Team Lead Trade Finance (Finastra Trade Innovation)

About the Role

Luxoft is seeking a Team Lead – Trade Finance with expertise in Finastra Trade Innovation. This full-time role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and involves bridging business stakeholders and technology teams for implementations, upgrades, and enhancements of the Finastra Trade Innovation system. The Team Lead will manage requirements from initial analysis through to go-live.

Role Context and Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of requirements, including current-state analysis, fit-gap analysis, configuration support, testing, and go-live activities. This position requires a strong understanding of trade products, ICC rules, and the operational aspects of trade finance, alongside in-depth knowledge of Trade Innovation's product modules, static data, and integration capabilities to develop practical solutions.

• Define product setup within the trade system, encompassing product types, events, steps, static data, charges, tariffs, accounting postings, and workflows.
• Specify interfaces between the trade system and core banking, limits/credit, general ledger, payments, sanctions screening, document management, and corporate channels.
• Define SWIFT message mappings for MT7xx, MT4xx, and MT798 (corporate-to-bank) flows, including validation rules.
• Support data migration by mapping legacy transactions, establishing reconciliation rules, and planning cut-over activities.
• Prepare test scenarios covering complete transaction lifecycles, such as issue, amendment, document presentation, discrepancies, payment, settlement, and expiry.
• Support system integration testing, coordinate user acceptance testing with operations users, and triage defects with development and vendor teams.
• Contribute to version upgrades, regression testing, and provide production support for complex functional issues.
• Act as the functional liaison for business users, vendors, and delivery teams.
• Ensure solutions comply with trade rules, regulatory reporting, and internal compliance requirements including AML, sanctions, and trade-based money laundering controls.
• Produce training materials, user guides, and release notes; conduct knowledge-transfer sessions.
• Manage incident and problem resolution by logging, categorizing, tracking, reproducing, diagnosing, and resolving issues, including root cause analysis and post-incident reporting.
• Monitor system health, transaction flows, interfaces, end-of-day processing, and batch jobs; oversee failure recovery and detect anomalies to prevent business impact.
• Perform configuration changes and parameter maintenance to support new products, mandates, and regulatory updates.
• Manage production releases and change control processes; apply and test fixes, patches, and minor enhancements; support maintenance across production and non-production environments.

Required Experience and Skills

• 5-10 years of experience in a relevant field.
• Strong knowledge of trade products and ICC rules from an operations user perspective.
• Proficiency with Finastra Trade Innovation's product modules, static data, and integration capabilities.
• Ability to shape practical solutions based on system knowledge.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within a dynamic environment focused on financial technology implementations.