Team Lead Trade Finance

About the Role

Luxoft is seeking a Team Lead – Trade Finance to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves bridging business stakeholders and technology teams on Finastra Trade Innovation implementations, upgrades, and enhancements. The successful candidate will manage requirements end-to-end, from current-state analysis and fit-gap through configuration support, testing, and go-live.

Role Context and Responsibilities

This position requires a deep understanding of trade products and ICC rules, similar to an operations user, combined with comprehensive knowledge of Trade Innovation's product modules, static data, and integrations to develop practical solutions. The Team Lead will be responsible for a range of activities supporting trade finance system operations and development.

• 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 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.

Experience and Qualifications

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in trade finance and Finastra Trade Innovation implementations. A strong understanding of trade products, ICC rules, and operational user perspectives is essential.

Required Skills

• Proficiency in Finastra Trade Innovation product modules, static data, and integrations.
• Ability to define and implement product setups, interfaces, and SWIFT message mappings.
• Experience in data migration support, test scenario preparation, and defect triage.
• Knowledge of trade rules, regulatory reporting, and compliance requirements (AML, sanctions).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for incident management and root cause analysis.
• Capability to manage production releases, change control, and system maintenance.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within a dynamic team focused on financial technology solutions.