Backend Services and Integration Manager
Saudi Fransi Capital
Total years of experience :10 years, 10 Months
Infrastructure management for Development, UAT, Production and DRC environments.
Managed and co-ordinate with various business teams authored business requirements, lead requirements elicitation sessions including requirement analysis.
Communicated with vendors for efficient developments and enhancements to fulfill the business requirements to get the end result functionality in maximum optimum results.
Managing the complete change management process for the assigned BR including normal and fast track.
Managing the middleware system of Saudi Fransi Capital which is integrated with bank financial services.
Manage IT resource requirements to ensure appropriate balance between tactical and strategic requirements.
Manage complete connectivity of Saudi Stock Exchange Tadawul with many of Saudi Fransi Capital internal systems such as OMS, XW, CCP, CSD, SFTP, FIX, FIXML, TIP and AP monitoring system for compliance.
Deployment management for Development, UAT, Production and DR environments.
Managed third party FIX connectivity's with Reuters(Refinitiv), Bloomberg, Front Arena(FIS) and Zag Trader.
Participate in annaul budgeting process and IT strategy planning activities.
Co-ordinate all technical activities between Saudi Fransi Capital, Saudi Stock Exchange Tadawul and Banque Saudi Fransi.
Ensuring the availability of the infrastructure to facilitate project management team and quality control team to conduct user acceptance tests(UAT) for core applications.
Managing and monitoring of daily batch processes which includes mutual fund batch, trade settlement batch, financial transactions batch and data archiving batch.
Organizing and supervising the DR activities for system and applications.
Coordinate and participate with Saudi Stock Exchange Tadawul for their activities like failover test, switching of FIX connectivity from primary to secondary and DR test.
Coordination with the Vendor's to facilitate them with the deployments and provide multiple environments/infrastructures for their applications.
Production support and vendor coordination of order management system for local and international brokerage.
Supervising the migration of SFC infrastructure to oracle cloud(OCI), including applications and databases.
Facilitating MWAT (Market Wide Acceptance Test) testing in collaboration with the QC team and users during the launch of any new product by the Saudi Stock Exchange Tadawul.
Participation in annual security risk assessment for internal and vendor applications.
Participation in all audit missions; internal and external audits.
Dedicated participation in all BCM activities including DR activities for Saudi Fransi Capital and Bank, ensure the BCP site readiness, ensure availability of all mission critical applications.
Participation in conducting business impact analysis ( BIA) for all applications and coordinate with the technical teams to prepare the run book.
Perform analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of thr requirements.
Manage multiple tasks and project deliverables.
Lead and assist in the development of new propositions and business development.
Develops and enforces best practices to improve performance efficiency.
Provides system training and support to user after project implementation.
Production support.
Prepare and review system documentation composed by development team.
Perform modifications to and maintenance of operational programs and procedures.
Applies best practices for tuning of overall system performance.
Extensive experience with managing and resolving problems on a live production system.
Solid understanding of SQL performance tuning techniques, including query plan understanding and management, SQL tracing, indexing techniques etc.
Conduct technical design review meetings with system analysts and QA team and seek approval for development.
Perform and document unit testing and work with QA testers yo develop and run test plans.
Perform regression testing by following standard test plans.
Participate in code reviews, identify/troubleshoot code-related issues, review and provide feedback to any required final user documentation.
Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) from Oracle Corp. specialization in SQL and PL/SQL.
Masters in Business Administration (MBA) with Specialization in Finance & Marketing from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.
B.Sc (Faculty of Engineering) as Computer Science & Engg. from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.