Senior HotScan Technical Consultant

About the Role

Ejada is seeking a Senior HotScan Technical Consultant to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves leading the implementation, configuration, customization, integration, upgrade, and support of HotScan Sanctions Screening solutions within banking and financial services environments. The consultant will ensure the delivery of effective sanctions screening, customer screening, payment screening, and financial crime compliance capabilities, supporting regulatory requirements, operational efficiency, and fraud prevention objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end HotScan implementation, upgrade, enhancement, and support projects.
• Configure and administer HotScan environments across Development, UAT, DR, and Production.
• Conduct business and technical workshops to gather requirements and translate compliance needs into technical solutions.
• Configure sanctions screening modules for customer screening, transaction screening, payment screening, and trade finance screening processes.
• Design and implement screening workflows, matching algorithms, filtering rules, watchlists, and case management processes.
• Develop and maintain HotScan customizations, enhancements, and business-specific screening logic.
• Configure advanced matching, scoring, and false-positive reduction strategies to improve screening effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain custom reports, dashboards, operational metrics, and compliance reporting capabilities.
• Lead HotScan upgrade and migration activities, including version assessments, compatibility reviews, configuration migration, testing, and production rollout.
• Design and develop integrations between HotScan and enterprise banking systems such as Core Banking, CIF, Payment Systems, SWIFT, AML platforms, and Case Management solutions.
• Support API development, web services integration, batch interfaces, data mapping, and transformation activities.
• Perform system tuning, optimization, and performance improvements to ensure platform stability and screening efficiency.
• Support SIT, UAT, regression testing, performance testing, deployment activities, and post-go-live stabilization.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in HotScan Sanctions Screening solutions.
• Demonstrated experience in leading implementation, configuration, customization, integration, upgrade, and support projects for HotScan.
• Proficiency in configuring sanctions screening modules for various screening processes.
• Experience with system tuning, optimization, and performance improvements.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role operates within a dynamic environment focused on financial services and compliance.