SAS AML Techno Functional Consultant (AML / TBML) - Design Architect

Overview

SAS AML Techno Functional Consultant (AML / TBML) - Design Architect

This role involves managing compliance projects and Anti Money Laundering (AML) initiatives for a bank in a multi-jurisdiction environment. It requires domain understanding of transactions and trade monitoring systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage compliance projects and BAU initiatives for AML in multi-jurisdiction environments.
• Implementation experience of AML (Anti Money Laundering) / TBML (Trade Based Money Laundering) solutions (SAS AML, Norkom, Ace Pelican).
• Strong knowledge of compliance systems (transaction monitoring).
• Design, develop and implement SAS AML / Ace Pelican solutions in complex banking environments.
• Integrate SAS AML / Ace Pelican with core banking applications and complex data structures.
• Ensure customer reporting requirements, both compliance and regulatory, are addressed.
• Enhance SAS AML / Ace Pelican solutions to reduce false positives and improve business processes.
• Develop, communicate, maintain, and enforce the overall architecture of the SAS AML / Ace Pelican environments at assigned clients.
• Understand solution components and how they interoperate to support business processes and management information needs.
• Interface and integration strategies with external systems and processes.
• Experience implementing and integrating SAS AML / Ace Pelican with a variety of banking applications and solutions.
• Map data from source systems (e.g., core banking, onboarding and mobile applications) to the SAS AML / Ace Pelican model.
• Prepare design and architecture artefacts.
• Experience implementing SAS AML / Ace Pelican solutions integrated to Oracle, DB2 and SQL databases as well as Hadoop and Data Lake environments.
• 8-10 years of experience within Banking IT domain with at least 5 years in the AML domain.
• Experience working in diverse environments with different vendors, onsite/offshore teams, etc.
• Banking industry knowledge is an added asset.

Knowledge & Experience

• The candidate should possess University degree in Economics/Commerce/Business Administration/MIS/IT/Computer Science.
• Professional work experience in Bank or IT Company for 10 years.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in AML/TBML projects implementation in a Compliance domain.
• Proven ability to work on transaction monitoring domain from multiple jurisdictions and experience in successful project management & execution around transaction monitoring, sanctions and regulatory compliance.
• Mandatory Experience of end-to-end implementation of SAS AML / Ace Pelican products.
• Proficiency in project management and team coordination to deliver tasks on time.
• Professional certifications in SAS, ACAMS is preferable.

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.
• Proven project delivery track.
• Strong ability to influence & lead internal teams to deliver ongoing initiatives.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence etc.
• Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work in both waterfall and SCRUM delivery models.

Seniority level

• Not Applicable

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates