Trade Finance Lead_SAUDI

About the Role

Astek Middle East is seeking an experienced Trade Finance Lead to join our team in Al Khobar, Eastern region. This full-time role involves driving the delivery, development, implementation, and ongoing support of financial applications within a banking environment. The position requires 2-5 years of relevant experience and focuses on ensuring the reliability, performance, security, and continuous improvement of critical financial applications while supporting business requirements and regulatory standards.

Role Context

This role combines financial platform expertise with hands-on technical problem-solving, application lifecycle management, and collaboration across business, IT, infrastructure, QA, and external technology partners. The successful candidate will be instrumental in managing financial applications from delivery through production support, ensuring optimal platform performance and availability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead requirements gathering, analysis, solution design, development, implementation, and maintenance of financial applications.
• Manage the application lifecycle from delivery through production support, ensuring platform performance, availability, and continuous optimization.
• Lead second-level application support, including incident investigation, root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, resolution, and vendor escalation.
• Coordinate application testing, defect resolution, system enhancements, and deployments within agreed timelines.
• Collaborate with business and operations teams, QA, IT support, infrastructure, systems integration teams, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Provide technical direction on application design, development, integration, and implementation.
• Review technical deliverables and guide teams through development, testing, and deployment activities.
• Ensure application changes comply with internal controls, audit requirements, security standards, and PCI-DSS requirements.
• Coordinate infrastructure and capacity requirements to maintain application stability, performance, and availability.
• Support technical certification, regulatory compliance, knowledge transfer, and team development.
• Participate in planned or urgent out-of-hours support and system deployments when required.

Qualifications and Experience

• 2-5 years of experience in a similar role within financial application management.
• Demonstrated expertise in financial platforms and application lifecycle management.
• Proven ability to lead technical problem-solving and collaborate effectively across diverse teams and external partners.

Indicators of Success

• Delivery of reliable, secure, and fit-for-purpose financial applications.
• Effective incident resolution and timely delivery of application changes.
• Continuous improvement in platform performance and operational efficiency.
• Strong coordination between business stakeholders, technical teams, and external vendors.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. The role involves working within a dynamic banking environment, requiring collaboration with various internal departments and external technology partners.