Senior Lead, Account Services & Liquidity First Abu Dhabi Bank FAB

Partner with Principal Engineers/Architects to ensure target and transitional architectures are implemented as designed (policy as code, paved road reuse).

Guide squads on microservices/APIs, ISO 20022 (camt.052/053/054; pain.001/002), SWIFT MT9xx migration, eventing (Kafka), and data contracts for balances, statements, and liquidity positions.

Champion DevSecOps: CI/CD quality gates (SAST/DAST/SCA), IaC, observability (metrics/logs/traces), performance budgets, and resilience patterns.

Own the end to end vendor relationship and solution delivery hands on: review designs and interface/API specs, validate conformance to architecture guardrails, security standards, and NFRs; participate in design reviews, demos, UAT sign offs, and readiness checks.

Align delivery to business requirements and OKRs: translate BRDs/epics into clear scope, acceptance criteria, and milestones with vendors; synchronize quarterly plans and releases to value stream priorities.

Budget ownership & financial governance: build/manage CAPEX/OPEX baselines for multi country delivery; run monthly forecast vs. actuals, variance analysis, and burn up vs. milestones; tie invoice approvals to deliverable acceptance; drive cost optimizations (reuse, platform adoption, vendor consolidation).

Commercials & contracts: lead SOW definition, change control and CRs with quantified benefits/TCO; manage rate cards, milestones, and incentive/penalty clauses; coordinate with Procurement/Legal on renewals, DPAs, and security addenda.

Business relationship management (BRM): act as the primary business counterpart for Account Services & Liquidity; run steer co updates, maintain exec ready dashboards (delivery, risk, spend, benefits), and manage expectation setting and scope trade offs; capture feedback/NPS and close the loop.

Performance & value realization: define/monitor KPIs/SLOs (quality, timeliness, compliance, cost); run QBRs with vendors and business; track benefit realization (pooling effectiveness, statement timeliness, STP%); escalate systemic issues with remediation owners and dates.

Knowledge transfer & run readiness: enforce complete runbooks, KT plans, and 24x7 support readiness; ensure Ops/on call teams have dashboards, alerts, and playbooks before handover.

Continuously scan for AI/automation opportunities across the value stream (e.g., statement reconciliation, anomaly detection, liquidity forecasting); prioritize use cases with clear controls and ROI.

Good to know: Blockchain/DLT and virtual asset concepts that may impact cash & liquidity (e.g., tokenized deposits, programmable payments, CBDC corridors, digital asset custody); advise pragmatically on when to watch/partner/experiment.

Maintain a single plan of record; publish transparent RAID; own go/no go criteria tied to NFR and business acceptance evidence.

Ensure change, release, and production access controls are followed; maintain audit ready evidence repositories; close findings within SLA.

Run cutover rehearsals and hypercare; lead incident response (Sev 1/2) and RCAs; institutionalize learnings via fitness functions.

Align Business Owners, Product, Service Lines (Product Owner , Platform, Core, Treasury/GM), Operations, Compliance, and Finance across markets.

Coach engineers and analysts; foster a positive, collaborative culture with shared ownership and high accountability.

• Translate value stream strategy and Commercial Priorities into a sequenced roadmap for Account Services (statements, advices, account opening/maintenance, reporting) and Liquidity (physical/notional pooling, sweeping, VAM).

• Own country enablement playbooks: regulatory calendars, clearing cut offs, settlement windows, currency/tax rules, interest posting, and local rails alignment.

• Lead PI/quarterly planning; manage cross country dependencies, capacity, and critical milestones (readiness, dry runs, dress rehearsals).