Platform Owner - Leading Financial Institution

Tandem Search

Dubai, UAE

Ref: KP709-2581

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Platform Owner - Cards - Leading Financial Institution - Dubai
Platform Owner – Cards
Reports To VP Platform – Integration

The Platform owner – Cards will be heading the Cards technology team within the Integration Platform unit. This entails working in classical waterfall software development methodology and involves management of a number of Software
Engineers including vendor teams.The Platform Owner cards should apply extensive knowledge of cards related technologies and business processes to satisfy business requirements in a dynamic and agile environment. In this position he coordinates and manages various product teams that will consist of Software Engineers, Solution Architects and drives successful delivery of projects in the area of Cards in line with quality, time and cost targets.

Requirements

- Graduate / Post graduate in related degree of education

- General banking and business area knowledge is necessary inorder to steer necessary implementations according to bank strategy. Additional deep UAE-specific knowledge of the business requirements for the underlying card management system as well as current regulatory topics and responsibilities preferred.

- Experience in applying waterfall implementation methodology along with corresponding project management methodology (capacity planning, vendor management, medium scale development coordination) which also comprises management of interfaces and dependencies to other platform teams and also in connection with the agile teams. Additional overview of current testing practices and infrastructure requirements relevant.

- Expertise in relevant technology, implementation and use cases as well as deep knowledge of tools used in the bank specifically in the transactional areas in the scope of Cards technology.

- Knowledge of Way4, Card products and services.
- Experience of Credit Card Portfolio and related APIs
- Good understanding and experience of Credit Cards from either Issuer or Acquirer perspective.
- Awareness of financial processes like End-of- day, Start of day, payment files is preferable.
- Knowledge of VisionPlus is an advantage
- Knowledge of EFT Switches, Card Schemes, any of the core banking applications and ISO messaging formats will be an added advantage.
- Knowledge of Micro services, TIBCO, XML and JSONwill also be an added advantage.
- Conceptual Thinking, Strategic Orientation, Team
- Leadership, Analytical Thinking, Innovation, Flexibility,
- Integrity
- Leadership experience with team size exceeding 10–15
- Self-motivated and goal oriented individual
- Clear and demonstrative communication

About the Company

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