytical mindset and good problem-solving skills.
Strong capability to write complex SQL queries, understand relational database schemas, and map data attributes across legacy and modern platforms.
Understanding of fuzzy matching principles, string-matching algorithms, and name screening data architectures
Good to have: Proficiency with REST APIs, JSON formats.
R Systems, founded in 1993, is a specialized IT Services & Solutions and IT-enabled Services provider catering to a wide range of global customers. We are endowed with some of the industry’s highest quality certifications and standards, including CMMI Level 5, PCMM Level 5, ISO 27001:2013 and ISO 9001:2008. Our IT services and solutions span five major verticals which include Telecom & Digital Media, Banking & Finance, HealthCare, Manufacturing & Logistics, and Government Services.
Ever since our inception, we have grown in size and capability and currently operate from 11 development and service centers spread across Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America. We serve customers worldwide using our global delivery model and 2050+ expert resources. We have won countless accolades from global customers for our benchmarked delivery track record, quality standards, and adaptability to technological challenges.
Our strength lies in our quality procedures, delivery and operational excellence, customer-centric approach, intellectual capital, and culture of innovation. With a rich legacy spread over two decades, we generate Value that helps organizations transcend to higher levels of efficiency and growth. Quite like the Oyster Delivering the Pearl!