Team Lead Trade Finance

About the Role

Luxoft is seeking a Team Lead – Trade Finance to join our team in Riyadh. This full-time role involves acting as a bridge between business stakeholders and technology teams, focusing on Finastra Trade Innovation implementations, upgrades, and enhancements. The successful candidate will manage requirements from end-to-end, covering current-state analysis, fit-gap analysis, configuration support, testing, and go-live activities. The ideal candidate will possess deep knowledge of trade products, ICC rules, and Finastra Trade Innovation's product modules, static data, and integration capabilities to develop practical solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Define product setup within the trade system, including 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 efforts 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.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in a relevant field.
• Strong understanding of trade products and ICC rules from an operations user perspective.
• Proficiency with Finastra Trade Innovation's product modules, static data, and integration capabilities.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.