Solutions Design IT Specialist OFSAA

Job Title: Solutions Design IT Specialist OFSAA

Location: Remote

12+ Months Contract

Job Description:

• The OFSAA Transaction Monitoring Technology Lead is accountable for the technical design, build, and stability of the OFSAA Transaction Monitoring platform supporting enterprise AML programs.
• This role provides deep hands-on leadership across OFSAA, FCCM, ETL/IETL, Oracle, scheduling, and data pipelines, ensuring the platform is resilient, scalable, and compliant.
• The Tech Lead acts as the primary technical authority for Transaction Monitoring, driving architecture decisions, resolving complex production issues, and guiding engineering teams through platform changes, upgrades, and regulatory initiatives.

Core Responsibilities

• Technical Ownership & Architecture
• Own the end-to-end technical architecture of the OFSAA Transaction Monitoring platform (OFSAA, FCCM, Oracle DB, ETL, scheduling, integrations)
• Define and enforce technical standards, patterns, and best practices for TM processing, job orchestration, and data handling
• Evaluate and drive platform enhancements, performance optimizations, and modernization initiatives (e.g., cloud enablement, refactoring, re-engineering)
• OFSAA TM Engineering & Platform Build
• Lead hands-on engineering for OFSAA Transaction Monitoring jobs, including ER, TM, reconciliation, validation, and supporting batch processes
• Design and maintain AutoSys job flows, dependencies, restartability, and recovery strategies
• Provide deep technical guidance on Oracle SQL, partitioning, statistics collection, and performance tuning
• Review and approve TM technical designs, runbooks, and implementation artifacts
• Production Support & Complex Issue Resolution
• Act as the highest-level technical escalation point for OFSAA TM production incidents
• Perform root-cause analysis across OFSAA, ETL/IETL, Oracle DB, file ingestion, and scheduling layers
• Design permanent fixes for recurring issues, data breaks, and performance bottlenecks
• Proactively identify and remediate technical risks before they impact AML operations
• Data Quality, Controls & Reconciliation
• Design and oversee technical data quality controls, validations, and reconciliations feeding TM scenarios
• Ensure technical integrity between source systems, staging layers, and OFSAA TM tables
• Partner with data and controls teams to embed preventive and detective controls directly into TM pipelines
• Change Delivery & Regulatory Initiatives
• Lead technical delivery for scenario changes, tuning, threshold updates, lookbacks, and regulatory commitments
• Drive TM changes through SDLC with strong focus on testability, traceability, and audit readiness
• Support audits, exams, and model risk reviews by providing technical explanations, evidence, and system traceability

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Provide hands-on technical leadership to engineers, developers, and vendor teams
• Review code, SQL, job definitions, and technical solutions
• Mentor team members on OFSAA TM internals, AML platform design, and production engineering best practices
• Act as the technical bridge between AML stakeholders and engineering teams
• Required Technical Skills & Experience
• OFSAA / AML Platforms
• Strong hands-on experience with Oracle OFSAA Transaction Monitoring / FCCM TM
• Deep understanding of TM batch processing, entity resolution, alert generation, and lookbacks
• Experience supporting enterprise AML Transaction Monitoring in a regulated environment

Engineering & Infrastructure

• Advanced Oracle SQL, performance tuning, partitioning, and database troubleshooting
• Strong experience with AutoSys or equivalent enterprise schedulers
• Experience with ETL / IETL / Informatica, file ingestion, and reconciliation frameworks
• Solid understanding of Linux scripting, batch operations, and production support tooling
• Delivery & Problem Solving
• Proven ability to solve complex, cross-platform technical problems under production pressure
• Experience leading technical design and delivery in large, regulated environments
• Strong documentation and communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience modernizing or migrating OFSAA / TM workloads to cloud platforms
• Exposure to high-volume payments or real-time monitoring platforms
• Prior experience working closely with regulators, auditors, or model risk teams from a technology perspective

Education: At least a bachelor s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, or a closely related field is required for the project